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Posted on 08/31/2009 2:44:46 PM PDT by jeltz25
Saw this article on supposed conservative intelletcual David Brooks and it was nauseating. This guy is the chief conservative columnist at the NYT and he makes Chris Matthews look like an amateur in his love for all things Obama.
Among his greatest hits: That first encounter is still vivid in Brooks’s mind. “I remember distinctly an image of--we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant,” Brooks says, “and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.” In the fall of 2006, two days after Obama’s The Audacity of Hope hit bookstores, Brooks published a glowing Times column. The headline was “Run, Barack, Run.”
“My overall view,” Brooks told me, “is ninety-five percent of the decisions they make are good and intelligent. Whether I agree with them specifically, I think they’re very serious and very good at what they do.”
and lastly
“I divide people into people who talk like us and who don’t talk like us,” he explains. “Of recent presidents, Clinton could sort of talk like us, but Obama is definitely--you could see him as a New Republic writer. He can do the jurisprudence, he can do the political philosophy, and he can do the politics. I think he’s more talented than anyone in my lifetime. I mean, he is pretty dazzling when he walks into a room
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Will you please allow me to add a “Tingly Leg” alert to your most interesting post?
May we be blunt? I don’t think it David Brook’s leg that tingling.
Brooks is a “NYT’s Conservative” which means he’s a centrist liberal playing the “other side” as a foil for the liberals. No kidding either, has any of us ever quoted David Brooks to substantiate our view or as a bulwark against leftist thought? Of course not.
David Brooks, where was he anyway before the NYT’s made him their very own William Safire (?), is a media created straw man to give the “conservative” viewpoint in a mocking tone. Let’s not be fooled.
Thanks so much for THAT mental image! :) I have you seen what Axelrod looks like? Not exactly every young girl’s dream.
So I decided to click on and read the article and I’m catching the talking point among the lefties and TV commentators who want to help Barack Obama. The talking point is that David Brooks is more in favor of Obama than Paul Krugman. Let’s not be fooled by that silliness either. Brooks is center-right (I say liberal) but he’s classified that way. Paul Krugman is an out and out Keynsian and socialist leaning guy so he’s never going to part from Obama.
If Brooks thinks (thought) Obama understood political theory better than he did, then he’s either trying to lie to us or he’s a fool because I never saw Obama as particularly persuasive.
He loves the crease in Bambi’s mom jeans? Gimme a break.
Exactly how does David Brooks qualify as conservative, anyway?
However, you do notice one thing: “He talks like us”- “us” being the children of privilege. That’s essentially what Bambi was, which is one of the reasons he sounds so silly when he tries to affect a ghetto black accent, but it’s also the things that sells him to all the other members of the Red upper class.
Sorry - me again - but since when do conservatives worry about rising inequality? I worry about the loss of freedom and the rise of greater government control of the free market. Income inequality is a byproduct of freedom. No conservative should even consider that an issue.
Top Ten Other Reasons David Brooks So Enthuses Over Obama
—Ace
10. Quote: “That guy can really fill out a pair of Hagar’s”
9. Spends hours dreamily scripting the name “David Brooks-Obama” on the cover of his Trapper Keeper
8. Obama almost never says “imply” when he means “infer”
7. Three words: Throbbing. Engorged. Deficits.
6. Has never gotten over childhood trauma of not being sexually assaulted while in boys’ boarding school; looks to Obama as sensitive, caring pedophile English teacher he never had
5. He’s “our kind of chap,” by which we mean “guy looks like he’s walking around with a fungo bat between his legs”
4. Has most important prerequisite for president — a “first-class badonkadonk,” much like Millard Fillmore
3. Soft artists’ hands are gentle and comforting, and yet insistent and demanding
2. Was taken with Obama’s clever reworking of a line by Edmund Burke: “Was your father a thief? Because he stole the stars and put them in your eyes.”
...and the Number One Other Reason David Brooks is So Enthused with Barack Obama...
1. Every time Obama walks into a room, Brooks experiences a full-spectrum sensation that can only be described as “having an epileptic orgasm while listening to Lincoln’s Gettysburg address as if it were mixed using Phil Spector’s ‘Wall of Sound’ technique”
Dramatic Reenactment: Of when David met Barack. Mild Content Warning (Anchorman).
Posted by Ace at 04:37 PM New Comments Thingy
"Oh...he looks like he should be someone else."
Now I laugh whenever I see him...
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LOL,
When I read this, I had a vision of the Secret Service having to drag a human "humping dog" off of Obama's "perfectly creased" pant leg.
I am not sure if liberals can't tell what a conservative is. Or if they just didn't want one on TV. And what is with David's Teeth?
I keep repeating this story but it is true and I think David Brooks
should be fired for it. On a NYTs blog, David referred to a well-placed
friend who was able to get him VIP tickets to see his hero,
Bruce Springsteen. Brooks failed to mention that Rahm
Emmanuel was the good, well placed friend. He has been
beside himself in his adoration of this administration.
He needs to be called out on it by some top Republicans.
Axelrod scares me.
Does he actually think up all this radical stuff, or just pass it along from Soros think tanks?
What a drooling homo.
Sometimes a gaydar is just a waste of electricity.
“I remember distinctly an image of—we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant...”
When someone walks around with a flashing neon “FAGGOT!” sign above him, the gaydar needs to be turned off before it burns out on overload.
If I am not mistaken, before he went to the NYT, Brooks was at the Boston Globe> (an NYT propety) -- acing as their token conservative.
The most notable thing he ever did, perhaps, was when he was serving as an election night analyst on Fox News in 2000. He is the one who talked the vote analysts to call Florida the way they saw it: for George W. Bush.
With that, the other networks followed Fox's lead...and GWB was made into the putative winner, with Gore forced into the challenger's role.
In retrospect, it's hard to believe that Brooks had the guts to make that call as he did. If he's fascinated by the crease in Obama's pants leg, he must've been overcome by Gore's Rolling Stone photo.
lol. very true. a gaydar next to david brooks is like a geiger counter next to chernobyl.
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