David Brooks Disses the Netroots: "They Practice Politics So Viciously"

[omega minimo]

So, David, the Netroots PRACTICE politics viciously, while the Republicons are accomplished PROFESSIONALS at it?


Newshour Shields and Brooks

Originally Aired: July 7, 2006

Confronting the press
JIM LEHRER: Well, how what was your take on that, how the president is handling this stuff?

DAVID BROOKS: I'm a dissenter from my journalistic colleagues on how to ask questions in these things.

There is an attempt in all these press conferences to ask highly charged, highly challenging, and highly negative questions, which is a way to -- and this is done with both parties, and it's done in settings with five journalists or in a big televised press conference like this. And you get the politician's back up, and he or she never actually gives you any information. I'm much more in favor of a conversational mode to get the person to relax. And the one bit of information we got out of this press conference was when he was asked a very informational question: Were the missiles from North Korea aimed to us, could we have intercepted them?

JIM LEHRER: Yes. That was...

DAVID BROOKS: And he suggested we probably could have, though he sounded like he was talking off the top of his head.

JIM LEHRER: But that was -- interestingly enough, that was the only real news that came...

MARK SHIELDS: That came out of that.

DAVID BROOKS: Right.

JIM LEHRER: ... that came out of that. I MEAN, IF YOU DEFINE NEWS AS SOMETHING THAT WE DIDN’T KNOW BEFORE.....

DAVID BROOKS: Right.

:rofl: :cry: :evilgrin: :evilfrown:

<snip>

“Heterodox”? :shrug:

DAVID BROOKS: Yes. This is what we are going to have for two years. We're going to have independents, whether it's Joe Lieberman in Connecticut or, nationally, Hillary Clinton, or John McCain, or Rudy Giuliani, who are sort of centrist, heterodox members of their party, fighting the hard-cores. And Joe Lieberman...

JIM LEHRER: Some on the right, some on the left.

DAVID BROOKS: Right.

And this is a precursor for what we are going to see nationally. This is Joe Lieberman, who has been bipartisan, but who has been a strong liberal...and he's being challenged as not a liberal....So, I think he's highly agitated and angry. He's also agitated and angry -- and anybody would be -- by the vitriolic and vicious attacks he has withstood for the past two or three years, which can't be repeated on television. HE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF AN INTERNET ASSAULT WHICH IS UNPRECEDENTED. SO, HE IS A GUY WHO IS PRETTY ENERGIZED.

A schism among Democrats

JIM LEHRER: What has he done to Democrats who want to be the next president of the United States, in making a decision about whether they support him now, whether they support Lamont, whether they're going to support the nominee, if Lamont happens to beat Lieberman, and Lieberman goes as an independent?

DAVID BROOKS: Right. Well, he has made life difficult, especially for Hillary Clinton, because, in my conversations -- WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE NETROOTS, WHO ARE THE REAL PROBLEMS FOR LIEBERMAN, THE PEOPLE GENERATED BY THE DAILY KOS AND THE OTHER WEB SITES ( :hi: DU ) I FIND, PRIVATELY, MOST OF THE DEMOCRATS DESPISE THESE PEOPLE, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THEY PRACTICE POLITICS SO VICIOUSLY.

But they don't want to get in the crosshairs. And they don't want to offend the liberal base of primary voters. So, they want to support Joe Lieberman, but they don't want to get in the crosshairs.

[yorgatron]

1. David Brooks is a candy ass.

suck it up,you sniveling mama's boy...

[omega minimo]

3. Yes, thank you, now that we got THAT out of the way.........

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maybe someone knows who pays his $alary...............................................

[kentuck]

2. Yes, they would like to keep it a monopoly..

The can't stand the idea of competition.

[The Magistrate]

4. A Republican Shill Complaining Of Vicious Political Rhetoric, Ma'am

Is rather like a rattlesnake complaining of poison....

[ProfessorGAC]

28. More Like A Slug Complaining About Slime

The Professor

[Canuckistanian]

5. So viciously AGAINST US

Is what he meant to say.

[Mythsaje]

6. What someone needs to explain to this asshole

that ENABLING these fascist assholes isn't CENTRIST...it's a fucking betrayal.

[omega minimo]

8. Well here's an example of a truly VICIOUS statement

"I FIND, PRIVATELY, MOST OF THE DEMOCRATS DESPISE THESE PEOPLE, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THEY PRACTICE POLITICS SO VICIOUSLY."

Esp. since he know he's completely full of shit. :thumbsdown:

[TygrBright]

7. Coming from Brooks, this is priceless! N/T

[whirlygigspin]

12. oh my, the hoi polloi are disturbing the ruling class

Well that just won't do, will it? who let the rabble in, it's positively revolting...didn't they get their tax cuts too? why are they complaining?
I can barely enjoy my Sauvignon Blanc with all this talk of 'grassroots'.
I mean, who do these people think they are, anyway? If this keeps up they might even expect honest elections...and what with us then?
I fear the rabble rousing, hold fast and say nothing.

