David Brooks:The American people want a bully in the White House

[bigdarryl]

And these are the same idiots who claim Obama is abusing his power.OH I forgot he's black so they want a bully in a President as long as he's WHITE!!! http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/david-brooks-circles-wagons-christie

[JoePhilly]

1. +1

[tenderfoot]

2. Bullies like who? Dick Cheney and George W. Bush?

That worked out well.

[get the red out]

29. That's what I was thinking

What he should have said is that the tiny minority, known as the Tea Party, don't want democracy at all in this country.

[JaneQPublic]

45. Or Mitt, or Newt, Or Rudy?

The GOP never fails to offter the public a variety of bullies to choose from.

In fact, you could say that the bully mentality is pretty much built into their party platform.

[Paladin]

3. At what point (if ever) does Brooks realize he's a national laughing stock?

I mean, does anybody consider this fuckstick to be a serious journalist, anymore? All I see now is jokes and satire at his expense.....

[rurallib]

42. I would guess when somebody stops paying him

until then I have no doubt he feels his blather is some of the most valuable blather in the universe.

[madinmaryland]

51. He's not a journalist (or even a journo). He's an opinion writer. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. It's just David Brooks. Everybody knows he's a damn fool.

He's among the "pundits" who make their living by decorating bird cage liners with little squiggly marks no one notices, like Thomas Friedman.

[HughBeaumont]

41. . . . and just like Tommy Bucksbaum, Brooks is in love with his own legend.

[liberal N proud]

5. I don't think they know the level of hypocrisy to which they stoop.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. Good. Obama, that's your mandate. n/t

[ceeRoy]

43. Oh Boy!!

how fast would they change that tune if Obama employed those tactics....these people are total hypocrites!

[Blue Owl]

7. Speak for yourself, Fucko

n/t

[phantom power]

8. what a perfect distillation of conservatism

If you aren't willing to make millions of other people miserable, and/or endanger them, as a means to your own petty personal ends, you Aren't A Real Man.

[jsr]

9. David Brooks speaks for the American people.

LOL. Such a pompous delusional tool.

[tblue37]

10. Wanna bet Brooks was the kind of suck-up in school who stood behind the bullies,

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applauding their abuse of others and hoping not to end up as the bully's next target?

[kairos12]

19. There is no doubt of that.

[Bigmack]

38. I disagree...

I think he was a bully-magnet. Now he imagines himself as getting back at them by being a journalistic bully... laying into the effeminate liberals.

I never bullied, but I've always had the overwhelming urge to give that little peckerhead an atomic wedgie followed by a swirly.

Daily.

[Marr]

11. Bullshit, and also... did anyone else read that title in the tune of

Mirror in the Bathroom?

Bully in the White House.... you're my Bully in the White House...

[jeff47]

12. Keep in mind Brooks is always wrong.

If he says it's sunny outside, you know it's night.

As a result, Brooks talking up how much the country wants Christie demonstrates the country does not want Christie.

[JBoy]

13. Challenger to Bill Kristol's "always wrong" crown. n/t

[Iliyah]

14. Rove said the about the same thing

so there's the new talking point wherein the corporate media will pick up on and run with it non-stop.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. !!!!!!

And yes I was trying to sip some water when I read the OP.

These blowhards just boggle the mind. He was like a blubbering idiot -

DAVID BROOKS:

<...>

I thought it was Christie. Now, my friend Mike Murphy, the political consultant, says the essence of Christie, he doesn't come in small doses. He comes in big doses. And the challenge for Christie as a candidate has always been, will people accept somebody who comes on that strong?

But if he comes on that strong as even a little bit of a bully, which is sort of what he looks like in this, it could be that people want a bully to go to Washington. If they're going to vote for Christie, they don't want a charmer. They want a big bully. And this will not hurt him, I think.

<...>

Then he starts rambling on about "divas" -

MARK SHIELDS: What is the knock -- just one rebuttal? What is the knock on Barack Obama? A close, tightly-knit staff of ultra-loyalists, don't seek outside advice, don't go beyond that circle, detached and disengaged.

Sound familiar to the Chris Christie modus...

DAVID BROOKS: Well, the diva thing, I totally get. I totally agree with that. If the diva thing is a problem, he is a diva and that will hurt him.

[abq e streeter]

16. He does have a perfectly good reason for saying this: it 's because he's a sniveling little idiot.

[L0oniX]

17. Many American people want David Brooks to STFU.

[geardaddy]

18. Brooks is a national disgrace.

[Jackpine Radical]

22. Jeezus--the fact that Brooks toked in his youth

is maybe the strongest anti-weed argument I've heard lately. Look what the Demon Weed did to his brain!

[geardaddy]

32. Ha!

Touché!

[Ganja Ninja]

35. You can smoke all the weed you want but it can't give you a soul.

Once you sell that it's all over.

[KT2000]

20. Kim Jung Un and Christie

would make wonderful peace negotiators.
I suggest Brooks move to North Korea to find his happiness.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. I look upon Brooks as another window on the DC Villagers,...like Tweety.

