tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post2872550690640396141..comments2024-03-28T16:26:28.642-05:00Comments on driftglass: Forgiveness for Dummies by David Brooksdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-57310219356195500992015-02-16T01:18:05.914-06:002015-02-16T01:18:05.914-06:00I went to youtube and watched the video. It was i...I went to youtube and watched the video. It was incredibly painful. What a worm, squirming on that stage. The whining piety. He will never admit he was wrong, because maybe someday Iraq will get a pony. And if they don't, well, he meant well, so it's not his fault they can't be civilized like us?<br /><br />Opposition to the war? What are you talking about? Everyone who matters knew there was no choice but to send civilizing forces. And you can't say it wasn't worth it, just because the pony hasn't yet appeared. If you squint just right,you can almost see its psuedo-shadow.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-77848802880694731942015-02-11T21:06:10.657-06:002015-02-11T21:06:10.657-06:00I can see how the idea of forgiveness for one'...I can see how the idea of forgiveness for one's journalistic sins would appeal to DFB.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-53957428241436597472015-02-11T14:35:20.413-06:002015-02-11T14:35:20.413-06:00In the "A Stopped Clock Is Right Twice Per Da...In the "A Stopped Clock Is Right Twice Per Day" Department:<br /><br />A few members of the rich and upper-middle classes <i>are</i> thrown to us envious <i>sans-culottes</i> once in a while. These are the ones who have somehow angered the other grandees. These hapless souls include Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Leona Helmsley, Kenneth Lay, and Bernie Madoff. Some would include Bill and Hill, and even Tricky Dick in that group.<br /><br />I'm not saying any of those folks are nice people, but many equally despicable characters do get away with it (assuming no afterlife). Ivory Bill Woodpeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318699512583970467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-41929485733666285342015-02-11T13:51:10.527-06:002015-02-11T13:51:10.527-06:00Thank you for 'pecksniffian'.Thank you for 'pecksniffian'.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20251754447894100942015-02-11T11:41:29.698-06:002015-02-11T11:41:29.698-06:00I noted in the last comment thread that I thought ...I noted in the last comment thread that I thought this might be the David Brooks opus that finally kills our dear friend driftglass. I'm glad I misunderestimated his resilience. And glad for this rebuttal. I'd just say again that David f'n Brooks is just about the last person who has any moral standing to pontificate about the civic fabric. <br /><br />You see all the rips and vomit stains and cat piss on the civic fabric? You built it, Bobo!!! Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368238520998130967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49353275227538076582015-02-11T10:19:16.495-06:002015-02-11T10:19:16.495-06:00You and your damn facts!
I believe Goebbels's...You and your damn facts!<br /><br />I believe Goebbels's favorite author settled this whole question a long time ago:<br /><br />“But being dependent, every day of the year and for year after year, upon certain politicians for news, the newspaper reporters are obliged to work in harmony with their news sources.” <br />― Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda<br /><br />Harmony, Driftie, harmony! Not stirring up trouble with awkward facts. Geez.<br />bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-10106043824135160582015-02-11T09:09:16.013-06:002015-02-11T09:09:16.013-06:00Imagine what it must be like, to sit high atop bul...Imagine what it must be like, to sit high atop bullshit (monied) mountain (sigh), three monkeying (tm) your way through the world, creating and maintaining a bubble so thick, no vestige of reality ever penetrates. <br />The worst part is, I think the Williams nothing burger, was the last straw loaded on the back of beloved Jon Stewart.<br />Unlike Bobo and Sully, Stewart has an actual conscious, and you could see the weight of carrying all that reality on his shoulders get more and more oppressive since Colbert moved on. <br />He started to look like those before and after pictures of Presidents.<br />I think Williams and Stewart may have even been friends to some extant, and seeing his excoriation over trivia, while others atop the big money pile of bullshit mountain continued to thrive - was just too much.<br />Of course, in Bobo's mind, it was trivial because everybody knows it should be dealt with using fake contrition and some time in the penalty box; that is the right's wash cycle no matter how big the fuck up. <br />In reality it was trivia because of the gross over estimation of Brian Headroom's relevance to anything resembling credibility in the infotainment empire.<br />Phil Donahue, Ashly Banfield, Alec Baldwin, Eliot Spitzer may beg to differ with Bobo's lament.blackdaughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05554233110211227532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-56283228144448013882015-02-11T04:23:28.329-06:002015-02-11T04:23:28.329-06:00"He is writing it for the several thousand me..."He is writing it for the several thousand members of the Beltway Club who still go to bed at night a little worried"<br /><br />As (i think) Mark Twain said, a classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.<br /><br />The club doesn't actually read Brooks's crap, or watch Chuck Todd or any of that other nonsense. They just hope others do.<br /><br />The entire "centrist" media is a giant classic novel for the rich. If its viewership/readership dropped to zero, it would still be on the air/published.<br />steevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12620735494191381865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83551671316134831042015-02-11T01:14:24.757-06:002015-02-11T01:14:24.757-06:00“I say to you: Love your enemies,
do good to thos...“I say to you: Love your enemies, <br />do good to those who hate you, <br />bless those who curse you, and <br />pray for those who despitefully use you. <br />And whatsoever you believe that I would do <br />to men, do you also to them.<br /><br />“You are commissioned to save men, <br />not to judge them. <br />At the end of your earth life <br />you will all expect mercy; <br />therefore do I require of you <br />during your mortal life <br />that you show mercy to all <br />of your brethren in the flesh. <br />Make not the mistake of trying to <br />pluck a mote out of your brother’s eye <br />when there is a beam in your own eye. <br />Having first cast the beam out of your own eye, <br />you can the better see to cast the <br />mote out of your brother’s eye.<br /><br />“Discern the truth clearly; <br />live the righteous life fearlessly. <br />You have heard it said: ‘If the blind <br />lead the blind, they both shall fall into the pit.’ <br />If you would guide others into the kingdom, <br />you must yourselves walk in the clear light <br />of living truth. In all the business of the <br />kingdom I exhort you to show just judgment <br />and keen wisdom. Present not that which is <br />holy to dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, <br />lest they trample your gems under foot <br />and turn to rend you."T_P_Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05422531479839463921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-73667554068546995452015-02-11T00:35:36.987-06:002015-02-11T00:35:36.987-06:00Thank you, Mr. Driftglass. This analysis is the k...Thank you, Mr. Driftglass. This analysis is the kind of thing we had in mind back in the dark days of 1996 when the early bloggers started groping towards the ideal of a national multilateral conversation. The traditional pundits could do their thing, backed by the copious resources of the great publishing houses, but other voices might at last be heard and the cream would rise to the top.<br /><br /><i>The civic fabric would be stronger if, instead of trying to sever relationships with those who have done wrong, we tried to repair them, if we tried forgiveness instead of exiling.</i><br /><br />As to this, the civic fabric might be even stronger if people were not so regularly exiled to the outer darkness for the crime of being right in an inconvenient manner.Mike Lumishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14083545582415707582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49183174028719636732015-02-10T23:46:21.550-06:002015-02-10T23:46:21.550-06:00What a frigging great graphic!
Not to mention the...What a frigging great graphic!<br /><br />Not to mention the writing.<br /><br />You rule, baby.<br /><br />David Brooks doesn't have a chance.Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com