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The obligatory “David Brooks really impressed with Obama’s pants” post (ultra-barf)
Hot Air ^ | August 31, 2009 | Allahpundit

Posted on 08/31/2009 7:14:47 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative

If it’s not Frum and Bruce Bartlett demanding greater outreach from Republicans while sneering at them at every turn, it’s Brooks breaking his arms patting himself on the back for being an intellectual … who happens to find political portent in how well Barack Obama irons his pants.

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.”… “Obama sees himself as a Burkean,” Brooks says. “He sees his view of the world as a view that understands complexity and the organic nature of change.” Moreover, after the Bush years, Brooks seems relieved to have an intellectual in the White House again. “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. So, that’s why it’s important he doesn’t fuck this up.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: davidbrooks; elites; newyorktimes; obama
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David Brooks, my friends, is a joke. "Intelligence" is about social circles and culture - it has nothing to do with actual intelligence - and certainly not principles or integrity.

Brooks also says he dislikes ideologues, but apparently has a mancrush on Obama, perhaps the biggest left-wing ideologue since FDR, if not ever. David Brooks is the definition of a pseudo-intellectual.

1 posted on 08/31/2009 7:14:48 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Why doesn’t Brooks just come out of the closet already?


2 posted on 08/31/2009 7:16:56 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Hard to tell who was the “dumbest man in the room” at that meeting.


3 posted on 08/31/2009 7:17:35 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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He should reveal that he and Rahm are good friends, they really are.


4 posted on 08/31/2009 7:18:23 PM PDT by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Isn’t David Brooks supposed to be the Conservative voice on Jim Lehrer PBS??


5 posted on 08/31/2009 7:19:33 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Any “man” who finds it necessary to comment on the crease of another males “pant” has some serious gender identification issues.


6 posted on 08/31/2009 7:21:18 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Maybe Brooks should reveal the real reason he was looking at Zero’s pants....hmmmm


7 posted on 08/31/2009 7:21:25 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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To: St. Louis Conservative

You can be sure Bummer didn’t iron his own pants, and neither did Michelle.


8 posted on 08/31/2009 7:21:32 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Proud Sarah-Bot.)
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To: bigbob

Talks a mite light in the loafers too, but to be fair I don’t know.


9 posted on 08/31/2009 7:23:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Proud Sarah-Bot.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Real men always admire the “crease” in other men’s pants! Hey! How ‘bout those Bears this year! LOL! - John Candy. RIP.


10 posted on 08/31/2009 7:23:23 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my country?)
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David Brooks, my friends, is a joke.

Well, he's worse than that, he's a whore who sold out to the Slimes', homosexual cabal to be their dancing bear. They let him out for brief epsiodes, on a short chain leash, and watch in amusement while he attempts to parrot what he thinks they want him to say. At the Slimes this is laughingly called the "Willam Safire Chair of Political Commentary." and Brooks is the rightful heir.

11 posted on 08/31/2009 7:26:12 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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It sounds like the right kind of person could easily pull the wool over this pseudo intellectuals eyes!

The right person just needs to have gone to the right schools, wear the right clothes, and project the right persona.


12 posted on 08/31/2009 7:27:04 PM PDT by DariusBane (Even the Rocks shall cry out "Hobamma to the Highest")
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I suppose when you’re published regularly on the NY Times op-ed page it’s particularly difficult to realize when you’re really embarrassing yourself.


13 posted on 08/31/2009 7:28:24 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Isn’t David Brooks supposed to be the Conservative voice on Jim Lehrer PBS??

Sure. Just like John McCain is the Conservative voice on CBS-- or whatever.

14 posted on 08/31/2009 7:28:39 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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What idiotic dribble. Judge a man by his actions, not whether he has a house boy back home who irons his pants. Brooks will wake up someday with a helluva Kool-aid hangover.
15 posted on 08/31/2009 7:29:56 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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An intelligent person is someone who can solve problems. A person who writes and reads all day but doesn’t know how to screw in a light bulb is an academic pseudo-intellectual.


16 posted on 08/31/2009 7:35:44 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Shop at Whole Foods Sep 1!!!)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Brilliance at work
17 posted on 08/31/2009 7:37:14 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Shop at Whole Foods Sep 1!!!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Thought so ...


18 posted on 08/31/2009 7:39:35 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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... does he get a tingle up his leg when he sees the crease in Othuggo’s pants?


19 posted on 08/31/2009 7:42:02 PM PDT by webschooner (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win -- Mahatma Gandhi)
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Real men always admire the “crease” in other men’s pants! Hey! How ‘bout those Bears this year! LOL! - John Candy. RIP.

Great comeback!

20 posted on 08/31/2009 7:52:09 PM PDT by citizencon
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