Posted on 01/07/2010 7:34:33 AM PST by bs9021
Band of Brooks Brothers
Malcolm A. Kline, January 7, 2010
When you make a rapid ascent from college classroom to metro newsroom, you may miss a lot. Plucked from the University of Chicago by none other than William F. Buckley himself to toil at National Review, David Brooks then made a dazzling climb up the editorial ladder to where he is perched today at the New York Times.
In the course of his career, he might have overlooked some pivotal trends in America. “The public is not only shifting from left to right,” he wrote in a recent column. “Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year.”
“The educated class believes in global warming, so public skepticism about global warming is on the rise,” he notes. He doesn’t note declining temperatures and the attempts of global warming alarmists to hide them.
“The educated class supports abortion rights, so public opinion is shifting against them,” he observes. Actually the shift started with the advent of the sonogram.
“The educated class supports gun control, so opposition to gun control is mounting,” he claims. Actually it was never all that popular among the non-elect.
Similarly, Brooks can’t bring himself to acknowledge that left-wing activism comprises virtually all of the experience of many in the White House, particularly those who have gone from it, ala Van Jones. “The Obama administration is premised on the conviction that pragmatic federal leaders with professional expertise should have the power to implement programs to solve the country’s problems,” Brooks states.
He disdains the TEA party movement: “Right now, it is an amateurish movement with mediocre leadership,” he asserts.....
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Brooks is a douche. Nobody outside of the salons of DC and NYC read or listen to any of his brain droppings.
educated class??
Brooks had zero class.
I figured this would be about David Brooks from the title.
But the fourword title is smarter and sharper than any of David Brooks’s four million words.
“The educated class” is more properly called “the indoctrinated class”. Their “education” makes them unfit to even cross a street w/o a boy scout.
Right on. Many of us have managed to educate ourselves without succumbing to the inculcation.
And the Tea Parties do not need leaders. As to amateur, it means one who does something out of love for it. Sounds just as it should be.
I got so tired of watching Brooks agree with that left-wing Lamebrain Mark Shields on the News Hour that I no longer watch that generally good and even-handed program.
Brooks representing conservatism is an oxymoron.
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