PBS Newshour transcript from yesterday--Et Tu Brooks:

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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/political_wrap/july-dec05/bop_9-2.html

DAVID BROOKS: This is -- first of all it is a national humiliation to see bodies floating in a river for five days in a major American city. But second, you have to remember, this was really a de-legitimization of institutions.

Our institutions completely failed us and it is not as if it is the first in the past three years -- this follows Abu Ghraib, the failure of planning in Iraq, the intelligence failures, the corporate scandals, the media scandals.

We have had over the past four or five years a whole series of scandals that soured the public mood. You've seen a rise in feeling the country is headed in the wrong direction.
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It's hit the fan I think. The storm is just beginning. A day of reckoning for the 'thugs in suits'.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Yup. I would categorize jumping over a cliff going in the wrong direction

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. DAVID BROOKS SAID THIS?

Are you shitting me?
My god, the rats are jumping ship after all.

[idiosyncratic]

4. Yes . . . I was stunned. He has seen the light.

And he delineated much of the darkness of this administration.

[kansasblue]

3. Thank gawd our Leader Bush is holding it all together

(sarcasm)

[KC21304]

5. Over the past four or five years you say.

That would have been well before the 2004 election that things have been going the wrong way. THEN WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL THE PEOPLE THAT BEFORE THE ELECTION ?

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6. Pfffft. Give Brooks a few days ...

... and he'll be back to his usual smarmy *-lovin' ways.

[VPStoltz]

8. I think this is the correct assessment of him.

He is O'Leilly light.

[WiseButAngrySara]

7. TU for the link...is this the show that ElamG was interviewed on?

The DU admin?

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9. I don't know and you're welcome.