BY TOM TOMORROW
If I believed anyone actually made decisions based upon what David Brooks has to say, this would be infuriating. Not that it will do him much good at this point, but I owe John Kerry an apology. I recently mischaracterized some comments he made to Larry King in December 2001. I said he had embraced …
As Iraq spins out of control, right-wingers like David Brooks (recently dubbed “Baghdad Brooks” by the blogs) try to spin it back into something comprehensible, as though the killing and chaos can be smoothed over with rhetoric alone. And for some reason, I keep thinking of the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy …
…my little mini-expose of Tom Friedman’s use of a demonstrably false anecdote (still waiting for that correction!), you’ll really, really enjoy this exercise in factchecking David Brooks (via Atrios): There’s just one problem: Many of his generalizations are false. According to Amazon.com sales data, one of Goodwin’s strongest markets has been deep-Red McAllen, Texas. That’s …
On one side, David Brooks once again strives to solidify his position as the single most achingly banal columnist working anywhere in any media: Edwards talks about poverty in economic terms. He vows to bring jobs back to poor areas and restrict trade to protect industries. He suggests that if we could take money from …
David Brooks’ column is probably the strongest evidence of pervasive liberal bias at the Times. Okay, the editors thought, we’ve taken some hits lately with this whole Blair/Raines business. We’ll reassert our objectivity by adding a conservative voice to the Op-Ed page. But — they say, allowing themselves just a hint of a smile — …