Wednesday, October 22, 2014

David Brooks' Big Red Car


Question of the Day:
What Would Edmund Burke Say?
By DAVID BROOKS and GAIL COLLINS
OCTOBER 21, 2014 9:26 PM
October 21, 2014 9:26 pm...

Oh!  Oh!  Call on me!  Because I'd be willing to bet that Edmund Burke would approve of David Brooks being  fed through a wood chipper.

Toes first.

But hey, that's just me speculating.

What I am certain of is that, other than serving as intellectual camouflage behind which Conservatives could further their long-range project of destroying America's capacity for self governance, Edmund Burke has never had a single fucking thing to do with the actual modern Conservative Movement in whose vanguard David Brooks has loyally and profitably served for the last 30 years.

And for you aficionados out there, it is always mildly entertaining to watch Mr. Brooks react like a bump-n-go toy every gad damn time he brushes up against even the slightest attempt trick him into leaving his Both Sider fetish dungeon and get him to fault the people running his Republican Party -- exclusively and by name -- for any of the horrid things the people running his Republican Party do every single day.
Gail: I suspect you may be right about the outcome. The Democrats are in trouble in states where a large number of people either live in empty places or tell themselves they do. There’s a lot of delusion in this game – we’ve all seen the guy who lives on Social Security and depends on Medicare for his visits to the doctor, yelling that he wants government off his back.

David: I’m not sure either party has an agenda.

Gail: You don’t think announcing that terrorists are infecting themselves with Ebola and crossing the Mexican border is an agenda?

David: As you know I’ve been depressed by the vacuousness of the campaign.
So first comes the denial/deflection/avoidance.

Which is then always and automatically followed by a big, steaming helping of completely unsubstantiated Bother Siderism:
David: ...I sort of agree that Republican proposals on what to do about all this [chronic high poverty and crippling income and opportunity inequality] are less than, er, fully developed, and have not been fully explained. But isn’t it an indictment of the Obama administration that it has made so little progress even on, say, reducing the poverty rate?
Wood-chipper.

Toes first.

Because I'm reasonably certain the person who said "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." would have wanted it that way.


10 comments:

Anonymous said...

*speechless*
Wow, I don't want to see DFB's Chiropractor bill, after he twisted himself into a pretzel with that last breathtakingly Bothsiderist comment. I'd swear I was watching Faux News (shudder), to read/hear such a reflexive blame-Obama-first statement like that. Wow.

Until each & every last reThug is chased shoeless & shirtless out of town, by the proverbial torch & pitchfork-wielding mob (and/or fed into the same woodchipper as Bobo), it's not the Obama admin'n that needs to be 'indicted'.

- Mike from CA

Green Eagle said...

Great lead-up to the punch line there.

Anonymous said...

Gail: I suspect you may be right about the outcome. The Democrats are in trouble in states where a large number of people either live in empty places or tell themselves they do. There’s a lot of delusion in this game – we’ve all seen the guy who lives on Social Security and depends on Medicare for his visits to the doctor, yelling that he wants government off his back.

*****And we in the media ignores it, does not present the proper air time quality information addressing it. Media folks like me, aid and abet you and your political agenda, correct?*******

David: I’m not sure either party has an agenda.

****** No agenda? Repeal and replace, Voter suppression? Deregulation of banks?
privatize Social Security? Tort reform? "our number one priority is to make Obama a one term president"?****

Gail: You don’t think announcing that terrorists are infecting themselves with Ebola and crossing the Mexican border is an agenda?

****Agenda, No. A false fear mongering campaign strategy. Like the voter suppression laws are strategic campaign ploys. That if successful will put the GOP in elected office to impose their agenda.************

David: As you know I’ve been depressed by the vacuousness of the campaign.

******Gail; If the conservative campaign propaganda strategy is successful and republicans gain more elected power. Your depression by vacuousness shall be the least of your new found problems.*************

As the 6 year old wrote with a crayon,
" A lie will travel far,wide and fast. While the truth is still putting on it's shoes for the race".

driftglass said...

FYI --

Blogger will let me publish, delete, remove or mark a comment as "spam" but I can't edit or amend it.

Yastreblyansky said...

Professor Corey Robin, a great Brooksologist who rarely indulges, also knows Burke quite a bit better than Brooks knows, say, his own Rainy Day Column Prompts file. Worth a read.

Neo Tuxedo said...

other than serving as intellectual camouflage behind which Conservatives could further their long-range project of destroying America's capacity for self governance, Edmund Burke has never had a single fucking thing to do with the actual modern Conservative Movement in whose vanguard David [Fucking] Brooks has loyally and profitably served for the last 30 years.

Are we talking about the same Edmund Burke who wrote this encomium to poor stupid Marie Antoinette?

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.

("The Queen of France just touchd this Globe.
And the Pestilence darted from her robe."
-- William Blake, The French Revolution, unpublished)

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.

The dirty fucking hippies killed our God-chosen queen, man, and it's all been downhill ever since. That sounds like a sentiment very much in line with Our Mr. Brooks' preferred role comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted.

dinthebeast said...

I was sort of hoping for "buggered to death by a sheep", but "wood chipper, toes first" does have a certain charm to it.

-Doug in Oakland

Robt said...

I hear Morning Joe rating are in the septic tank. Tried everything to breakdown the build up. There is no known effective enzyme.

Maybe MSNBC might consider a entirely new show.
--Call it, Rude Awakening"

With a power studded ego infested 3 HOST panel'
1)
George Will
2)
David Brooks
3)
Bill Kristol

Consider the possibilities?


MSNBC would truly have us all "leaning Forward".
Reaching for the remote, that is........

Let the egos and ideologies soar.

MSNBC,,the Eagle has landed!

Oh,
To create the environment of competition, we will make the show open carry.

Redhand said...

As you know I’ve been depressed by the vacuousness of the campaign.

Matched only by the utter vacuousness and meretriciousness in your comment, you whore.

marindenver said...

" it is always mildly entertaining to watch Mr. Brooks react like a bump-n-go toy every gad damn time he brushes up against even the slightest attempt trick him into leaving his Both Sider fetish dungeon and get him to fault the people running his Republican Party -- exclusively and by name -- for any of the horrid things the people running his Republican Party do every single day."

Same "bump-n-go" reaction he had when that woman asked him why he insulted and ridiculed anyone who disagreed with him about the Iraq War build-up. "Who, me? I don't think I did that . . ." *Sails away*