David Brooks, Still a Blithering Idiot >>>

[Stephanie]

Today in the Times David "Teeny Little Girly Hands" Brooks desperately attempts to justify his neo-con agenda on jejune pseudo socio-anthropological grounds. He invents facts and uses them to spin fantasy. He makes broad generalizations in order to congratulate himself and the society he was born into. In the course of it, he manages to imply that MoveOn.org is just a step behind Al Queda and Hezbollah. Hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. He's had five years to meditate on the meaning of September 11, and this is what he came up with?

How many lies in just these few excerpts? No link, unless someone can dig one up. Times Select.

some snippets from The Jagged World, NY Times 9/2 >

"It's true people everywhere hate oppression, but they also require identity, and human beings build identities by collectively hating groups that represent what they are not."

"People who live in socieeties where authority is united - as under Islam - are really different from people who live in societies where authority is divided. People in honor societies - where someone will kill his sister because she has become polluted by rape - are different from people in socieities where people are judged by individual intentions."

"The five most important people in the Arab world, according to a recent survey, are the leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Queda and the Muslim Brotherhood. Microsoft's market conquest is nothing to that. Other and more benign groups are being created as well: Pentecostal sects, MoveOn.org, Hugo Chaves populists and whatever groups are invisibly forming among left-behind peasants in India and China."

"Americans blew the postwar administration of Iraq because they assumed they were liberating a nation sort of like their own. And yet I can't seem to renounce my own group, which is America. It would feel like cultural suicide to repress the central truths of my society, that all human beings are endowed with inalienable rights and democracy is the most just and effective form of government."

[Marr]

1. Dance, Mr. Brooks, dance.

What flimsy and insubstantial excuses he makes. Men like David Brooks are far too convinced of their own intellects to ever even entertain the notion that they could've been wrong.

The strange thing is, Brooks is not an intelligent man to begin with. He's an ideological stooge and the only reason he has such a public voice is because he argues for the things big money wants. The man is a fool, and a deeply arrogant one.

[theanarch]

2. oh, yawn...so David "Babbling" Brooks...

...is flapping his gums again? About a year ago, Editor and Publisher did the penultimate, one-headline hatchet job on the NYT's resident neo-con/artist: "Our Myth Brooks"...kinda says it all, doesn't it?

[Stephanie]

5. I just wish the Times would fire him so I could re-subscirbe

Now that Judy's gone I'm half-tempted, but not enough to pay for a penny of Brooks' salary, that's how much he annoys me.

[AspenRose]

3. Aaargh I can't STAND David Brooks

He's just so....so....SMARMY. x(

[BOSSHOG]

4. Stephanie, love ya Dear

After reading david's wawa, the first thing that came to mind - "what a blithering idiot." I suggest dave volunteer to drive a truck for halliburton in Fallujah. Yo dave, you have renounced the central truths of your society. You are a whore for a military deserter and a pack of chickenhawks who know nothing of warfare and yet you enjoy your weekends.

[Stephanie]

6. hello friend! long time no see

I've been busy!

David is getting more and more incoherent. Why doesn't the Times fire him on the grounds he is too stupid to write for them? He just makes stuff up!

[theanarch]

8. it's probably part of the NYT's...

...affirmative reaction hiring program...giving a job to a whack job who couldn't find one elsewhere...i mean, you wouldn't want this guy panhandling on a street corner, asking passers-by, "hey, buddy, can you spare a whine?"

[C_U_L8R]

7. Conservatives sure are clueless

they got their heads stuck
too far up their ideologies
and predictably screw
everything up... again and again

silly stupid people

[MisterP]

9. Cosmic Background Radiation (and early cosmic plasma) is more fun:

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~dmw8f/sounds/cdromfiles/index.php