Posted on 02/27/2011 11:26:15 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
What happens when you get a few “intellectuals” together? You get a few critical shots at things with mass appeal.
Over the last two weeks, Bloomberg Television has been airing the “Intelligence Squared” debate held in New York City earlier this month with thought leaders like Arianna Huffington, Zev Chafets, P.J. O’Rourke and New York Times columnist David Brooks.
During this debate, at issue was whether the “conflict” in political discourse was creating highly polarized political parties. Brooks linked this “conflict” to Fox News and host Glenn Beck.
“I believe in conflict, I’m a columnist, conflict is fine with me,” Brooks said. “And I’m fine with that as long as it’s constructive. The problem is we have parties that don’t represent the country. We now have — here’s a fact from Morris Fiorina, Stanford political scientist: More people own ferrets than watch Fox News.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
More people own Unicorns than read David Brooks.
Huh? Many more people watch FOX News every day than read the NY Times every day.
Brooks choose a telling metaphor.
Stick to gerbils, Dave. At least you know them firsthand.
More people saw their toes off and eat them as Hors d’œuvres than know who David Brooks is or who care about his opinion.
IF that’s true, then there are more ferret owners than CNN,MSNBC, and all the other news channels combined. Makes for a lot of ferret poop.
David Brooks is no conservative.
He’s an intellectually dishonest, leftist enabling twit.
>>>...other news channels’ VEWIERSHIP combined
David Brooks - the progressive’s poster boy of a good “conservative”.
what about the overlapping set? eh?
people who BOTH own a ferret and watch fox news.
got you there sucker.
More people named their ferrets David Brooks than read his article.
Here is his stream of consciousness:
“The problem is we have parties that don’t represent the country. We now have — here’s a fact from Morris Fiorina, Stanford political scientist: More people own ferrets than watch Fox News.”
And did you know that Joe Biden wears a toup?
Hey David... many more ferret owners use the NYT for cage lining than read the rag... and I’d bet you I’m closer to the truth than you...
RE: “More people saw their toes off and eat them as Hors d’œuvres than know who David Brooks is or who care about his opinion.”
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Thanks for the laugh — I’ve been disgusted with David Brooks for a very long time now — this thread has been uplifting!
Wow, cool, I had no idea there were hundreds of millions of ferrets out there.
Looks like he ferreted out that factoid from this article
http://www.vailvalleyinstitute.org/amdiv/Fiorina.html
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There were roughly ½ million people on this e-mail list. Now in absolute numbers, that’s a big number — 560,000 people. That happens to be the same number of Americans who own ferrets. And since ferrets are illegal in California and in New York City that number is clearly an underestimate. So, in other words, if you go out and pick out a random American voter, the odds are higher that that person owns a ferret than that that person was on Howard Dean’s e-mail list.
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Ferrets have higher IQs than David Brooks.
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