[Gothmog]

23. David Brooks is an idiot

I really do not care what this idiot thinks

[JHB]

24. "people are reasonably scandal-tolerant"

It's also, it seems to me, true it's rare that a scandal, especially not a major scandal, knocks out a candidate, Bill Clinton, Gennifer Flowers. Scandals are not -- people are reasonably scandal-tolerant.

For slow-learner columnists for The New York Times: most people considered Clinton's pud-placement an issue for Hillary, not for the country. And the Republicans were so blatant in the way they were gunning for him (to the point of manufacturing "scandals" by the week), likewise, most people cut him some slack.

It's a bit different when someone uses the levers of government as their personal toys and weapons. And getting caught red-handed. Particularly when the roads are involved -- nothing esoteric there, no complex deals, and no flag-waving to hide behind.

[Ganja Ninja]

25. Pulled it straight from his ass without any strain what so ever.

This is why David Brooks has the job he has. It is his ability pull this type of pointless right wing schlock out of his ass on a moments notice. That and the fact that he has no soul, but that's the stuff right wing pundits are made of.

[CTyankee]

55. That is the best analysis of Brooks's stuff I have ever read!

Exactly! He makes stuff up as he goes along, according to what the issue du jour is. He then fantasizes his response and spins it in the NYT. It is all gossamer.

The man is a total fraud, which is probably why his wife recently divorced him. He either lives in a fantasy world or he manufactures it for hire for the NYT. I dunno which...and I don't care...

[Gordon Alf Shumway]

26. Media Ownership Concentration ...

Does everyone think David Brooks turned into this big an idiot on his own? The Corporate TV media is so over concentrated and totally controlled by corporate interests, you either learn to sing their tune, or you are not on the air. Keith Olbermann, Martin Bashir, Dylan Ratigan ...

[nolabear]

27. Is he HIGH?

[factsarenotfair]

28. There are mental patients mumbling words that make more sense than David Brooks.

This man is spreading some sort of virtual brain-eating fungus.

[DonCoquixote]

30. I hate to say it

But they do. Bill Clinton is still lauded because from the moment he got on the scene, he started insulting and bullying the sort of people we used to call "liberals."

[DinahMoeHum]

31. Sez Who, Fuck-Face? (D-bag Brooks)

n/t

[1StrongBlackMan]

33. Sadly ...

I kind of agree with Brooks' comment ... and it ain't just republicans.

Look at all the calls here for what President Obama (and Democrats) should do.

[BumRushDaShow]

36. So true. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

48. What Brooks was saying is "they want a bully who then lies"

because Brooks pointed out that Christie claimed to have known nothing about it. I think very few Americans, of any political persuasion, want that; it's more indicative of Brooks being desperate to throw up several defences of Christie, in the hope that one might persuade someone. The other man being interviewed eviscerates Brooks' attempts at argument; it's a shame the interviewer didn't point out how inconsistent Brooks was. I wish, some day, someone on TV would just say "that's nonsense, I'm not going to ask you any more questions, since you're useless, and I don't want you back on this program again."

[Dawson Leery]

34. At minimum, the 28% of dead enders who supported Bush until the bitter end certainly like

a bully. The majority of Republicans love when they have a bully on their side.

[Arkana]

37. And David Brooks continues to make bank off of being wrong.

Tragically, 100% wrong.

[Initech]

39. Makes sense. Nixon, Reagan, Bush, and W were all bullies.

[treestar]

40. They had their chance with Gramps and the Mittens

But apparently declined.

[Cha]

50. Excellent POINT. nm

[nxylas]

44. I see your David Brooks and raise you Joseph Curl

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Apologies for linking to the Washington Moonie Times, but this article goes even further and claims that Christie's press conference could teach Obama a thing or two about how to handle the media; http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/12/curl-chris-christies-handling-of-bridgegate-school/



Edit: Thomas Sowell is now saying the same thing. Must be the Republican talking point du jour.

[adieu]

46. We had several bullies in the WH

Reagan, Bush I and II, Nixon, of course...

I can't see how we want that ever again.

Obama, for all his faults, have been a master foreign policy player. Iran is shutting down their uranium enrichment plant, Qaddafi, Mubarak, and several other undesirables have been taken down without any overt US intervention (overt, of course, because you know there were some sub-rosa intervention: the US doesn't let any country do anything without some input by the US).

Obama's main weakness has been with the domestic handling of corporations, especially in the insurance and finance sectors.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

47. in other words rich Republicans want a bully in the White House

And Russians "like" Putin. We're not Russia.

[Skraxx]

49. Here David, Let Me Help You Fix That:

The American people (David Brooks) want a (WHITE) bully in the White House

[Dirty Socialist]

52. White???

Darn! I was going to vote for the leader of the New Black Panthers for Prez. Oh well...

[Dirty Socialist]

53. A Quote from Henry Kissinger:

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

David Brooks has a man crush on Christie.

[WatermelonRat]

54. It's not entirely untrue.

"Bullies" in the political sense tend to excel at getting things done. Lyndon Johnson had this down to an art, which was part of why he was able to get so much landmark legislation through congress.

[mnhtnbb]

56. No, Brooks, it's a bully pulpit, not a bully in the pulpit. Dumba$$.