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I think Brooks wrote this to counter the impression left by the Newsweek cover this week.

1 posted on 05/15/2012 6:36:09 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

All the talk about gay marriage and Obama being the first gay President has David Brooks in a state of excitement

2 posted on 05/15/2012 6:39:55 AM PDT by PGR88

“....rarely self-indulgent”?????

Did he really write this with a straight face or is he really that stupid?

3 posted on 05/15/2012 6:40:19 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)

“ESPN Masculinity” to describe President Obama....
WHAT!.... If this president was anymore a be-itch..
he'd have a menstrual cycle

4 posted on 05/15/2012 6:41:07 AM PDT by baddog 219

Obama has displayed a kind of ESPN masculinity

5 posted on 05/15/2012 6:43:17 AM PDT by ILS21R (John Locke: When the social contract is broken, the people must revolt.)

6 posted on 05/15/2012 6:44:53 AM PDT by Wizdum (My job is to get you to shoot soda out your nose)

9 posted on 05/15/2012 6:47:01 AM PDT by skeeter

Brooks is part of the New York Times.

He is SUPPOSED to be utterly surreal.

10 posted on 05/15/2012 6:47:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The so-called 'mainstream' media has gone from "biased" straight to "utterly surreal".)

11 posted on 05/15/2012 6:47:56 AM PDT by skeeter

Geeze...not *another* one with a thrill up his leg!

12 posted on 05/15/2012 6:48:12 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Julia: another casualty of the "War on Poverty")

If the Onion wasn’t such a biased liberal POS, I’d say they wrote this!

13 posted on 05/15/2012 6:48:34 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)

Does Brooks have a man crush on Obama?

14 posted on 05/15/2012 6:49:02 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)

God help us. Homo Islamicus.

16 posted on 05/15/2012 6:52:18 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))

The pathetic Brooks has a crush on The First Gay President.

17 posted on 05/15/2012 6:53:37 AM PDT by txrefugee

You mean he sexually harasses his female co-workers?

18 posted on 05/15/2012 6:55:11 AM PDT by relictele (We are officially OUT of other people's money!)

19 posted on 05/15/2012 6:56:22 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")

MANLY MAN

Extremely Sissified Pretender Nancy

21 posted on 05/15/2012 7:00:36 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (When we cease to be good we'll cease to be great. Be for Goode.)

Would this be the kind of ESPN masculinity displayed during the Gay Games?

Source: Outsports News from an article entitled, "The Gay-Friendly Worldwide Leader In Sports.

It may sound like a fantasy world to some, but it’s the ever-growing record of the self-proclaimed and widely recognized “worldwide leader in sports,” ESPN. Over the last 10 years, ESPN has developed a history of visible gay-friendly actions that have separated it from much of the rest of the sports world, including:

ESPN first aired their groundbreaking Outside The Lines special, "The World of the Gay Athlete," on Dec. 16, 1998. They followed that with a second OTL special, "The Gay Dilemma," on June 3, 2001.

Luke Cyphers from ESPN The Magazine and ESPN producer Craig Lazarus participated in the first Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation conference in March of 2003.

ESPN was a sponsor of the Gay Games in 2006, and ESPN Mobile sponsored a basketball team that participated in the Games; That team was captained by openly gay former ESPN The Magazine basketball editor LZ Granderson.

ESPN has recruited at conferences for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association since 2004.

ESPN aired a five-minute segment over Memorial Day Weekend 2005 about Andrew Goldstein, the openly gay lacrosse goalie at Dartmouth (incidentally, they got the story from Outsports).

ESPN was honored at the 2006 Commercial Closet's Images in Advertising Award for "Outstanding Business-To-Business/Trade Ad."

Figures!

23 posted on 05/15/2012 7:05:05 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)

...you mean like Robin Roberts?

24 posted on 05/15/2012 7:07:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog

David must have just broken up with his boyfriend, and is looking for love...

25 posted on 05/15/2012 7:07:49 AM PDT by Mamzelle

This is insane. He is the most effeminate man to ever occupy the WH...and it’s not even close.

27 posted on 05/15/2012 7:11:10 AM PDT by woweeitsme

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