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David Brooks: Bard of the 1 Percent | Beat the Press
2011-10-18 02:59:00 Via Scoop.it – News for GreensDavid Brooks delved deep into his storage locker of misinformation to tell readers that the idea of blaming the richest 1 Percent for the country’s problems is just silly. He told us that the really big ideas aren’t about reversing the upward redistribution of income from the top, they are ...
By: News for Greens
Question: Are The Democrats Letting Their Farthest Fringes Dictate Their Po
2009-07-22 03:05:00 Answer: INDEED. Remember when our country was being run by a Republican Congress, a Republican Senate and a Republican president? Those were the “good ole’ days”, weren’t they? All it took for America to see how ugly our country appears under complete G.O.P. rule was to... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Maureen Dowd Might Have Some Liberals Up In Arms Over A Lot Of Things, But
2009-03-09 02:03:00 Question Of The Day: Can President Obama’s First Lady Out Arm Wrestle Him? Oh, yeah — she’s got style and she’s got some “daunting” (NYT — Maureen Dowd) biceps, too. According to Ms. Dowd, Obama insiders were at one point, tossing hints to the First Lady... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Lost in the Crowd--By David Brooks
2008-12-17 08:15:00 from the New York Times--December 16, 2008--http://www.nytimes.com/20-08/12/16/opinion/16brooks.htmlA-ll day long, you are affected by large forces. Genes influence your intelligence and willingness to take risks. Social dynamics unconsciously shape your choices. Instantaneous perceptions set off neural reactions in your head without you even being aware of them.Over the past few years, scientists have made a series of exciting discoveries about how these deep patterns influence daily life. Nobody has done more to bring these discoveries to public attention than Malcolm Gladwell.Gladwell’s important new book, “Outliers,” seems at first glance to be a description of exceptionally talented individuals. But in fact, it’s another book about deep patterns. Exceptionally successful people are not lone pioneers who created their own success, he argues. They are the lucky beneficiaries of social arrangements.As Gladwell told Jason Zengerle of New York magazine: “The book’s saying,...
Who Will He Choose?--By DAVID BROOKS
2008-12-12 07:35:00 As in many other areas, the biggest education debates are happening within the Democratic Party. On the one hand, there are the reformers like Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee, who support merit pay for good teachers, charter schools and tough accountability standards. On the other hand, there are the teachers’ unions and the members of the Ed School establishment, who emphasize greater funding, smaller class sizes and superficial reforms.During the presidential race, Barack Obama straddled the two camps. One campaign adviser, John Schnur, represented the reform view in the internal discussions. Another, Linda Darling-Hammond, was more likely to represent the establishment view. Their disagreements were collegial (this is Obamaland after all), but substantive.In public, Obama shifted nimbly from camp to camp while education experts studied his intonations with the intensity of Kremlinologists. Sometimes, he flirted with the union positions. At other times, he practiced dog-whistle pol...
David Brooks and Applebees
2008-06-04 20:12:00 David Brooks is an interesting right wing pundit. There are times when he actually makes sense. There are times when I agree with him. He isn’t like William Krystal who is wrong almost all of the time. So, you and I need to read his stuff carefully. Yesterday, on MSNBC, ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "David Brooks and Applebees", url: "http://www.whereistheoutrage.n-et/wordpress/2008/06/04/david-b-rooks-and-applebees/" });
The Defense of David Brooks
2008-04-19 01:15:00 David Brooks wasn’t the only fan of the most recent debate. Bill O’Reilly liked it too. But the New York Times has produced a sterling defense of Brooks’ position that trivia is what you really want to know about the candidates. David Brooks is no longer alone in defending the ABC moderators of Wednesday’s ...
