David Brooks is a condescending troll.
He bloviates on the PBS news each night, pontificating with enormous pity for his less-enlightened listeners, taking time out of his perfect day and perfect life to favor them with his enormous wisdom. I find Brooks almost impossible to watch or listen to because he is so damn smug, so sure of his own elitist superiority. And what he says is so often an apologia for actions that I find beyond apology or explanation.
But then, damn him! every once in a while Brooks makes almost complete good sense, just to confuse me. Does Brooks have a secret twin, who occasionally writes his column for him? Is Brooks bipolar, sometimes making sense, sometimes making nonsense? I don't know. But here is an example of the "Good Brooks" making a mountain of good sense about the Republican Party. (Click HERE) It is the most succinct take-down of the GOP I ever hope to read. If you read the first 2/3 of this column you will learn what is wrong with the GOP and what they need to fix. They will not do it, but they can't claim that no one ever told them what their problems are. Then toward the end of the column "Bad Brooks" surfaces once more and he turns on Obama. I wonder if Brooks' contract specifies that he has to say something nasty about Democrats in every column or they won't pay him?
Arthur
He bloviates on the PBS news each night, pontificating with enormous pity for his less-enlightened listeners, taking time out of his perfect day and perfect life to favor them with his enormous wisdom. I find Brooks almost impossible to watch or listen to because he is so damn smug, so sure of his own elitist superiority. And what he says is so often an apologia for actions that I find beyond apology or explanation.
But then, damn him! every once in a while Brooks makes almost complete good sense, just to confuse me. Does Brooks have a secret twin, who occasionally writes his column for him? Is Brooks bipolar, sometimes making sense, sometimes making nonsense? I don't know. But here is an example of the "Good Brooks" making a mountain of good sense about the Republican Party. (Click HERE) It is the most succinct take-down of the GOP I ever hope to read. If you read the first 2/3 of this column you will learn what is wrong with the GOP and what they need to fix. They will not do it, but they can't claim that no one ever told them what their problems are. Then toward the end of the column "Bad Brooks" surfaces once more and he turns on Obama. I wonder if Brooks' contract specifies that he has to say something nasty about Democrats in every column or they won't pay him?
Arthur
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