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In reply to the discussion: OMG! NYT Commenter Rips The GOP and Their Hero Ronald Reagan Apart In Spectacular Fashion [View all]JHB
(38,372 posts)3. If you like that, you should look up America's leading professor of Brooksology...
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/
Merely the latest:
Merely the latest:
David Brooks: The Great Project, Volume II -- The Panglossing
Longtime readers of this blog know of my ridiculously well-documented hypothesis that Mr. David Brooks of the New York Times has never practiced what the kids call "journalism" in any sense of the word, nor does he really write whatchacall "op-ed" columns.
Instead, the New York Times has employed Mr. David Brooks at heavy expense for the sole purpose of spinning comforting and imaginative fairy tales about a wholly imaginary "Republican Party" which exists as a collective hallucination in the minds of Mr. David Brooks, a few hundred other, lesser confidence men who live off of the same grift, a handful of extremely wealthy idiots who desperately want to believe what Mr. Brooks writes, and many thousands of cultural cowards who want to feign political sagacity while hiding out in the safe confines of the seemingly-indestructible Both Siderist bunker which Mr. Brooks has built for them.
Or, as one 100% unemployable Liberal degenerate once put it several thousand posts ago:
much more at the linkLongtime readers of this blog know of my ridiculously well-documented hypothesis that Mr. David Brooks of the New York Times has never practiced what the kids call "journalism" in any sense of the word, nor does he really write whatchacall "op-ed" columns.
Instead, the New York Times has employed Mr. David Brooks at heavy expense for the sole purpose of spinning comforting and imaginative fairy tales about a wholly imaginary "Republican Party" which exists as a collective hallucination in the minds of Mr. David Brooks, a few hundred other, lesser confidence men who live off of the same grift, a handful of extremely wealthy idiots who desperately want to believe what Mr. Brooks writes, and many thousands of cultural cowards who want to feign political sagacity while hiding out in the safe confines of the seemingly-indestructible Both Siderist bunker which Mr. Brooks has built for them.
Or, as one 100% unemployable Liberal degenerate once put it several thousand posts ago:
...it is now painfully clear that Mr. Brooks is engaged in a long-term project to completely rewrite the history of American Conservatism: to flense it of all of the Conservative social, political economic and foreign policy debacles that make Mr. Brooks wince and repackage the whole era as a fairy tale of noble Whigs being led through treacherous hippie country by the humble David Brooks.
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OMG! NYT Commenter Rips The GOP and Their Hero Ronald Reagan Apart In Spectacular Fashion [View all]
kpete
Mar 2016
OP
brooks was called bo bo(mystic science 3000 monkey man) on rising hegemon.
pansypoo53219
Mar 2016
#48
K&R. Bookmarked. So glad to have someone saying so well how I feel about Brooks !
Overseas
Mar 2016
#53
The Ruling Class is taking advantage of the carnage in the GOP. They use Trump as a bludgeon
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#7
Exactly. I knew from Rick Warren what the message was. It seemed it was important to strike
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#22
If we fail in 2016, we need to start think about breaking the mold of the two-party system -
Betty Karlson
Mar 2016
#29
more status quo, more status quo - why won't anybody vote to keep things untenable?
Betty Karlson
Mar 2016
#50
Republicans? Failed? They control the House, Senate, most state legislatures, half of the
tabasco
Mar 2016
#37
I can see the Democrats splintering in the near future into the New Republicans and
FighttheFuture
Mar 2016
#43
This was the inevitable result of one political party becoming the home of the worst of humanity.
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2016
#35
Love the Alien chestburster analogy. So spot on in describing Reagan and his various spawn.
FighttheFuture
Mar 2016
#42