Posted on 10/18/2008 9:02:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
David Brooks, the "House Conservative" of the New York Times, should seriously consider putting his self-description as "conservative" in quotes at all times in order to comply with truth in packaging. I mean how conservative can you be when liberal sources are quoting you favorably, especially when you sound like, without quite saying so, you are endorsing Barack Obama? The liberal New Republic cites Brooks favorably for his almost endorsement of The One:
Has David Brooks Endorsed Obama?
Not in so many words, but please continue:
Well, not exactly. After all, he has one paragraph in his column in Friday's Times in which he speculates that Obama might be reticent, stand-offish, ineffectual.
The rest is a well thought-out and (as usual) elegantly written argument for Obama's character as a portend of an intelligent and considered presidency. It's not only that the economy will protect against wild supplemental spending. Obama, Brooks argues, is not a crusader. He measures ideas by the likeliness of their progressive effect.
Here is the David Brooks Obama acclamation column that The New Republic Editor, Marty Peretz, cites so favorably (emphasis):
We’ve been watching Barack Obama for two years now, and in all that time there hasn’t been a moment in which he has publicly lost his self-control. This has been a period of tumult, combat, exhaustion and crisis. And yet there hasn’t been a moment when he has displayed rage, resentment, fear, anxiety, bitterness, tears, ecstasy, self-pity or impulsiveness.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
PING!
If Brooks doesn’t go Obama his wife will have a headache for the rest of her life.
He’s the HOUSE PUTZ.
Neither did the "Stepford Wives". He reminds me of them; passionless and inert. Merely doing what he's been told.
Who cares? Bush is the past (thank God).
“NYT ‘House Conservative’”
Isn’t that an OXYMORON?
In other words, he's colder than a witch's heart...
Brooks is the David Brock of this cycle.
This is the a$$ who said after the debate that McCain looked stiff in the shoulders. Wonder why that would be? Something he got in Nam?
Brooks = Gergen...who worked in the Reagan White House as their in-house liberal...who later moved to the Clinton White House...and is now a “conservative” commentator on the MSM becasue he once worked in the Reagan White House.
Folks like the NYTs and MSM outlets don’t actually employ conservatives...they keep one around as though he is an animal in the zoo to look at and learn from...there are NO conservatives in the MSM.
The NYTimes token “conservative” is nothing more than another hot-tub conservative, like David Brock.
Even their names are eerily similar.
Brooks can eat sh!t and die for all I care!
Safire this guy ain’t.
Maybe Obama is more conservative than RINO McCain.
I know some dead people who haven’t displayed rage, resentment, fear, anxiety, bitterness, tears, ecstasy, self-pity or impulsiveness either. Perhaps they would make good Presidents someday.
Anyone who watches Brooks on PBS with overt Democrat Mark Shields knows that the two of them agree a lot more than disagree. Brooks knows where is his bread is buttered and doesn’t deviate from his employers’ “liberal” line very often.
Being the “House Conservative” of the New York Times is like being the House Conservative of Cuba.
I say get rid of all these asshats now we never knew you and don’t let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out.
Things have been going Obama's way so far. He hasn't been truly tested yet.
But over the past two years, Obama has never shown evidence of that. Instead, he has shown the same untroubled self-confidence day after day.
This could be that narcissistic bubble of boundless self-regard and self-involvement. I'm not definitely saying that's what it is, but one would have expected Brooks to at least address the possibility.
He doesn't have F.D.R.'s joyful nature or Reagan's happy outlook, but he is analytical. That's why this William Ayers business doesn't stick. He may be liberal, but he is never wild. His family is bourgeois. His instinct is to flee the revolutionary gesture in favor of the six-point plan.
Brooks may actually have a valid point there. You don't have to worship Obama to recognize that he's not a hotheaded revolutionary anymore.
That doesn't mean that everything's right about the guy, just that a lot of the "Marxist" rhetoric used against him isn't hitting the mark.
I understand that view of Obama comes from looking at Saul Alinsky's book, but if you look at Obama's recent career, it hasn't been in Alinsky's mold of radical agitation very much.
Like a cobra.
