Is David Brooks a ten-year-old? Or lush?

[valerief]

The NY Times today
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/opinion/29brooks.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

Can someone explain this?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. I had an immediate urge to try and wipe my ass with my monitor.

Inexplicable.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Or possibly plagiarized

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3876839&mesg_id=3876839

[Mabus]

3. The two aren't necessarily exclusive

Brooks is both.

[godai]

4. Classic rovian politics...mocking and mean

From the article - "As a child, I was abandoned by my parents and lived with a colony of ants. We didn’t have much in the way of material possession, but we did have each other and the ability to carry far more than our own body weights. When I was young, I was temporarily paralyzed in a horrible anteater accident, but I never gave up my dream: the dream of speaking at a national political convention so my speech could be talked over by Wolf Blitzer and a gang of pundits."

[Virginia Dare]

5. He was a real Debbie Downer on PBS last night..

he said Obama was speaking too much to the base and not enough to Americans....awwww it'll be awright Davey....:hug:

[BlooInBloo]

6. I wonder what it must be like to be such a sad little man?

[Pryderi]

7. The smell of sweaty desperation.

[grantcart]

8. he is a psuedo intellectual whose cheerleading gave cover for the

establishment to join a rush to war and the deaths of 100,000 of Iraqis.

He has spent the last 7 years saying that the administration will turn it around in 6 months and now that their are only 5 months left he is left with nothing left but childish rants.

The comments left by readers is very interesting. Cynical being the most often used adjective.

[fifthoffive]

9. Erm..

head explosion?

That was an editorial? Pfft. Not even good satire. Typical conservative humor. They seem completely incapable of structuring a joke with more sophistication than a fifth grader.

Brooks is a tool.

[Emit]

10. Read the comments - the majority are ripping into Brooks

and, of course, rightly so

[valerief]

11. The NY Times is as much a joke as Brooks. nt

[Left Is Write]

12. Wow. I'm glad I have no idea what it feels like to be so small and mean.

[Trajan]

13. I used to have a grudging respect of David Brooks ...

But this is a pitiful display of adolescent silliness ...

He really stepped in his own shit with this ....

[valerief]

14. Yeah. What a creepy, creepy man. nt

[genna]

15. I tried to comment on this article at NYT...they're no longer accepting comments

David Brooks sure crapped on one singularly wonderous moment. It is so tragic that this left loving conservative just pissed away his credibility.

I am one Democrat who loved to hear Paul Gigot argue with Mark Shields on PBS. When Brooks replaced him, I was pissed because I didn't think too many people could make me hear the conservative side. Over time I was willing to hear him out.

This *&()*74 deserves a solid dressing down and NYT along with him.

[No Elephants]

16. This should get him fired.

[valerief]

17. In this world, he'll be promoted. War is peace, after all. nt