David Brooks: A Republican Senator 'Had His Hand On My Inner Thigh' For A 'Whole' Dinner Party (VID)

[jefferson_dem]

Just realized this is a dupe. Sorry folks.

The original is here - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6037499&mesg_id=6037499

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David Brooks: A Republican Senator 'Had His Hand On My Inner Thigh' For A 'Whole' Dinner Party (VIDEO)

Think Progress flags David Brooks telling a fantastic anecdote that supports his recent New York Times column lamenting the loss of dignity in America. Apparently, Brooks was at a dinner party and had the misfortune to sit next to a Republican senator who "had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here."

Co-host John Harwood exclaims "what?" while Norah O'Donnell lets loose her trademark guffaw. Sadly, Brooks refuses to identify the touchy-feely senator.

WATCH (around the 5:00 mark):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/10/david-brooks-a-republican_n_229806.html

[Hello_Kitty]

1. *cough* Lindsey Graham *cough* eom

[Bankhead_ATL]

4. Well he do de-clair

[saltpoint]

2. How long was the dinner party, anyway? Brooks sat through the entire

event under those circumstances and didn't budge?

If he objected to the affront, he could have likely rearranged alternative seating.

[jefferson_dem]

5. This was such an odd thing for Brooks to say...

As if he didn't sense the "WTF" reaction it would get.

Sorry, David. If this indeed happened, it's WAY beyond a failure of "dignity".

[saltpoint]

7. Yep. It just isn't working as it spills off the page. And Brooks is supposed

to be a hot-shot NYTimes journalist.

This observer is befuddled.


:hi:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. Give us all a break,

for goodness' sake. This guy really sat through an entire dinner party while the guilty party ate one-handed?

Or did Brooks cut up his meat for him?

Yeah. Right. Something's definitely off with Mr. Brooks..........................

[saltpoint]

10. You can turn a cheap vaudeville act into a gleaming ballet in 2 sentences flat.

Handsomely done, madam.


:thumbsup: :hi:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. Hello, handsome -

you're in fine form tonight, as usual.

My pleasure to be able to entertain you, but you know that.................

:hi:

[saltpoint]

13. If you post a grocery list, I'll read it.

Happy mid-July.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

17. You're easy -

my favorite trait in a man.

And to you, too - the summer is going so quickly, isn't it? We've had three straight days of cool, crystalline, dry days - not even hitting 80. Not at all normal for DC in the summer.

But I'm loving it..................................

[saltpoint]

20. It's lucky to get those cooler temps and low humidity in that part of

the country this time of the year.

I hope your good fortune holds out as long as possible.

I had a pizza once from Mario's Pizza. It's in Bethesday, almost to the Beltway, in a little strip mall. For whatever reason, I thought about that pizza today. It was really tasty.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

23. There's a Mario's in Arlington, on Wilson Blvd,

a really old place, with workers who have been there for years. A bunch of real characters.

The current owner, whose parents started the place, was conceived in its parking lot. I heard that on local radio once, and I thought it just made the place even better.

Funny that you thought of it today...................

[saltpoint]

25. On a WashPOST blog I found this lament for the lost Mario's:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2009/04/most_livable_city_bethesda.html?wprss=rawfisher


"Does anyone remember Mario's Pizza shack on River Road?"

(It's almost all the way down the page & has some lively exchanges about the DC area.)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

26. Well, doesn't the concept of Bethesda

as a place drive some folks right around the corner? Those comments sounded far too much like something here at DU, didn't they?

I didn't know there was a Mario's in MD, and Bethesda, for me, is a place where my accountant is located. I used to drive there once a year, and got lost every time, dammit. Cell phones made that a whole lot easier.

There's such a difference between VA and MD, here in the DC area, and you're either one or the other. You cannot like both places - you just can't. I regard MD as a foreign country, but then, here in The People's Republic of Alexandria, life is very sweet.

Now you've got me craving pizza, you cad.................. :)

[saltpoint]

27. I am crying for Mario's, for its being among the lost businesses.

Agree with you on VA and MD. I tried pretty hard some years back to graft myself onto DC but fell well short.

I did meet Larry McMurtry in Georgetown town in a deli line, however.

So I'm not complaining.

'Have heard Alexandria is a wonderful place. Friends in Blacksburg slip up thataway from time to time and return with high praise.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

28. Trover Book Shop, on Capitol Hill,

which was my favorite place for years - an absolute institution, a place where you could find the most obscure, exotic publications - announced last week that they're closing.

