tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post2060994159124205883..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: Today In Both Sides Do It: David Brooks of the New York Timesdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-87431889024415875562016-07-13T18:13:03.705-05:002016-07-13T18:13:03.705-05:00I had forgotten all about Pozner. Great analogy. ...I had forgotten all about Pozner. Great analogy. I saw him run rings around poor overmatched Phil Donahue one weekday. Very reminiscent of MSMs onability to handle GOP de deptionsm.<br />DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07028914866224205206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64456926642069077592016-07-13T17:11:42.827-05:002016-07-13T17:11:42.827-05:00". . . a patrician dilettante that fancies hi...". . . a patrician dilettante that fancies himself as a man of letters."<br /><br />Exactly. I'm so inured to what a lightweight this guy is, I forget people take him seriously prancing around in his toga as a "public intellectual". However, he's about as patrician as Jay Gatsby.<br /><br />bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5993625493974267682016-07-13T10:57:07.508-05:002016-07-13T10:57:07.508-05:00Good point on Bobo as the rights Pozner. Except P...Good point on Bobo as the rights Pozner. Except Poz was talented, well trained, professional propagandist, and Bobo is a patrician dilletante that fancies himself as a man of letters.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06518025949949879535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-53589743570257424982016-07-13T08:07:09.303-05:002016-07-13T08:07:09.303-05:00"The F.B.I. director’s statements reminded us..."The F.B.I. director’s statements reminded us that Hillary Clinton is willing to blatantly lie to preserve her career."<br /><br />This sentence is proof Brooks et al. got marching orders sometime last week that the Email/FBI thing will be the "thinking conservative" talking point to attack Hillary, ignore Trump, and allow them to paint the coming 60-40 (or more) Clinton win as voters "holding their noises and picking the lesser evil." <br /><br />The media will definitely NOT be allowed to say it is a national electoral majority preference toward Democratic policy over Republican policy for the THIRD straight presidential election. Exit polling showing double digit gaps in key voting blocks be damned!<br /><br />trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31101016629918404452016-07-13T01:51:04.470-05:002016-07-13T01:51:04.470-05:00Gee, what happened to Turd Blossom's email tha...Gee, what happened to Turd Blossom's email that he was supposed to cough up?<br /><br />What does HRC emails have to do with 4 people that died in Benghazi?<br /><br />Am radio screams that 4 people died. More serious than how many died and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.<br /><br />They adored Comey up until he found nothing to indict. We all see the egotistical<br /> anger when the House GOP calls Comey to their theater for a drama class.<br /><br />For Speaker Ryan to place his face on TV and say he is going to stop HRC from getting the security briefings as presidential candidate.<br /><br />For a fiscal conservative, Ryan wrote another check his mouth cannot cash.<br /><br />They are desperate and need to keep the conspiracy alive to feed their base more false promises until the election. Old faithful works on their base. Keep them fed.!<br />That is why Chaffez wants to open another committee to investigate.<br /><br />One thing for sure, America will never be able to afford infrastructure when they continue to fund these quill expeditions.<br /> Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-9693059757070208142016-07-12T21:53:54.496-05:002016-07-12T21:53:54.496-05:00@bowtiejack -- thanks for that. Confidential nowad...@bowtiejack -- thanks for that. Confidential nowadays, with the enormous inflation of security classification, what used to be FOUO (For Official Use Only), which got slapped on nearly everything even though it wasn't supposed to be considered "classification." Actually, I think that Secret is the new Confidential. So much of it is banal trivia. And then there's the practice of calling classified any public discussion of topics that are actually classified, unless you happen to be an administration spokesman whose "leaks" are approved. So we have email comments on a Washington Post story called "classified" because the drone program is classified.Procopiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17554355440319405363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31693893624807507612016-07-12T20:21:43.223-05:002016-07-12T20:21:43.223-05:00Billo the clown has a degree in history too. Doesn...Billo the clown has a degree in history too. Doesn't mean he knows a damn thing about it. The Krakenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09384401125404650604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39965487960928286972016-07-12T15:48:34.408-05:002016-07-12T15:48:34.408-05:00OK, you probably already read this, but here's... OK, you probably already read this, but here's a link to it just in case you didn't:<br /><br />http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-big-part-missing-from-all-your-is.html<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5676465669774150572016-07-12T15:09:48.958-05:002016-07-12T15:09:48.958-05:00What Doug in Oakland said.
