David Brooks: Just Trying To Fill Column Space Cuz All GOP News Is Bad

[Wetzelbill]

Well, that isn't the name of it, but can anybody tell me WTF brought this column on? It has nothing to do with anything right now. With all the important stories going on Brooks pulls this out of his ass?

July 24, 2005
Pain, Agony, Despair: Flying With Children
By DAVID BROOKS
It's summertime, which means many people these days are flying with children, an experience that can be enriching and exciting, and is followed by memories that linger even after the shell shock, nightmares and trauma-induced facial tics have faded away.

Any airplane trip with children begins before boarding in the airport gate area, where the parents, dreading the next four hours of high-altitude agony, will be laying down a bed of psychic tension that will be the karmic foundation for everything that is to come. They will be coaching their children on how to behave, spreading maniacally upbeat good cheer and exuding the waves of anxiety that are almost clinically certain to produce a toddler meltdown.

The airlines helpfully have families with small children board first, which gives parents an extra 45 minutes to play peekaboo even before the plane takes off. As the craft fills up, it becomes clear they and their kids have been seated in a special sadist section, among Idi Amin, the etiquette committee of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a perfect 4-year-old wonder child who will spend the whole flight quietly reading The Economist.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/opinion/24brooks.html?incamp=article_popular

[intheflow]

1. Obviously, he's taken one too many plane rides

with whiny children on board.

[thebigidea]

2. he's about as funny as accidentally running over your dog

[emulatorloo]

3. David Brooks is either the dumbest person ever born or a bold-faced liar

To paraphrase Judge Marilyn Milian of the Peoples Court.

Per my own thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4180506&mesg_id=4180506

[patdem]

4. I love to offer choices like that to freepers on the AOL chat rooms

okay I know..AOL..hate AOL..but I do hate AOL but cannot abandon my FTL chatroom! I offer choices similar to that..some are "Are you ignorant because you chose to be or is it genetic?"..

The old.."when did you stop beating your wife" conundrum! LOL!

[emulatorloo]

5. Go get 'em!!!! . . . I am tiring of the Talking Points and the lying

EOM

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Poor David Brooks!

It has to be tough for a Republican whore apologist for the BFEE to come up with newsworthy material these days. There's nothing he can write about that he can spin for his side without sounding like Baghdad Bob, so he wracks his tiny brain... "What can I write? What can I write? It can't be something about Rove, can't write about the war, Social Security is a bust... Damn, I've got a deadline!... Oh, I've got it! Annoying, bratty children on airplanes!"

Good job, dude. Very relevant and newsworthy.

[Wetzelbill]

7. That's basically what I was thinking

I always enjoy David's columns. Not because I agree with him, he's usually not too bad as far as these guys go, but he's pretty entertaining. But, for the life of me, I can't figure out why he just wrote something so inane when there is so much going on. Like you said, Rove, the war, SS..... so he writes about annoying kids, haha.

[Uncle Joe]

8. I believe this is a subliminal shot at Roberts

for allowing his son to annoy Bush.