RIP David Brooks

this fucking guy x10000 billion

read america

oops typo: October 2001 column.

that helps

Fuckin vintage

The weird Archie Goodwin bit was in an nyt ed

Marvel Comics Archie Goodwin?

No, that was also the name of Nero Wolfe's side kick who brooks wanted us to emulate in the post 9/11 universe

I actually keep forgetting to check whether the marvel editor took that as a nom de plume after Rex stout

for the most part they don't even go to martha's vineyard.

they wear infinity gauntlets

People in Red America tend to live on farms or in small towns or small cities far away from the coasts.

YOU'RE RIGHT THAT IS EVERY POSSIBLE TYPE OF HUMAN SETTLEMENT.

"Occasionally one even finds a village, or a mere hamlet."

Don't people in "red America" mostly live in suburbs? I mean almost no one fucking lives on farms in any color America, he's just trolling his DC neighbors so hard with that.

some people say "undocumented workers from latin america," david brooks says "illegal aliens."

man everything is so much worse than i always forget that it wasn't.

I just love the title.

http://gawker.com/david-brooks-son-is-a-gigantic-bro-1644052311

http://gawker.com/david-brooks-son-is-a-gigantic-brony-1644052311

That's kind of shitty and gross imo (to publish that, I mean).

the Podhoretz family is shitty and gross

dude's life is probably hard enough with such a sanctimonious moron as a father

The info's all from his Facebook page; if anyone's going to go "His privacy!" about this I'm going to ask about this wonderful world you live in which is not here.

It's too bad about what Gawker has done to our world then

Privacy isn't the issue. Publishing a mocking article about someone who isn't in the public limelight and who hasn't done anything to deserve it is shitty and gross.

dude's life is probably hard enough with such a sanctimonious moron as a father

― Οὖτις,

David Brooks' kid too.

John Podhoretz, the son of former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, tweeted: “Everybody who thinks David Brooks has to ‘reveal’ his son, who’s 23, has joined the Israeli army can go fuck himself.”

yeah

and hurting / jmm right about this cheapshit article

And people who know me know I fucking hate David Brooks

Gawker blows

It's definitely shitty and gross and I doubt anyone would be defending this if it was someone who wasn't the douchey son of a douchey columnist.

fuck gawker

i don't think we know nearly enough about this kid to say he is "douchey" either. all i've gathered from that article is that he smiles a lot in photos.

The info's all from his Facebook page; if anyone's going to go "His privacy!" about this I'm going to ask about this wonderful world you live in which is not here.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, October 9, 2014 1:11 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cool post

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this addendum is the worst part

like, they are actively soliciting material to use to smear this person, a private citizen, on a nationally popular website. how is this the same thing as facebook existing?

i think margaret sullivan made a legitimate point, but that's a long way from singling out someone who's not a public figure and writing an entire article (well, 'article') ridiculing him.

Also a lot of the stuff is just about his personal/social life, it's not like they're pointing out some Super PAC he runs or something.

yeah, disclosing his relationship with the israeli army is totally different and unrelated from raiding his facebook profile for pictures and "likes" that encourage readers to make assumptions about what he is like as a person.

It fits with Gawker/Jezebel's bad habit of trying to show that someone is a Bad Person instead of focussing on one egregious incident. It leaves a bad taste. If you think/know someone's done something wrong then stick to that - don't do an armchair audit of their whole life.

the gawker/jezebel tone is so toxic. it's weird to read an article i basically agree with (not this one) and still come away feeling gross.

it's the plague of my generation

haha

The info's all from his Facebook page; if anyone's going to go "His privacy!" about this I'm going to ask about this wonderful world you live in which is not here.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, October 9, 2014 1:11 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok ned, i'll lift whatever info i can about you from the internet and write a high-profile piece for a major website mocking you. that's exactly the same thing as you having a facebook profile, right?

to be clear i will not actually do this to ned. i was just making a point.

The info's all from his Facebook page; if anyone's going to go "His privacy!" about this I'm going to ask about this wonderful world you live in which is not here.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Heart u Ned but come on, a private person putting stuff on Facebook doesn't make it ok for a big website or medium to use everything they can find to negatively profile someone just because his father is a douche. It's the stringing together of seemingly unrelated things to make up a profile fitting your idea of someone (or someone's father) that is the scariest thing about this.

David Brooks' son being in the Israeli army seems relevant at least to the extent that he does at times write about Israel. The rest of it is just kind of catty and pointless.

FWIW, I've taken the responses on board and have been thinking off and on about it for the past half hour. The larger points about expectations of privacy/guilt-by-association are well taken. (Though frankly any guy from a fraternity who likes Tucker Max makes me a little skeeved separate from anything else; still, I'm not about to grill every last person who unironically likes the Chive or whatever.) And I'll admit the funniest part to me besides the headline, per Alfred's post, was Podhoretz fully embracing his bitter bastard persona at last; then again I did post the direct link so I can't not own that. Likely wouldn't post it now.

Still, though -- building off Milton Parker said, is it just the world that Gawker made or also something else? I keep thinking about news stories from all over the place essentially now regularly talking about photos on social media, posts, etc. when it comes to someone that figures in it, for whatever reason. I guess I'm more jaded than I realize but I honestly wasn't *surprised* that this could happen, and that may be my own burden to bear.

I guess I'm just kind of disappointed to see articles that amount to "Hey look at this fuggin guy," let alone about non-public figures.

But that said, look at this fuggin guy:
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/2013/01/Podhoretz_Swim.jpg

First line in today's column: "George Eliot was an emotionally needy young woman."

followed by an account of their prom date

Yet what do we mean when we use the word meaning?