In his weekly, cringe-inducing "Conversation" with Gail Collins, David Brooks states the following as fact:
Finally let me vent some frustration about the Democrats. I open up Mike Allen’s Politico Playbook this morning and I see the big headline, “Administration To Make Digital Textbook Push.”
That’s what the Obama revolution has come to. The country is facing decline and trillion-dollar deficits and the administration has decided to focus its energies on digital textbooks. What about the nation’s pressing eraser shortage? Or the way parking spaces at the mall seem to get narrower year by year? Surely there are dozens of completely trivial issues they can latch on to in order to mask their absence of larger plans.The Obama Administration has already proposed some very large and ambitious undertakings. Some you may agree with. Some you may not. Some you may thing don't go nearly far enough (I, for example, understand just how ambitious, deeply-focused and multidimensional the White House's manufacturing initiative could be if the are really going to get behind it and push.)
But it doesn't matter because nothing Obama Administration proposes (with the following, "everybody diving for cover" exception) is ever going to make it through the legislative abbatoire that is the Republican congress.
I could pound this simple fact home with example after example for hours, but really, why bother?
Mr. Brooks already knows all this, just as Mr. Brooks also knows that these facts doesn't matter because Mr. Brooks is not in the "truth" businesses.
He is in the "telling politically comforting Conservative lies" business.
And business is good.
Business is always good.
And if you have noticed that this post is nearly identical to the previous post regarding the lies of David Frum, you are correct.
Mr. Frum and Mr. Brooks both consistently lie about the same things in the same way and are both richly rewarded for doing so, so why not?
5 comments:
I am not sure Brooks and Frum (or Sullivan for that matter)do know any better...really.
Given that those three are what passes for intelligentsia in the right wing world these days, and their recent occasional flirtations with pointing out some of the more glaringly obvious problems with the rabid mob that has taken over (as you have pointed out, a mob they built...)What they are doing now is rationalizing their own massive cognitive dissonance.
Brooks trying to wrap his racism in a nice bit of socio-bable, as if it were all some abstract ant farm put here for his curiosity.
Sullivan blurting out piece after piece about some other planet where Reagan loved teh gays..until all these ugly mean people showed up at the party out of nowhere...
I mean, who is their target audience any more...really?
Hell, didnt Buckley's own spawn defect a year or two back??
I think what we are seeing here is a psychological phenom:
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/04/0956797611421206.abstract
Of course they all know better.
That's why they get their nice jobs that are so well remunerated.
Testical cozy jobs (as you have so well designated). (Or is that a hyphenated unit modifier?)
And they do them so well.
Keep the nonfaith!
Love ya,
S
These guys really, really, really want to see their heads on pikes, don't they?
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair, who never saw a postmodern neighborhood in his life
Brooks of course tap-dances his way through these "Conversations," but Gail Collins usually gets off a few pretty good shots. Example:
"When analyzing the plans of candidates like Newt Gingrich, it is important to consider the question of whether he’s got anything else pressing on his calendar for the next six months. My guess is that as long as somebody’s fronting for the private plane rides, he’s good to go. But the first day he finds himself in Delta coach, the race is over."
And (answering Bobo's Bofuddlement on why Mitt's having such a hard time establishing cred with the lunatics):
"The only reason is Mitt-aversion. They’d rather have the nation’s health care problems not solved by somebody they feel more comfortable with."
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