I am losing hope, my friend.

Alexandria is, indeed, a lovely small town for a small city - about 80,000 people, but with that local feel.

And I agree with you about Danforth - as a Senator, he was a dick, but he did seem to find god, in all sorts of ways, after he left the Senate. As for him as Veep, I suspect that will join the ever-growing list of "Imagine ifs" that will define for all of who are sentient the first eight years of the twenty-first century, alas.

When I saw today that Obama has extended the SS protection for Cheney, I went ballistic, but then I read that one of my best friends from years ago has been nominated to be Ambassador to The Netherlands, and I am so sorely tempted to drop her a note and ask her if she's now glad that she gave up her membership in the Young Republicans all those years ago, when I implored her to quit. But, no, she had to go and get herself knocked up by a YR who changed his home phone number when she told him she was pregnant and wouldn't take her calls at work. A real prince.

This was in the time before Roe v. Wade. We got through it, but memories of a motel in the western suburbs of Chicago are not pleasant.

Now, she's a Democrat, married to one of Obama's big money supporters from the beginning, and she's a real lady. Bet she forgot the Federal judge she banged to get a clerkship.

Ain't life a funny thing, my friend?

Oh, the things I could do................ but won't............

[saltpoint]

31. The western burbs of Chicago can be a bleak landscape in wintertime.

Cold nights thereabouts.

A time before Roe. There's a paradigm shift right there. And there are too damn many 5-to-4 votes on the SCOTUS these days for me to believe that Roe is secure. I want the next 2 Supreme retirees to be far-Rightwingers, and sooner would be a lot better than later.

I am sorry a book shop has closed and sorrier still that the one that closed is gone, having been such a good pal to you for so long. It deserved survival, no doubt, and you deserve it as a sanctuary. The America of the small bookshop owner was the better America than the America of the big-box book stores.

[Bankhead_ATL]

3. Ummm oooh boy

:popcorn:

[mitchum]

6. Mark Hatfield or Gomer Graham or Mitch McConnell...

depending upon when it happened

[jefferson_dem]

9. Ewww... My money is on Mitch.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

11. Mark Hatfield?

That's a new one on me. Never heard that one before.

Oh, well............................

[mitchum]

14. Hatfield has had a longtime not quite closed closet door

[Tangerine LaBamba]

18. That's a whole new one on me -

in all the years here in DC, I never heard that one..

Eh, live and learn ..............

[saltpoint]

15. Wasn't Hatfield a Unitarian minister? Something like that...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

16. I know he did good stuff when he was in Washington,

but never heard a thing about his being in the closet.

Minister? Maybe a deacon in his church - some Protestant denomination - but I'm not even sure about that. Guy had an impeccable reputation.................

[saltpoint]

19. Yes. I liked him a lot. Google has him as a Unitarian but not as

a minister. Who knows what I was thinking?

He always struck me as a genuine and decent soul.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. You're thinking of

the guy from Missouri who left the Senate to become a minister - John Danforth.

He and Hatfield vaguely resemble each other - that Cute WASP Guy thing that never appealed to me.

Right?

[saltpoint]

22. I knew Danforth was a minister. And while I was never crazy about him

politically, in more recent times he has done a nice job in pissing off the fundie nutbags.

So I gotta begrudgingly give him props for that.

'Read where he was on the shortest of short-list names for Dubya's veep, until a certain Dick Cheney stepped in to do the selectionizin'.

[gkhouston]

24. Why didn't Brooks just say...

"I know you wish you had a bigger dick but that doesn't mean you get to borrow mine!" :shrug:

[Divine Discontent]

29. ha.. he coulda whispered it to him and laughed it off & moved on, I agree, but the letting it go on

'the whole party' or whatever he said, is odd. I pulled a man's hand out of my pants politely when I went to my first Gay bar before he got too personal (lol) and just said, thanks but not interested. I can't imagine letting someone I didn't have agreeable feelings for put their hand on my upper thigh - inner at that! - for more than 2 seconds and then saying no thanks and pulling it off!

I still wish he woulda said who he was clearly shocked by that he couldn't move! LOL

[Blues Heron]

30. This story has legs for sure!

methinks the brooksmeister doth protest too much!!

perhaps his brook ranneth over??

[Ernesto]

32. kick