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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:39 AM
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David Brooks "...would pay a Leona Helmsley lookalike a thousand dollars to take a shit on his back"
Edited on Mon Apr-12-10 09:39 AM by Beetwasher
:rofl: The above is from a Matt Taibbi article that skewers David Brooks in a way that I can't even begin to explain. It's so good. Read the whole thing.

Brooks: Let Them Eat Work

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/04/10/brooks-let-them-eat-work/

--snip--

"Then again, maybe I’m looking at this from the wrong perspective. Would I rather clean army latrines with my tongue, or would I rather do what Brooks does for a living, working as a professional groveler and flatterer who three times a week has to come up with new ways to elucidate for his rich readers how cosmically just their lifestyles are? If sucking up to upper-crust yabos was my actual job and I had to do it to keep the electricity on in my house, then yes, I might look at that as work.

But it strikes me that David Brooks actually enjoys his chosen profession. In fact, he strikes me as the kind of person who even in his spare time would pay a Leona Helmsley lookalike a thousand dollars to take a shit on his back. And here he is saying that the reason the poor and the middle classes are struggling is because they don’t work hard enough. Is this guy the best, or what? Does it get any better than this?"
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90-percent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:07 AM
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1. wait a second
I don't think it's fair to Brooks to have Taibbi's imaginary hypothetical out there.

IT NEVER HAPPENED.

Matt had a point to make, but, personally, I think Brook's sexual fantasies would have more to do with Sarah and Bristol Palin simultaneously than anything to do with Leona Helmsly.

I always cite Leona when describing self-absorbed managers in my life I had no respect for. I would say that in working America these days, probably at least 75% of us are enjoying some form of Helmsly management being inflicted on us every day!

I am no longer one of them, having been laid off March 2009!

-90% Jimmy
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