And the Buzzflash Media Putz of the Week is....

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David Brooks

For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.

Competing for our third weekly Media Putz of the week honors, David Brooks took home the trophy with his column on the "commutation" of Scooter Libby: "Ending the Farce."

As the expression goes, Brooks had our BuzzFlash readers impressed with his "putziness" from hello.

Shortly after Brooks compares the outing of a CIA operative and the destruction of her network and usefulness as a "farce in five acts" ending, according to Brooks, with justice being done in keeping Libby out of prison, the smarmy "in the tradition of William Buckley" New York Times columnist lets loose with this wing ding of a winger sentence: "The drama opened, as these dark comedies are wont to do, with a strutting little peacock who went by the unimaginative name of Joe Wilson."

What is Brooks' theme song: "It's all Happening at the Zoo"?

David Corn of the Nation, who first exposed the Plame outing in "The Nation" (quickly followed by a series of editorials in BuzzFlash about the significance of the infamous Bob Novak column), wrote an http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/07/a_memo_for_davi.php">excellent dissection of the inaccuracies and sappy language in Brooks' July 3 commentary.

Like Corn, we wavered between being appalled and laughing uproariously, after reading Brooks opining, "In short order, Wilson established himself as the charming P.T. Barnum of the National Security set, an inveterate huckster who could be counted on to wrap every actual fact in six layers of embellishment."

Read the full article here: http://mediaputz.com/07/07/putz0712.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. Well deserved. Saw him on a Sunday talking-head festival repeating the same tripe.

He wasn't able to keep a straight face for all of it, so I'll give him credit for having a sense of humor about his insanity.