Hillary Clinton's Long Defeat - David Brooks
2008-03-25 17:05:00 March 25, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist The Long Defeat By DAVID BROOKS Hillary Clinton may not realize it yet, but sheÂ’s just endured one of the worst weeks of her campaign. First, Barack Obama weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair without serious damage to his nomination prospects. Obama still holds a tiny lead among Democrats nationally in the Gallup tracking poll, just as he did before this whole affair blew up. Second, ObamaÂ’s lawyers successfully prevented re-votes in Florida and Michigan. That means it would be virtually impossible for Clinton to take a lead in either elected delegates or total primary votes. Third, as Noam Scheiber of The New Republic has reported, most superdelegates have accepted Nancy PelosiÂ’s judgment that the winner of the elected delegates should get the nomination. Instead of lining up behind Clinton, theyÂ’re drifting away. Her lead among them has shrunk by about 60 in the past month, according to Avi Zenilman of Politico.com. In short, Hillary Cl...
David Brooks of The New York Times Cries for John McCain
2008-01-22 21:08:00 David Brooks, of the New York Times, complains that Conservative Leaders are Mean Anyway, conservative voters aren’t listening to conservative leaders like Rush Limbaugh The NYT’s Favorite Republican, John McCain David Brooks of the New York Times pens a liberal Mainstream Media member’s wet dream of the opposition in today’s MSM flagship. It’s hard to know where to begin ...
McCain Won But.....
2008-01-20 06:37:00 John McCain won in South Carolina but Josh Marshall wonders if this might be the end of the line for St. John. Although he has won some open primaries he has yet to get the majority of Republican voters. But McCain's victory tonight does set us up to get an answer to an important question: just how much enmity is there for John McCain among base Republican voters?[....]I think a lot of the establishment types in the GOP would rather go with Romney. And I think it's a very open question how well McCain will do if this becomes a head to head race between McCain and Romney.There's also the issue of open and closed primaries. South Carolina, like Michigan and New Hampshire, but not many of the coming primaries, is an open primary. But if you look at the numbers tonight, John McCain lost Republicans by one point to Mike Huckabee.There aren't many open primaries left. And to best of my knowledge McCain has not won once this year among Republicans. He loses among Republicans and makes ...
David Brooks: Surprise Parties
2008-01-09 16:21:00 This election isn?t only about change, it?s about surprise. Here are the top 10 surprises of New Hampshire primary night, 2008: 1. Republicans voted in nearly the same numbers as Democrats. In Iowa, Democratic interest swamped Republican interest. In New Hampshire, the Democrats had an edge, but it was not huge. 2. The polls on the Democratic side were wrong. Cynics will think this is no surprise, but in fact when you get a dozen polls saying the same thing (Obama by 9), that usually predicts the final result. The Obama people thought the polls were right. I?ve spent a lot of time with Clinton people recently. From their sour expressions, you know they thought the polls were right. But they weren?t. 3. Money is not god. Mitt Romney has spent roughly $80 million and run more ads than even Clinton and Obama. He?s 0 for 2. 4. Working-class women stuck with Hillary. The secret to her success, and the reason she may win the election in November (if she gets that far) is that less-edu...
Still Clueless After All These Years
2008-01-07 06:46:00 We have the first instalment of Bloody Bill Kristol in the New York Times and yes he's still the same clueless Bill that said this: "There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America ... that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."~Willaim Kristol, April 4th, 2003The subject of his first column isn't wars for oil and Israel but Mike Huckabee. Now I never thought that Huckabee had a chance at the nomination but Kristol seems to be saying he thinks Huckabee might. Since Kristol is always wrong I guess I was right. He talks about why Huckabee is popular but since he never talks to anyone that isn't a multi-millionaire he gets it completely wrong. After the last two elections, featuring the well-born George Bush and Al Gore and John Kerry, Americans ? even Republicans! ? are ready for a likable regular guy. Hu...
David Brooks is right
2008-01-06 08:02:00 It is not often that I’ve agreed with David Brooks of the New York Times. He has been an unrelenting apologist for conservatives in general and the neocons in specific but his analysis of Thursday night’s elections is surprisingly lucid. He recognizes the amazing feat that Barack Obama pulled off on Thursday night. One needs ...
Does David Brooks Get It?
