tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3469633297121055067..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks: The Great Project Continues, Ctd.*driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21272684145326860402015-02-18T00:01:17.257-06:002015-02-18T00:01:17.257-06:00I have to say that this piece is the most shipshod...I have to say that this piece is the most shipshod and intellectually dishonest -- to the point of being unintentionally hilarious -- piece I have ever seen DFB write. <br /><br />The bizarre limiting of free market economy's flaws to "the lessons of the last quarter-century"; the unbelievable matching of Larry Summers against Rarco Rubio -- not to mention labeling Rubio as "the most intellectually creative of the presidential contenders" -- and the glib characterization of income inequality as a "big hairy problem" that really need only be considered in the contest of presidential election posturing, truly expose DFB as just about the shabbiest conservative hack in the business.<br /><br />It also makes his employer a laughingstock, albeit a cruel one. <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1688532/Caligulas-horse" rel="nofollow">Incitatus</a> would be a better choice than DFB as NYT columnist, given "free rein" to deposit this horseshit into the stream of public debate.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08880308031096340258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-48137533923101139272015-02-17T22:10:18.974-06:002015-02-17T22:10:18.974-06:00Pleasure. That is such a perfect sentence.Pleasure. That is such a perfect sentence.Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-24063044317249330662015-02-17T11:49:16.212-06:002015-02-17T11:49:16.212-06:00Link To Dean Baker:
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/...Link To Dean Baker:<br />http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-making-historypdorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02314138435295648640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-84644545991448427912015-02-17T07:53:09.761-06:002015-02-17T07:53:09.761-06:00Drifty, I don't think that last paragraph is w...Drifty, I don't think that last paragraph is what you wanted to quote from the Baker essay.Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.com