And about those emails...What Doug in Oakland said.<br /><br />And about those emails. I had some experience with security classification in both the military and the DOJ.<br /><br />Two GOP congressional mooks now want Hillary investigated for perjury about 2 or 3 emails [out of 30,000] that might have been marked [in code, of course] "confidential". <br /><br />Excuse me "confidential" is the security equivalent of the door marked "Employees Only". What could they be hiding back there? Uh, nothing? No one in the bidness thinks that anything marked "confidential" is actually secure. It is to security classification what vanilla is to ice cream - the default choice. <br />bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72336089260148324392016-07-12T14:09:36.458-05:002016-07-12T14:09:36.458-05:00 Do you suppose DFB reflects in a mirror? Or was t... Do you suppose DFB reflects in a mirror? Or was that your point? <br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-50509907844121110042016-07-12T12:54:14.415-05:002016-07-12T12:54:14.415-05:00What I want to know. What I need most to know. I...What I want to know. What I need most to know. Is, what David Brooks cab driver of the day says? No matter if it be Guido, Ashmud, or Louie Gohmert.<br /><br />I mean who cares what green stuff oozes out of Brook's mental head injury.<br /><br />Shouldn't David Brooks simply report on what his cab driver of the day says and let us decide?Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18566028214989776542016-07-12T12:49:30.046-05:002016-07-12T12:49:30.046-05:00Which blatant lies regarding the emails were suppo...Which blatant lies regarding the emails were supposed to get Hillary indicted by the FBI, exactly? As opposed to the not-blatant lies that Trump and his enablers spew damn near every time they open their mouths.<br /><br />Five bucks says Bobo weasels his way around to supporting Drumpf shortly after the Donald is officially nominated, and Bobo's dreams of the GOP resurrecting Reagan's corpse are dashed to pieces.<br /><br />Thanks for the sanity checks, Driftglass. Keep up the fight. And for FSM's sake, stop being so damn strident.duquesne_pdxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741121985491756399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-34637079909629493342016-07-12T11:26:06.070-05:002016-07-12T11:26:06.070-05:00"Are We on the Path to National Ruin?"
..."Are We on the Path to National Ruin?"<br /><br />It certainly must have seemed that way to the people in Hitler's bunker in 1944 projecting their own imminent demise onto the greater world outside. Seems to me to explain the reaction of Brooks and his cohort to the wheels starting to come off The Great Conservative Project. bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-81087080329633453832016-07-12T11:09:26.841-05:002016-07-12T11:09:26.841-05:00I thought it was George Santayana rather than Edmu...I thought it was George Santayana rather than Edmund Burke who said that first quote (or maybe they both said it). But seriously, this guy was a Univ. of Chicago history major? The roots of fascism go much farther back than WW I and the Treaty of Versailles. Gawd, this man is so shallow! <br />Also, he has now decided to go right down to equating Hillary and Trump as equally bad and unable to lead. I knew that sooner or later he was going to go there after his fake journey to real Murrica bombed out. Sorry, DFB, I know you have to continue paying your dues to the GOP but that equivalency is just not flying at all with the majority of the people. The only ones buying it are people who were never, ever going to vote for her anyway.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-91953841709531448962016-07-12T11:09:24.982-05:002016-07-12T11:09:24.982-05:00As I recently posted over at Yastreblyansky:
HOW ...As I recently posted over at Yastreblyansky:<br /><br />HOW TO WRITE A DAVID BROOKS COLUMN<br />1. Get dichotomy frame from supplies<br />2. Decorate with 800 words of BS.<br />3. Turn in to editor.<br /><br />bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-58881679613289758812016-07-12T11:03:51.953-05:002016-07-12T11:03:51.953-05:00Santayana, not Burke. Unless there's a gag in ...Santayana, not Burke. Unless there's a gag in there that I missed.Kiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652157502257079776noreply@blogger.com