― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
these "cellular" "telephones" represent a paradigm shift that our founders never intended
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Thursday, 22 December 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Sorry everyone else asked for it. :(
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
m.
― msp (mspa), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link
this reminds me of the one bloom county strip where steve dallas cries when he finds out "knight rider" is a children's show.
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 22 December 2005 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
“One of the things I’ve found in life is that politicians are a lot more sincere than us journalists and we are more sincere than the people that read and watch us.µ
vid here
― kingfish trapped under ice (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
On "Meet the Press," challenged on an assertion that 10,000 Iraqis will die every month if the U.S. pulls out, The New York Times columnist admits he just picked the number "out of the air."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003615101
― Martin Van Burne, Monday, 23 July 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw the broadcast. He also implied that it's worth losing a few hundred Americans a month if it keeps 10,00,00o,00,000,000 Iraqis from dying. For once Bob Woodward acted like a journalist and went after him.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 23 July 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
As much as I hate to defend Brooks, I think this is an unfair "gotcha" slam - he was obviously using the number 10,000 rhetorically to begin with. He's just trying to argue that even more Iraqis will die if we pull out, which may or may not be true but is not exactly an assertion "out of the air."
― Hurting 2, Monday, 23 July 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Given that so many generals, Bushies, neocons, and "experts" have offered their own out-of-the-air assertions since 2002, I'm prepared to slap the shit out of Brooks, especially after that slavish Bush column he wrote last week.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 23 July 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
But Hurting, he's inserting an exact number to make a hypothetical scenario seem like a concrete actuality. Far from the worst of his crimes, but it highlights how slippery his support for his arguments typically is.
― Martin Van Burne, Monday, 23 July 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
In other words, I'd let this go in many other cases, but Brooks deserves to be called out on this.
― Martin Van Burne, Monday, 23 July 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok, but advocates of withdrawal say stuff like "It can't get worse than it already is" all the time, which is just as hypothetical.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 23 July 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Besides, how literal-minded do you have to be to think that David Brooks is claiming to know exactly how many Iraqis will die per month?
― Hurting 2, Monday, 23 July 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, he claims to know a lot of stuff that he doesn't!
But regardless, this sort of rhetoric gets those numbers out there as talking points. Soon enough, 10K and 125 become the accepted estimations that you have to argue against.
― Martin Van Burne, Monday, 23 July 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Should we just keep a running tally of his clueless Obama/"class warfare"/"lakefront liberal" columns that he dribbles out like so much Olean?
F'instance
Perhaps he'll finally reach the point of just doing a find/replace of "Kerry" with "Obama" on his shit from 4 years ago. It would certainly save him effort.
― kingfish, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Methinks that lean times at the Times call for a cutback:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/opinion/03brooks.html
― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
actually i kind of liked that column--he's right, all Ward 3'rs hate everyone in Bethesda and Potomac.
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I grew up in Ward 3. Maybe the dynamics have changed since I lived there (due to 8 years of republican rule?) but at the time I didn't sense that there was a huge distinction seen between that and Bethesda. Also Ward 3 was full of incredibly intelligent, interesting people who could have made much more money in the private sector and felt some kind of calling to government.
"Nyah, they're just jealous" -- this passes for biting social commentary?
― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i was kind of kidding--like everything else he writes about he's way over simplified everything. dude is such a goober
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
ah ok, I think I see the sarcasm now
― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
as far as i can tell brooks never knows if he's kidding or not.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
its funny how in their search for a palatable republican the times found the most inane guy in the wrold
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/images/2007/05/15/david_brooks.jpg
"OK, fine. Let's talk about inanity."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
David Brooks is the name of:David Allen Brooks (born 1947), American film and television actor who played archaeologist Max Eilerson on the science-fiction television series CrusadeDavid Brooks (author) (born 1953), Australian author of short stories and co-editor for SoutherlyDavid "Bubba" Brooks, American jazz musicianDavid Brooks (inventor), inventor who patented an innovative insulator for telegraph lines in 1867 while working for the Central Pacific RailroadDavid Brooks (journalist) (born 1961), commentator for The New York Times and other publicationsDavid "Mavado" Brooks (musician), Jamaican dancehall artistDavid Brooks (murderer) (born 1955), teenaged accomplice of serial killer Dean CorllDavid Brooks (politician) (1756–1838), United States representative in the Fifth United States CongressDavid Brooks (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballerDavid Brooks (rugby union), British rugby union footballer
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
No results found for "gayvid brooks".
