Archive for the ‘David Brooks is a dickhead’ Category
David Brooks Is Always Wrong-Yeshiva Bocher edition
David Brooks is the plausible half of the Times’ con-op pair; Douthat, to be sneered at later, is the best known for not being as overtly, epically awful as William Kristol. (Talk about the subtle bigotry of low expectations.) Brooks’ trick, the one he’s mastered as his inferiors on the Right bloviating bench have not, [...]
February 19, 2012
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Tom Levenson · 
105 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead, My Own Theological Premises About The Nature Of Sex
An Exaltation of Larks, A Surfeit of Targets
Maybe it really is too late. Classical empires lasted centuries: the Han Dynasty held sway for 400 years, barring that brief unpleasantness with Wang Mang. The Romans had a similar run, depending on how you choose to bracket the rise and fall. The Mongols were a little less permanent, but for all their brutal kin-slaughter [...]
February 1, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 83 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead, Daydream Believers, DC Press Corpse, Decline and Fall
Divorced From Reality
It’s finally happened: somebody’s managed to penetrate David Brooks’s neutronium denial shield and impress upon him that the American economy isn’t so hot for the proles at the Applebee’s salad bar, and all that manages to come tumbling out is that Both Sides Do It. Democrats claim America is threatened by the financial elite, who [...]
January 31, 2012
· Zandar · 262 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, David Brooks is a dickhead, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Our Failed Media Experiment, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot
Mr. Brooks: stalked by his youth…
The pundits/gasbags of Wingnutopia are focused on the The Professor. Some like Rushbo are moving towards a full embrace of Scarborough’s Gingrich meme: “Who was the last person to actually cut government? Who was the last person who actually led a movement that balanced the federal budget? . . . The last time there was [...]
December 9, 2011
· Dennis G. · 80 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Clown Shoes, Crazification Factor, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead, Election 2012, Open Thread
By The Way, David Brooks Is Still Always Wrong
I know this is already long since fishwrap, but amidst the many disembowelings of David Brooks discovery that he has always been at war with Eurasia always loved Mittens, I have to rage, rage, at the relentless, endless, fetishization of the deepest, most degrading fantasy of the right. No, not that one. Nor that one [...]
November 13, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 53 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Uncategorized, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
David Brooks Blames Victims for Cain Scandal; Ignores His Own Brush With Sexual Harassment
Both sides do it! Why the New York Times continues to allow David Brooks to crap all over the opinion page, I will never understand. Picking up where DougJ left off, Brooks’s comments about the Cain scandal are so fraught with fail and stupid, I’m surprised his brain didn’t short-circuit and burn out while writing this drivel: [...]
November 2, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 59 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, David Brooks is a dickhead, Vagina Outrage
Guilty As Charged
I can’t sleep, and if you are up, you are either in a different time zone or in the same boat as me. At any rate, I recommend you read this Charles Pierce indictment of Bobo. I have nothing to add other than that I hope Pierce discovers Ross Douthat and then the douchebags at [...]
November 2, 2011
· John Cole · 46 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead
Open Thread – Mitt Romney is a [Insert curse word of choice here]
I’m loath to mention John Podhoretz’s column at the Post. All the weak jokery, metaphor torturing and general brown-nosery might put you off your morning tea and scones. And that’s just in the bit I write. What might happen if you were actually to read Mr Pod’s random concatenation of claptrap and bunkum – all [...]
October 19, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 53 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks is a dickhead, Open Thread, Sociopaths
A hand me down dress from who knows where
Bobo summarized: protesting is hard, let’s go make third parties. A sad effort, since Bobo doesn’t usually crib from D-listers like Matt Miller. Also too, Bobo says some crazy shit that may irritate even the most Vichy liberal tote-baggers. Relatedly, Kthug asks: A question to which I think I know the answer: A number of [...]
October 10, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 64 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Guitars Not Guillotines, Jump! You Fuckers!
Witless For The Defense, Your Honor
New guy gets to handle the “I Read These Morons So You Don’t Have To” category, right? And hey, this time it’s easy, it’s really pretty much all there in Bobo’s article title: In Defense of Romney And it goes precisely as you expect it would. The central problem is that Mitt Romney doesn’t fit [...]
October 5, 2011
· Zandar · 27 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks is a dickhead, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To
Brooks & Dumb: Serious As A Case of Shingles
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) ... which won’t kill you, but might make you wish you were dead. For purposes of relief via moxicautery, a couple counter-irritants. Jonathan Chait at TNR wonders “Will No One Rid Me of This Meddlesome Candidate?”: ... Yes, it’s really time for somebody to start persuading moderate or mainstream Republicans that [...]
August 27, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 70 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, David Brooks is a dickhead, Perry-tinnitus, Republican Stupidity
Between thought and expression
What made Bush such a bad president? I lay awake at night wondering about this sometimes. Today, Jonathan Bernstein revisits the question with a link back to an interesting piece he wrote last year. I think this is right: We’re still early in the building of the history of the Bush years, but here’s my [...]
August 22, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 52 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks is a dickhead, We Are All Mayans Now
Slippery Angry Black Man Ruins Chances of Agreement
Sorry to do this to you, but Bobo is a masterpiece this morning: Alas, the dream of a Grand Bargain died Friday evening for three reasons. First, it was always going to be difficult to round up the necessary Congressional votes. Republicans didn’t want the tax increases. Democrats didn’t want the entitlement cuts. Second, the [...]
July 26, 2011
· John Cole · 170 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, David Brooks is a dickhead, Our Failed Media Experiment, Sociopaths
The Sad Long Life of David Brooks
Yesterday I posted a link to David Brooks’ most recent magnum vomitus in which he referenced an article by Dudley Clendinen called “The Good Short Life”. Clendinen’s article is a beautiful, brutal, prickly and funny thing, which you should read immediately, if you have not yet had the pleasure. It will be the best thing [...]
July 17, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 59 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, David Brooks is a dickhead, Rare Sincerity
How long is it until we can leave David Brooks out on a hillside to die?
As I have mentioned before, I try very hard not to read anything that David Brooks writes, just in case my brain becomes so revolted it tries to crawl out my ears. His most recent excresence, however, is so appalling, such a pile of unthinking horror topped off with scads of twaddle masquerading as sympathy, [...]
July 15, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 97 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks is a dickhead, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, World's Best Healthcare (If You Can Afford It)
