Saturday, August 05, 2006

David Brooks and the DLC: Best Friends Forever?


Brooks wants to go into a closet with his fellow NeoCons?

We have a better idea. How about you all go to hell now and avoid the rush.

AlterNet: David Brooks and the DLC: Best Friends Forever?:

So David Brooks wants to go into the closet with his fellow neocon incrementalists. And I thought The New York Times was a family newspaper!

There are many people out there who are baffled by the career of David Brooks, but I am not one of them. Any man willing to admit in print that he can get a boner surveying the 'awesome resumes' of marrying Ivy Leaguers on the New York Times wedding page ('you can almost feel the force of mingling SAT scores,' he coos in his book Bobos In Paradise) is always going to occupy an important spot in the American media landscape; the ruling class always needs its house bumlickers. And Brooks does the job well, although at times I think he's so craven that he does his masters a disservice. I mean, seriously -- a mansion of conservatism? Why not go all the way: The yacht of Republicanism has a great many berths ...

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