Is always full of helpful suggestions.
In fact, today he wrote a whole column's worth.
In fact, they pub-slushed it in "The New York Times".
In fact, it is the same column he has written 1,000,000 times before.
It is called the "Both sides do it" tango.
It has exactly one lyric.
Both sides do it...
Both sides do it...
Both sides do it...
Both sides do it...
The Lost Decade?Then, without so much as a hint of irony, America's Greatest Conservative Intellectual concludes his 1,000,000th robotic repetition of this same repeatedly and massively-debunked concatenation of cultural, political, historical and economic lies as follows:
By DAVID BROOKS
...
No single one of these currents prolongs the crisis. It is the product of the complex interplay between them. To put it in fancy terms, the crisis is an emergent condition — even more terrible than the sum of its parts.
Yet the ideologues who dominate the political conversation are unable to think in holistic, emergent ways. They pick out the one factor that best conforms to their preformed prejudices and, like blind men grabbing a piece of the elephant, they persuade themselves they understand the whole thing.
Many Democrats are predisposed to want more government spending...
When President Obama’s stimulus package produced insufficient results, they didn’t concede that maybe there are other factors at play, which mitigated the effects. They just called for more government spending...
Many Republicans, meanwhile, are predisposed to want lower taxes and less regulation...
Both orthodoxies take a constricted, mechanistic view of the situation. If we’re stuck with these two mentalities, we will be forever presented with proposals that are incommensurate with the problem at hand.
...
The world economy has many rigidities.
The worst ones are in people’s heads.
Because why the Hell wouldn't he?
*From Wiki:
Gríma, called (the) Wormtongue, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...He is introduced in The Two Towers as the chief advisor to King Théoden of Rohan and henchman of Saruman. Gríma serves as an archetypal sycophant, flatterer, liar, and manipulator.
Also, if you want to know what will get your comment removed from Mr. Brooks' comments section:
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Apparently this --
The worst mental rigidity of all?-- did the trick.
Obsessively repeating the same massively-debunked Centrist false-equivalence lies in column after column after column after column after column...
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Right.
Ny times usually erases comments which accuse the columnist of lying or bad faith. I had a comment removed which said Michele Bachmann was evil.
By contrast Paul Krugman calls out the NYT's own center-fetishist & business babble-speaker Tom Friedman Unit for not noticing that each one of his fantasy recommendations for what would happen if 'both sides' would be willing to come together around a common sense solution...
...is in fact the current position of the Democratic Party.
Calling lies "lies?" You'll never make it as a "reporter."
Here's another for the NYT moderation pit:
With apologies to Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man such as David Brooks to not understand something, unless his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Krugman makes it pretty clear that moderation is the columnist's responsibility. So that's Bobo or a minion of Bobo doing the deletion.
Interesting.
As someone who has totally given up on the political process, my only comment is "Dude, forget LOTR. Read the Song of Ice and Fire saga."
http://i.imgur.com/PwiDo.jpg
Uh, comments on Times columns don't get published until they're first approved by a moderator. Did the moderator change its mind? Did someone work the ref?
I left a comment on that column expressing a similar sentiment. It never saw the light of day.
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