When someone crosses him. he lashes out - just take “Joe” for example. Joe, the ordinary citizen, sees the One unexpectedly show up on his street. He asks the anointed one a question. the One, off his teleprompter, let's the cat out the bag re his Socialist agenda.
Obamination and crew go full bore to destroy “Joe” - ordinary citizen - and no one is asking, instead, just what he means by ‘redistribution of the wealth.”
We know, of course, but he should be made to answer. The story is not “Joe” - it's the obamination’s answer.
Across the country, he has issued Marxist orders and threats to shoot down ANY one who says anything negative about him. He wants them arrested! (see video) He sends threatening letters to newspapers and radio and TV outlets that air adverse ads - even issuing orders to a state's law enforcement ...in order to control the press and citizens alike. .
“Arrest the Peasants!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
This week - letter to AG from Obamination HQ to shut down any negative reference to ACORN as a republican conspiracy = this is the kind of letters they have been systematically sending to newspapers, radio TV stations. Any question that, if in power, the FREE press and the right of us ordinary “joes” to speak out will be history - all descent will be dealt with like “Joe, the Plumber” an ordinary citizen who dared ask the anointed one an inconvenient question - especially since he voted republican in the primary? How DARE a republican speak to the anointed one.
Many of us know enough history, or experienced or had family experience, what it's like in a totalitarian regime. We can see and hear it coming. We are beyond alarmed to downright afraid.
We must remember that the obamination will not be able to take over our country by himself. But we tend to forget that his puppeteers in DC, masquerading as democrats, will make sure we become a Marxist nation...and they will have the obamination’s “Praetorian Guard” across the country to keep us in line - or off to “Siberia” and retraining camps.
His “Praetorian Guard” - in his own words - This need to be an ad and brought up on TV and make him explain -
His intention to create a “National Civilian” Police Force - Jack Boots and Brown Shirts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y
Where on earth is the drum beat for voting straight ticket - and not letting the reids and pelosies and Maxines Waters and barneys and the rest stay in power, bony hands firmly gripping the wheel of state?
Where is the cry: “Can we afford 2-4 more years of THIS congress?
The latest: he sent a letter to the AG - just yesterday! - to demand they stop McCain/Palin and the republicans ads and stories about his involvement with ACORN or the rampant fraud — the outfit he has has been involved with for many years (and is proven) and to whom he PROMISED, just recently, that he would bring them into his fold even BEFORE he took office and include them in policy decisions. (see letter and video)
below VIDEO of the obamination just recently PROMISING ACORN that that he would bring them into his fold even BEFORE he took office and included in policy decisions.
Letter from the obamanation campaign - JUST YESTERDAY- to AG Mukasey. Echoes of Marxism - shut down all oppostion.
read first paragraph, page 2. and the first para
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/Obama-Mukasey/?resultpage=2&;
pg one
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/Obama-Mukasey/?resultpage=1&;
Pray hard - but work harder. (And don't think our names are not already being compiled on an enemies of the state list. Alarmist? No. A student of history. If it looks like...)
SAVE the video links in your email box and send to everyone you know...
OOPS - I posted incomplete link in my post #27 - to the obaminations order to arrest the peasants-
here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIenDGSAdPA
Right!
We'd be ever so much better off if, on 9-11, we'd have had a President Gore or President Kerry.
need I post "EXTREME sarq!"?
After your post, I need to go out and get some pure, unadulterated sunshine to wash away the crap
It’s not just in the Times )p-Ed pages, I often want to puke whenever he’s on the Lehrer show and says, “I agree with Mark” (shields), one of the most liberal analysts ever.
Wow! Where did that come from? I am glad Bush is done. I cannot stand the man any longer. He has been raised up to a pedestal he does not deserve.
After your post, I need to go out and get some pure, unadulterated sunshine to wash away the crap
Good! It appears you have too much in your brain.
Either he was never a conservative, or he is suffering from Stockholm syndrome.
A week ago he had a column lambasting Republicans for failing to show proper deference and respect to their sophisticated intellectual superiors (like the people Brooks hangs out with). It never occurred to him to turn the question around and ask why the liberal sophisticates have such contempt for ordinary Americans in flyover country.
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