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Lack O Stimulus Fest
Paul Krugman is a ''pretty good'' columnist? (This may not be the exact quote, but that's the gist.) If the world had been listening to him a year or two (or more) ago, we wouldn't be in nearly the economic mess we are in now. But David Brooks writes a snarky column that you can all relate to as DC dwellers (or former dwellers), and this makes ...
Posted to Gabfest by ginja on February 6, 2009
David Brooks assessment
I found your assessment interesting because I wanted to learn more about David Brooks. I've admired his intelligence, insights, wit, and personality on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the recent political conventions. His delivery is refreshing and he gives plenty of new perspectives on issues---enough to get me thinking more deeply and ...
Posted to Assessment by stranas on September 7, 2008
Michael Kinsley On David Brooks
David Brooks is NOT intellectually honest. What he is very good at is APPEARING to be intellectually honest (mostly via the vehicle of a well scrubbed earnestness) while actually acting as an apologist for the most irrational, inconsistent, and ugly of Movement Conservative views. I am sure it makes him very valuable, and that he makes good ...
Posted to The Chat Room by tc125231@yahoo.com on February 28, 2008