What do people think of David Brooks of the NYTimes?

[applegrove]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I don't know what "people" think of him, but

I think he's a clueless elitist twit.

[yourout]

9. Amen.....could not have said it better.

[EFerrari]

14. Who has never been right about anything. n/t

[GomezLives]

2. I just saw him at the salad bar at Applebees

[madinmaryland]

11. Funny, but I saw him at the Olive Garden. He was say something to a woman

breast feeding her baby.

:shrug:

[GomezLives]

13. Brooks is like the ref in hockey that only sees the retaliation

[blogslut]

3. not much

[elleng]

4. Smart enough to know when repugs are wrong,

but stuck in a pov. Sometimes worth the time to read, but not reliably so.

[tekisui]

10. I agreee. He knows when to jump ship but, all to often

he tows an antithetical line. I think he is a smart guy, but welded to an ideology that consistently disappointments him. His brain would be relieved and thankful to be on our side.

[coalition_unwilling]

5. Stooge. Imperial apologist. Doofus. - n/t

[DCKit]

6. One of the smartest Republics out there, but that's not saying much.

He still relies too heavily on talking-points, and nearly everyone he comes up against is able to disprove his "facts". IMO, they (all) generally go far easier on him than they should.

[blondeatlast]

7. Until this moment, I hadn't with no effort whatsoever.

This is 3 minutes of my life I won't get back, but I'll get along.

[abq e streeter]

8. Unusual for a repub in that he's only almost always full of shit as opposed to always

[Smarmie Doofus]

12. Don't really care if he's there but it bugs me that OP-ED is....

... now unbalanced. There's Brooks and Doubthat (sp) and Kristoff but who's going to replace Bob Herbert?

Without an articulate progressive ( Krugman's great but who really *wants* to read about economics?) the page is skewed right.

The op-ed is the only reason I kept getting the damn thing. The news pages are generic pro-government swill.