2008-01-06 03:20:00 When I saw the title of David Brooks' Friday column, The Two Earthquakes, I assumed it was simply more of the gasbag bloviating we have come to expect. It appeared in my local paper on Saturday and I read it. The first earthquake he discusses is Obama's win in Iowa and for the most part it fulfilled my initial expectations. But then he moves on to Huckabee's win. Now there was a hint that Brooks might have some idea of what was happening in the Republican party in his commentary on Mitt Romney but his insight on the Huckabee win amazed me. On the Republican side, my message is: Be not afraid. Some people are going to tell you that Mike Huckabee?s victory last night in Iowa represents a triumph for the creationist crusaders. Wrong.Huckabee won because he tapped into realities that other Republicans have been slow to recognize. First, evangelicals have changed.That's right, after being taken for a ride by the wealthy GOP elite they have their own candidate he in addition to talkin...
David Brooks: The Two Earthquakes
2008-01-04 22:08:00 (image: thinkprogress) David Brooks has an excellent piece at NYTimes.com today. It’s a message to those who would fear a Mike Huckabee candidacy, and speaks of a new coalition boiling about in the Republican Party, apart from the stale old guard. On the Republican side, my message is: Be not afraid. Some people are going to tell ...
By: postpolitical
David Brooks Describes the Two Earthquates in Iowa
2008-01-04 18:32:00 One of the peculiarities of the campaign recently has been that often I’ve found that David Brooks has been making more sense than Paul Krugman on the op-ed page of The New York Times. I’ve noted many times in the past that Brooks often does make sense as long as he can get past the ...
By: Liberal Values
The Trouble With Romney
2008-01-01 19:03:00 I like to make fun of David Brooks - sometimes his columns are idiocy personified. Occasional he takes off his partisan dunce hat and his delusional rose colored glasses and gets it right. Today is one of those times as he talks about the snake oil salesman, Romney.Road to Nowhere Earnestly and methodically, he has appealed to each of the major constituency groups. For national security conservatives, he vowed to double the size of the prison at Guantánamo Bay. For social conservatives, he embraced a culture war against the faithless. For immigration skeptics, he swung so far right he earned the endorsement of Tom Tancredo.He has spent roughly $80 million, including an estimated $17 million of his own money, hiring consultants, blanketing the airwaves and building an organization that is unmatched on the Republican side.And he has turned himself into the party?s fusion candidate. Some of his rivals are stronger among social conservatives. Others are stronger among security conservat...
A Pleasant Surprise - David Brooks Gets It Right
2007-12-07 07:03:00 I discussed what was wrong with Mitt Romney's "Faith In America" address below. Well much to my amazement David Brooks noticed too.Faith vs. the Faithless When this country was founded, James Madison envisioned a noisy public square with different religious denominations arguing, competing and balancing each other?s passions. But now the landscape of religious life has changed. Now its most prominent feature is the supposed war between the faithful and the faithless. Mitt Romney didn?t start this war, but speeches like his both exploit and solidify this divide in people?s minds. The supposed war between the faithful and the faithless has exacted casualties.The first casualty is the national community. Romney described a community yesterday. Observant Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Jews and Muslims are inside that community. The nonobservant are not. There was not even a perfunctory sentence showing respect for the nonreligious. I?m assuming that Romney left that out in order to g...
David Brooks on Immigration and ….. The Real Rudy Giuliani
2007-11-24 09:09:00 On Nov. 23, David Brooks writes: At the moment, Giuliani and fellow moderate Mitt Romney are attacking each other for being insufficiently Tancredo-esque. They are not renouncing the policies they... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
David Brooks Misses The Real Giuliani
2007-11-23 23:23:00 In contrast to the more moderate views on immigration supported by Mike Huckabee, David Brooks looks at the views of Rudy Giuliani. Brooks looks not only at Giuliani’s views of today but a more moderate approach–that supported by Giuliani himself in the past. Brooks believes that the previous statements by Giuliani, as opposed to ...
