that sentiment is so stupid i cannot even stand it
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
the insidious thing about him is that bland geniality. especially on t.v. you can be lulled (to sleep) into thinking that he is being really reasonable and commonsensical until you wake up and actually listen and realize that he's a complete idiot. its easier to see in print obviously. i'm sure there are plenty of non-repubs who watch him on pbs and think that he's the kindler gentler conservative thst they kinda agree with sometimes. cuz in their heart of hearts they do think that people should just work harder and pull themselves up by their bootstraps and all that. he's still on pbs right? #nocablejustnetflix
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
"kinder"
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Brooks is right, you'd never see that kind of white-washing and looking the other way in an organization based on traditional religious values.
xxp
― o. nate, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
moral systems that emphasize our sinfulness like, for example, catholicism
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
he typically softens his conservatism using the shittiest of fluff psychology out there which makes it even more unappealing to me.
― ain't nothing nice (bnw), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
he has a point though. if i saw david brooks being beaten on a street in an american neighborhood i would do nothing to intervene.
^^^
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
You guys aren't being honest with yourselves. Everyone knows that if they saw David Brooks being beaten they'd join in.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
how has mark shields never once just slapped the hell out of david brooks on air
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
all thats enough from you for now son
this is something i would like to see
would pay $$ to watch brooks grab mark shield's monstrous jowls and swing from them like a pundit monkey
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
hey now
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
what happens when pundits stop being polite and GET REAL
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Online you can find videos of savage beatings, with dozens of people watching blandly.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
mark shield's monstrous jowls
i can't watch this guy anymore which is all for the best anyway
― buzza, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
david brooks is so dumb he misuses simple adverbs.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder what other kinds of videos david brooks can find online
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
No results found for "David Brooks beaten" youtube.
:(
pretty sure david brooks is our nation's highest authority on giving bland assent to horrible moral outrages
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
why can't people just be NICE? why can't football just be football like it was in my day with the sadie hawkins day dance right around the corner and the gang playing grabass on the quad and the frat brothers wielding their paddles with a gentle urgency...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
god he looks like an unholy combination of pedant and pedo
https://www.nytexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/David-Brooks.jpeg
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
This fucking guy:
America is creative because of its moral materialism — when social values and economic ambitions get down in the mosh pit and dance. Santorum is in the fray.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
Ew
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
"But having said all that, I’m delighted that Santorum is making a splash"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.pictureshunt.com/pics/t/the_fray-4545.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 January 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
David Brooks in a mosh pit: clutching his glasses close to his chest in a loose fist, being knocked around, cursing with frustration, and on the verge of tears
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Main Street Republicans like Romney usually beat social conservatives like Santorum because there are just so many more of them in the Republican electorate.
hmmm.
― 2012 republican presidential nominee II: Hot, Ready and Legal! (will), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, surely Romney will beat Santorum, but *are* they more "Main Street" dudes (what the fuck ever that means at this point) than there are "social conservatives" in the GOP?
― 2012 republican presidential nominee II: Hot, Ready and Legal! (will), Friday, 6 January 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
Vaguely pithy line:
I sometimes wonder if the Republican Party has become the receding roar of white America as it pines for a way of life that will never return.
Vaguely disturbing note:
I brought my 12-year-old son on this latest trip. My rule is that if a candidate can’t relate well to a 12-year-old, they’ll never win a general election. He approached all the candidates, and they were all wonderful except Gingrich. But that wasn’t Gingrich’s fault. My son, whose heroes include John Boehner and Tupac Shakur, picked an argument about gay marriage.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I can't understand ANYONE naming John Frickin' Boehner as a hero. I don't care how old you are.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
I can't understand anyone naming a politician as a hero, and my comment isn't just snark.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, hero worship is where you find it, and why not politics. I would have thought one of the most singularly uncharismatic and barely-in-control-of-events Speakers of recent years would not rank with that status, though.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Is Boehner appropriate for 12 year olds?!?
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
well, santorum is appropriate for consenting adults
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
I don't even understand what "moral materialism" is?
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
other heroes of David Brooks, Jr: Haley Barbour and Nas
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
David Brooks's own heroes as a child: James Watt and Bootsy Collins
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
"Haley Barbour and Nas"
Hearing this to the rhythm of the "Jay, Biggie and Nas" line in "Where I'm From"
― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
oh noes
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
"sometimes" he "wonders" IF ? hello
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
tbf it's only in his darkest moments of abject terror
― “How you like that, Mr. Hitler!” (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
Democrats, meanwhile, have shifted their emphasis from lifting up the poor to pounding down the rich. Democratic candidates no longer emphasize early childhood education and community-building. Instead they embrace the pseudo-populist Occupy Wall Street hokum — the opiate of the educated classes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/opinion/brooks-free-market-socialism-.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212
Oy veh
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Dear NYT I will subscribe for life if you fire this fuck.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
the prob is if they fire him they'd hire someone even worse
― iatee, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
i was just talking with some democrats the other day about early childhood education, and they were like pshh fuck that
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure nytimes keeps David Brooks around as a real-life straw man conservative
― mh, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Yes.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not so sure. they hired william kristol, who demonstrated his contempt for the times by being a shitty columnist even by his own standards and taking its money for a year. i wonder if another marquee conservative wouldn't do basically the same.
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
The subtext of that column seems to be that our economy is failing because not enough men are like David Brooks
― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link