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Well the generations come
Hoy-polloy or chewing gum
Bad manners in style
And a very low profile
As the new wave rebel hoards
Scribble balls on notice boards
And the old wave hierarchy
Try to take 'em seriously
Because they have to


Upstart youth and rebels all
Who have faded to the wall
Counting points of social scale
While our water brother whale
Meets extinction on the seas
On a million wounded knees
While the taxman robs the poor
Like he's always done before
Whatever system


There are men employing men
Employing men employing men
Employing men employing men
Who fill in forms employing men
That forms a queue of paperwork
Clear stretching out into the mirk
So that nine-tenths don't produce
Holding ransom calling truce
And looking dangerous

No change
*lyrics by harper roy

[omega minimo]

19. Beautiful

who's Harper Roy

[chefgirl]

9. Oh Please

Seems we've offended Mr. Brooks' delicate sensibilities. :rofl:


THE PEOPLE GENERATED BY THE DAILY KOS AND THE OTHER WEB SITES
As if these web sites just created us out of thin air for the sole purpose of making life difficult for DINO's.
Couldn't be that we ARE the Democratic party and people like Lieberman are actually the problem. :shrug:

-chef-

[ToeBot]

10. Heterodoxal? McCain? Bullshit, he's as Homodoxal as the rest of 'em! eom

[omega minimo]

15. Time to connect the heterodox!

:bounce: :yoiks: :bounce: :toast: :bounce:

[Catrina]

11. Horrors! The Great Unwashed finally found they can have a say and

those poor elitists in DC, like David Brooks, who simply play the game and never, ever challenge the PTBS are afraid of the 'people' who aren't as tolerant of the corruption in DC nor are they willing to turn a blind eye or take orders from the WH.

What did Lieberman do to Democrats? Is he serious? :rofl: Poor Joe Lieberman, he thought he could get away with ignoring the people he is supposed to represent.

I read today that he's started his own party, and he's now on the ballot twice!! Some Democrat he is. Rather than accept the will of the people, he is determined to hold onto that seat no matter how he does it.

We are angry, that's for sure, it's just that now they get to hear about it ~ what a bunch of idiots. No wonder the country is the way it is. There was no one watching out for it, until now. The Internet will probably Joe's first target if he gets elected.

[stuckinlodi]

13. Bobo is just frightened

The netroots are rendering poor Bobo irrelevant, and he's lashing out - that's all there is to his rantings about bloggers. He's just afraid his supply of cocktail weenies will be cut off because his style of "journalism" is about to die at the hands of the blogs.

[smokey nj]

14. Viciously?......

As opposed to the warm and fuzzy Rove approach. What an asshole.

[Catrina]

16. Or 'rabid lambs' ~ which is what he called bloggers last week! He seems

to have changed his mind or else he sees lambs as vicious? He's getting a little desperate. They all really want Lieberman in office for some reason. They are so afraid of a change in the status quo!

[omega minimo]

17. He's mad cuz "rabid lambs" won't grow up to be sheeple

[Catrina]

22. *lol* ~ good one! n/t

[omega minimo]

24. Thank ewe

:evilgrin: Hi Catrina:hi:

[Catrina]

27. *rotfl* ~ ewe are on a roll ~

Do you think we can ram the point home to Brooks et al that we rabid lambs will never be the sheeple they want us to be and they better 'watch what they say' about us! :rofl:

Now you have me doing it! :hi: back atcha!

[omega minimo]

29. Well yeah cuz we're not like Dittoheads..................

they're CLONED!

[Cha]

18. "Viciously"? When you've

lost your country to a marauding passle of cutthroat oil barrons then you tend to get Serious. And he better be :scared:.

[JHB]

20. You misspelled "Vigorously" again Dave...

...just like I'm sure you really know what "most of the Democrats" think.

[oasis]

21. The same David Brooks said "neocon" was an anti-semetic codeword. Him

I'll never trust.

[burythehatchet]

23. They don't like me?

OK I'll stop and re-evaluate my politics

:rofl:

[omega minimo]

25. It was such an obvious hachet job

There's video floating around.........

from:

"There is an attempt in all these press conferences to ask highly charged, highly challenging, and highly negative questions, which is a way to -- and this is done with both parties, and it's done in settings with five journalists or in a big televised press conference like this. And you get the politician's back up, and he or she never actually gives you any information."

by now audience wonders who pays his bills...............

"HE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF AN INTERNET ASSAULT WHICH IS UNPRECEDENTED.....he has made life difficult, especially for Hillary Clinton, because, in my conversations -- WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE NETROOTS, WHO ARE THE REAL PROBLEMS FOR LIEBERMAN, THE PEOPLE GENERATED BY THE DAILY KOS AND THE OTHER WEB SITES ( DU ) I FIND, PRIVATELY, MOST OF THE DEMOCRATS DESPISE THESE PEOPLE, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THEY PRACTICE POLITICS SO VICIOUSLY."

Pot meet kettle.

"But they don't want to get in the crosshairs."

By now he is panting and huffing and puffing........

"And they don't want to offend the liberal base of primary voters."

So yer saying the "vicious" "netroots" represents the "liberal base of primary voters............." so sheer numbers means maybe not so "vicious" after all?

[pyro858]

26. Brooks is a typical media lamb

makes you want to puke listening to these cowards.