By: Liberal Values
David Brooks: Apologist for Racism
2007-11-14 18:18:00 Last Friday, David Brooks wrote that it was a “slur” to say that Ronald Reagan’s 1980 Philadelphia, Mississippi campaign speech about “states rights” was a piece of unbridled racism. Reagan, according to Brooks, was possibly insensitive, but not exploiting racism, and the people who say he was are wicked and naughty and overly partisan: But still ...
David Brooks: Feel the Love for Hillary
2007-11-02 21:41:00 BRIAN WILLIAMS: Welcome to Drexel University, the site of tonight?s Democratic presidential debate. Let?s get started with Senator Barack Obama. Senator, you?ve vowed to spend this entire debate standing on Senator Clinton?s windpipe while reducing her to a quivering mass of jelly. How do you plan on doing that? SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: Well, Brian, as you know the goal of my campaign is to make this country as noble as I am. But without casting aspersion or criticism in any direction, I have noticed that Senator Clinton, probably without meaning to, has not fully contextualized her discourse, which has had the effect of diffusing the national conversation we must have about the tremendous challenges we face. WILLIAMS: Senator Clinton, I?m going to give you a few seconds to recover from that mauling. SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON (quietly weeping): Thank you, Brian. TIM RUSSERT: Senator Edwards, let?s turn to you. Four years ago, you vowed to run an entirely positive campaign. Now you?r...
David Brooks: Huckabee Could Be What the GOP is Searching For
2007-10-20 18:46:00 The first thing you notice about Mike Huckabee is that he has a Mayberry name and a Jim Nabors face. But it?s quickly clear that Huckabee is as good a campaigner as anybody running for president this year. And before too long it becomes easy to come up with reasons why he might have a realistic shot at winning the Republican nomination: First, Republican voters here and in Iowa are restless. That means that there will be sharp movements during the last 30 days toward whoever seems fresh and hot. Second, each of the top-tier candidates makes certain parts of the party uncomfortable. Huckabee is the one candidate acceptable to all factions. Third, Huckabee is the most normal person running for president (a trait that might come in handy in a race against Hillary Clinton). He is funny and engaging ? almost impossible not to like. He has no history of flip-flopping in order to be electable. He doesn?t seem to be visibly calculating every gesture. Far from being narcissistic, he is,...
Certified lunatics
2007-10-06 00:15:00 I rarely comment on the drivel that comes from David Brooks' empty head. Today would have been to exception except this one was simply too much to ignore:The Republican CollapseBut John Cole beat me to it and his post is so good there is no reason for me to even try. As to why the Republican party is in decline John writes this: For starters, people got tired of being associated with these drooling retards. Then, when they realized that these drooling retards had ideological allies running the show in the Bush administration and then began to experience their idiotic policies, they moved from disgusted to outright hostile.Like me. It had nothing to do with Burke, and everything to do with what the party had become. A bunch of bedwetting, loudmouth, corrupt, hypocritical, and incompetent boobs with a mean streak a mile long and no sense of fair play or proportion.So what's John, a life long Republican, going to do? Screw them. I got out. They can have their party. I will vote for D...
David Brooks Finds Democratic Party Not Controlled by Netroots
2007-09-25 16:38:00 David Brooks is sure to receive a number of unfavorable blog posts over today’s column on the influence of the netroots on the Democratic Party. I’ll leave complaints over his arguments as to the impotence of the netroots to other bloggers and instead begin by noting the value of Brooks ad in countering the conservative ...
By: Liberal Values
DAVID BROOKS ON IQ
2007-09-15 04:52:00 David Brooks is one of the better columnists in the NYT (not of itself a great compliment). He does show respect for the facts most of the time. And his latest article on IQ is no exception (See also here). He does mention most of the salient findings from IQ research. Following his paper’s real ...
Video: Gwen Ifill outs Imus apologists Tim Russert, David Brooks
2007-04-16 11:45:00 Washington Week managing editor Gwen Ifill specifically named Tim Russert and David Brooks as two people who have been silent on the Imus issue, but could have spoken up. Russert and Brooks have appeared on Imus’ show several times and did not have any vocal reaction to the former radio hosts’ racially insensitive remarks while ... |
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