― velko, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.suepatrick.com/images_home_special/david_brooks.jpg
― velko, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe this is the David Brooks thread I'm looking for.
Taibbi dissects what has got to be one of the worst things Brooks has written in recent memory.
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/01/27/populism-just-like-racism/
― KORGÜLL THE EXCHEQUER (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
There he was on PBS last night talking about the State of the Union and all I could think about at the time was his error-filled hateful post on Haiti.
Taibbi needs to challenge him to a public debate.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
MT really on fire there
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 January 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
It's hard to believe that the same columnist today wrote a piece that channels some sort of "saner Ross Perot" populist that Obama should either become or lose to in 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/opinion/29brooks.html?ref=opinion
― killah priest, Friday, 29 January 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
in private he wanks to military coups tho
― u b ilxin' (Hunt3r), Friday, 29 January 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
it is a source of amazement in my daily life that this guy is allowed to write anywhere, much less for the nyt
― call all destroyer, Friday, 29 January 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
And appear on PBS and NPR.
So he wants a 'Perot' to turn Obama into a Clinton to get rid of the deficit and not do any of those liberal things he thinks are predictable. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
On a minor note, it's A HUGE pet peeve when a writer, usually a columnist, tries to avoid using a cliché by modifying it. Like:
There is a specter haunting America: the specter of a saner, updated version of Ross Perot.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"there is a parrot haunting america: an avian, updated version of phil spector"
― u b ilxin' (Hunt3r), Friday, 29 January 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
he reads like a columnist you'd find in an airplane magazine
― bnw, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not even a matter of disagreeing with him--i just don't think he's very bright.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
lol or what bnw said!
He's swayed by power and the kind of self-mocking assurance that he wishes he had.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
aren't we all
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i kind of agree with that column?
i think Obama could use a little crazy Perot/crazy chart stuff right about now
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Ugh, the very thought makes me want to step off a bridge.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 13 August 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
"David Brooks really has three jobs because he has to raise his wife," my fiance said— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) March 4, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
rather condescending toward the wife
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
like giving vince carter a 6 at the dunk contest, come on
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 5 March 2021 02:28 (three years ago) link
That's hilarious. Is it wrong that I find that hilarious?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 5 March 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
“If Books Could Kill” covers David Brooks’ book
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-if-books-could-kill-104279346/episode/david-brookss-bobos-in-paradise-104750888/
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwwnCKLi5BMOW6L2Gg97bgI_iKYINBPZa
No Fair Remembering stuff has a series on Brooks.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
from the bobo thing it's amusing to learn that brooks has the exact same approach to class analysis as those edgy left podcasters who've robbed "PMC" of any concrete meaning
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
PMC?
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/PMC
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
the professional-managerial class as conceptualised / later rejected as relevant concept by barbara ehrenreich, long since stripped of any material referents and turned into an all purpose woke/idpol/SJW equivalent by reactionary elements on the left
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 18 November 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
hearing more brooks classics it's no surprise obama was so shit with this kind of intellectual nourishment
his totally (by his own admission for once) imaginary scenario of a scat play fetish party cancelling an attendee for not recycling, presented as if he's making some kind of point, is hilarious and disturbing and probably where he accidentally peaked as a human being
he needs to stay the fuck away from joggers in parks
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 18 November 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
One of the worst paragraphs I’ve ever read pic.twitter.com/kZRfi2Ol0Y— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) November 24, 2022
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 November 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
From the comments on above tweet about Brooks saying his ears were straight outa Compton—
In 1991 when David Brooks was a 30 year old man writing columns about how the Black people who make the music he likes deserve poverty and suffering, his current wife was six years old— Hilary Agro 🍄 @hilarya✧✧✧@masto✧✧✧.l✧✧ (@hilaryagro) November 24, 2022
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 November 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
from the same column:
My body has matured; my tastes have not.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
Then there are the times that are just awkward — like the time at a Nas concert when a seven-foot-tall woman in a black bodice came up to me and asked, “What on earth are you doing here?”
rejected Piano Man lyrics
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link