David Brooks says a Republican senator groped his thigh at a dinner party

[babylonsister]

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/10/brooks-republican-senator-thigh/


David Brooks: A Republican senator put ‘his hand on my inner thigh’ for a ‘whole’ dinner party. »


Earlier this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about how “the dignity code” has been “completely obliterated” in Washington, DC. Discussing the concept on MSNBC today, Brooks recalled how he “sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time”:

BROOKS: You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.

HARWOOD: What?

BROOKS: I can only imagine what happens to you guys.

O’DONNELL: Sorry, who was that?

BROOKS: I’m not telling you, I’m not telling you.

Brooks said that he has “spoken to a lot of young women who are Senate staffers and they’ll have these middle age guys who are sort of in the middle of a mid-life crisis. Emotionally needy, they don’t know how to do it and sort of like these St. Bernards drooling everywhere.”

When O’Donnell asked if he had “a couple drinks at lunch,” Brooks said that he was just “trying not to be too dignified and stuffy.”

[DrDan]

1. that is just hilarious

[babylonsister]

3. What's really hysterical is that he didn't remove the hand!

:shrug:

[Bolo Boffin]

10. Yeah, it gives "access" a whole new meaning. n/t

[mitchtv]

2. wishful thinking

what a bowser

[DebbieCDC]

4. Was Brooks loaded when he did this interview?

[Frustratedlady]

5. So, why did he allow him to remain in that position?

Remove his hand. Sheesh!

[lamp_shade]

6. And he allowed it for the whole dinner? What?

[babylonsister]

8. Weird, isn't it. Things that make you go hmmmm. nt

[Blue For You]

7. TMI /EOM

[Garbo 2004]

9. Brooks let himself be groped by a Senator throughout a dinner party?

And Brooks finds only the Senator's behavior to be questionable? Says something about Brooks, doesn't it? And his relationship to power?

[DURHAM D]

12. Helps illuminate the phrase "media whore" doesn't it? nt

[bulloney]

15. The fact that Brooks didn't tell the senator to knock it off tells me that he,

like so many other media gerbils, really are whores for the Washington power elite.

The way he brought it up by innuendo and not calling out the culprit is just as bad.

[stlsaxman]

11. David "Grope my inner thigh during dinner" Brooks...

"trying not to think about female Saint Bernards licking their aides..."

:wow:- "WOW!!!"

[camera obscura]

13. Come on, give the guy a nickname. Say, um, Gritsy Lamb.

No one will ever guess who he is.

[PSzymeczek]

16. Awww, come on.

All I want is a little hint.:rofl:

[burning rain]

17. Had to have been Jesse Helms.

Who else?

[pacalo]

14. A Republican senator had his hand on a NYT writer's INNER THIGH

& O'Donnell acted as though this was merely business as usual. She was given a bombshell & disregarded it by focusing on Brooks' unusual frankness. I do believe Brooks may have had a cocktail at lunch that may have eased his guardedness, but it shouldn't have been made the point.

[griloco]

18. i await the photos of every dinner brooks has attended

and the denials from the parties seated aside him

[Red Knight]

19. Larry "Wide Stance" Craig

That's who my money is on.

[tomm2thumbs]

20. The Senator was simply easing his carpal tunnel

The ride home after the dinner party - are those Brooks' legs?



bwahhahahah

[donheld]

21. Why would Mr Brooks allow any man have his hand on his thigh

Not for a minute but "all through dinner?"

Things that make you go hmmm