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
Pareene's regular excoriations of Brooks are always a highlight of Salon
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
But this very much sums up the view of a certain segment of the moneyed right -- the idea that progressive taxation has nothing to do with the traditional goals of the Democratic party, but is in fact a means of "punishing" successful people -- as if the idea were to take away half their money and then set it on fire!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
Hey, life is zero sum. If you don't believe me, ask a conservative.
― mh, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:30 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Links plz!
― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
I can think of some much more inventive punishments for "successful" people than just burning their money
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
Do you want to be an extremely "successful" person (as in you have a shit-ton of money) or do you want to live in a successful society where the actual success of those who do well in business reflect in the quality of the world you live in and enrich the communities responsible for generating that wealth and create a fertile environment for more successes?
People who think success is measured only in dollars they get paid are like kids who think about goal completion only in terms of how many cookies or toys they get
― mh, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
Two of Pareene's bits:
http://www.salon.com/2010/11/22/hack_list_30/
Repeat offenses: armchair sociology, easy generalizations in lieu of research or analysis, boringness.Representative quote:“The magic is not felt by a lot of people. It’s not felt, obviously, by a lot of less educated people, downscale people. They just look at Obama, and they don’t see anything. And so, Obama’s problem is he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who could go into an Applebee’s salad bar, and people think he fits in naturally there.”(Note: Applebee’s does not have salad bars.)
Representative quote:
“The magic is not felt by a lot of people. It’s not felt, obviously, by a lot of less educated people, downscale people. They just look at Obama, and they don’t see anything. And so, Obama’s problem is he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who could go into an Applebee’s salad bar, and people think he fits in naturally there.”
(Note: Applebee’s does not have salad bars.)
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/12_david_brooks/
He can make a defense of racist demagoguing sound benign. He obfuscates and misleads on income inequality, while, as always, accusing those damned coastal liberal elites of disrespecting Real Americans. Accusing liberals of disrespecting Real Americans is one of Brooks’ go-to lines, even though there’s absolutely no evidence that he has any clue whatsoever how the middle and working classes live in America in 2011.Everything, with Brooks, comes down to “values.” Bad things happen because of a lack of the correct “values,” and the correct “values” are essentially white upper-middle-class mid-20th-century bourgeois values. Poverty happens because the poor don’t have those values. Earthquakes happen because of a lack of those values. The sexual abuse of children happens because — you guessed it — America lost those important pre-’60s values. The abuses at Penn State, in Brooks’ worldview, went unreported because America has become “a society oriented around our inner wonderfulness.”HACKIEST 2011 MOMENT:That linked column on the abuses at Penn State was the sanitized version of Brooks’ comments on “Meet the Press,” in which he blamed both the failure to report the sexual abuses to the police and the riots following the firing of Joe Paterno more explicitly on “30 or 40 years” of “muddying the moral waters.” If it weren’t for women’s lib and the self-esteem movement, those kids could’ve been protected!
Everything, with Brooks, comes down to “values.” Bad things happen because of a lack of the correct “values,” and the correct “values” are essentially white upper-middle-class mid-20th-century bourgeois values. Poverty happens because the poor don’t have those values. Earthquakes happen because of a lack of those values. The sexual abuse of children happens because — you guessed it — America lost those important pre-’60s values. The abuses at Penn State, in Brooks’ worldview, went unreported because America has become “a society oriented around our inner wonderfulness.”
HACKIEST 2011 MOMENT:That linked column on the abuses at Penn State was the sanitized version of Brooks’ comments on “Meet the Press,” in which he blamed both the failure to report the sexual abuses to the police and the riots following the firing of Joe Paterno more explicitly on “30 or 40 years” of “muddying the moral waters.” If it weren’t for women’s lib and the self-esteem movement, those kids could’ve been protected!
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
I blame Applebee's for not having salad bars.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
"Applebees doesn't have salad bars" seems like an excellent one-line response to partisan hackery in itself
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
if applebee's had salad bars america would be a much healthier country
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know until recently that Applebees has a full bar!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
It is your neighborhood bar and grill, especially if your neighborhood is a shopping mall.
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
This sentence is truly fucked up. I'm white, btw.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
I just watched the episode of 30 Rock where Donaghy and Lemon go to Stone Mountain Georgia to find a new cast member and it reminded me of David Brooks a bit
― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
It’s always interesting to read the quotations of people who knew a mass murderer before he killed. They usually express complete bafflement that a person who seemed so kind and normal could do something so horrific.
― j., Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
FUCK. You beat me to it.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
this is a really choice column. prime brooks facepalm.
― j., Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link