#HillaryMen: Pass the Smelling Salts - David Brooks Comes Unhinged Over Hillary (HILLARY GROUP)
The New York Times has been on a self-destructive mission to undermine Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, ditching any claims to neutrality or journalistic ethics in a desperate institutional effort to take her down.
We’ve tracked their transgressions, from the outright lies about her State Department emails to Maureen Dowd’s Rove-fueled vendetta.
Now we have David Brooks with a self-righteous and frankly, unhinged column about Hillary’s position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Here's Brooks:
"Nobody had figured this out until, brilliantly, Hillary Clinton. She is campaigning on a series of positions that she transparently does not believe in. She’ll say what she needs to say now to become Bernie Sanders in a pantsuit (wait, Bernie Sanders already wears a pantsuit!). Then, nomination in hand and White House won, she will, it appears, transparently flip back and embrace whatever other positions she doesn’t believe in that will help her succeed in her new role. It was so naked it amounted to a bold and clarion statement of faith on behalf of flip-flopping itself. It suggested a whole style of campaigning and method of governing based on the principle of unprincipledness."
Even if, for the sake of argument alone, we grant Brooks his premise that Hillary’s position involves a calculus that combines policy with politics (something every other politician and person does), his bitter tone betrays something deeper. Men like Brooks feel viscerally threatened by a strong woman. Their defensive crouch is disdain and disrespect. Nothing about Hillary’s posture on TPP warrants the dripping sarcasm and anger spilling out of Brooks.
“Bernie Sanders in a pantsuit”
“Politically convenient”
“Opportunist”
“Lack of authenticity”
These phrases are so common on the op-ed pages of the New York Times that opinions editor Andrew Rosenthal might as well order the composition room to keep them permanently in type, so easily are they dropped into the latest Dowd, Brooks or Frank Bruni column. Saves time and money and fits the paper’s institution-wide offensive against the most viable female presidential candidate in American history....
http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/david-brooks-unhinged-over-ahillary via #HillaryMen (Peter Daou and Tom Watson)
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And of course Brooks, that infernal hack, will use them. I expect to see this in glowing terms elsewhere on this board - cause it proves once again, that "Hillary's bad". 
