David Brooks takes the "Unfrozen Caveman" tack on Cox

[Cocoa]

such a sincere, reasonable, unassuming man. Truly the "liberals' favorite conservative." :sarcasm:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/political_wrap/jan-june05/sb_6-3.html

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DAVID BROOKS: I'm not sure as some of the reporting has been. I don't claim to be an expert on SEC issues but I have been covering Chris Cox for 20 years.

JIM LEHRER: I thought you were.

DAVID BROOKS: My broker is, I hope. But Chris Cox is one of the smartest people on Capitol Hill, so I have a lot of faith in him as a person. He went to Harvard Law and Harvard College but that not withstanding.

He strikes me as a sort of a Jack Kemp Republican -- not quite in tune with the current House leadership Tom DeLay sorts, but he really goes back to the Reagan years and I think he was there with Jack Kemp.

JIM LEHRER: He worked in the Reagan administration.

DAVID BROOKS: He worked in the Reagan administration.

JIM LEHRER: He was one of the counsel --

DAVID BROOKS: And he's just someone who, is on a policy level, extremely serious. And so I have a lot of faith in him, a lot of faith in his intelligence. And I would also say as a politician when there's a scandal he will understand the importance of playing to the public about it and responding to public cries for reform
And the final thing to be said is there's no contradiction being pro-free market and wanting to crack down on the bad guys. So I just don't think it's right to pre-judge him either way.

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[tabasco]

1. LMAO ! That is one funny skit. Brooks is obviously a copycat.

Mr. Cirroc, are you ready to give your summation?

Cirroc: < stepping out> It's just "Cirroc", your Honor.. and, yes, I'm ready. < approaches the jury box > Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know - when a man like my client slips and falls on a sidewalk in front of a public library, then he is entitled to no less than two million in compensatory damages, and two million in punitive damages. Thank you.

[librechik]

2. is that from the other Brooks?

(Mel, I mean)

[tabasco]

4. Saturday Night Live

Phil Hartman played the Unfrozen Caveman.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91gcaveman.phtml

[librechik]

5. oh, yeah! That was brilliant!

thanks

[bridgit]

3. i used to think brooks had some promise...

as some kind of 'voice of reason' even if while the right side. in spite of his low-ball presentation, my sense is that he's settled into that mindset & now rather enhances whatever opinion he knows will butter his bread. whenever whoever on the right says things like this,

"So I just don't think it's right to pre-judge him either way."

you know they have played the last card in their hand.