NYT 'House Conservative' Comes Close to Endorsing Obama

NewsBusters ^ | October 18, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick

[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.

[PJ-Comix]

It the NYT "House Conservative" ever became a REAL conservative, he could find himself out of a job. Oh, and now more invites to those peachy keen Manhattan parties where the guests laugh at people like Joe the Plumber and laud radicals like Bill the Bomber.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[Carley]

If Brooks doesn’t go Obama his wife will have a headache for the rest of her life.

[Ann Archy]

He’s the HOUSE PUTZ.

[okie01]

Proving that blue blood is thicker than syrup...

[mojito]

That's the NYT’s understanding of a conservative: someone who doesn't worship Obama, just sorta likes him a lot.

[raybbr]

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.

Neither did the "Stepford Wives". He reminds me of them; passionless and inert. Merely doing what he's been told.

[roses of sharon]

Has Brooks said the same about President Bush, who for 8 years has kept a remarkable composure under the most vicious attacks from here and abroad, and under the absolute worst betrayal of him and our military by the UnAmerican Democrat Party?

[raybbr]

Has Brooks said the same about President Bush, who for 8 years has kept a remarkable composure under the most vicious attacks from here and abroad, and under the absolute worst betrayal of him and our military by the UnAmerican Democrat Party?

Who cares? Bush is the past (thank God).

[AlexW]

“NYT ‘House Conservative’”

Isn’t that an OXYMORON?

[okie01]

And yet there hasn’t been a moment when he has displayed rage, resentment, fear, anxiety, bitterness, tears, ecstasy, self-pity or impulsiveness.

In other words, he's colder than a witch's heart...

[enat]

Brooks is the David Brock of this cycle.

[Right Wing Assault]

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?

[HokieMom]

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[kjo]

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.

[Lancey Howard]

The NYTimes token “conservative” is nothing more than another hot-tub conservative, like David Brock.
Even their names are eerily similar.

[Comparative Advantage]

Brooks can eat sh!t and die for all I care!

[Lancey Howard]

Safire this guy ain’t.

[ex-snook]

Maybe Obama is more conservative than RINO McCain.

[woofie]

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.