BROOKS: Yes, Ted Cruz is making headway. You begin to see little signs of liftoff. Trump’s sort of ceilinged out [sic], Carson’s collapsing, and Cruz is somehow beginning to get some momentum in Iowa and elsewhere And so people are either mimicking him, which Rubio is doing a little by adopting some of the dark and satanic tones that Cruz has, and so . . . It is an ugly world in Ted Cruz’s world.
Cruz needs to work on his pants crease.
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David Brooks embraces the caricature of himself as cocktail party-loving non-conservative.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/11/2016 @ 8:27 pmOh, David Corn and David Brooks. What a balanced PBS panel.
Dejectedhead (ba8561) — 1/11/2016 @ 8:41 pmyes, ignore the president, who lived by a book dedicated to lucifer, I think the word he was scrounging around for was manichean,
narciso (732bc0) — 1/11/2016 @ 8:44 pmWho is David Brooks?
seeRpea (21eebc) — 1/11/2016 @ 8:46 pmTotally disgusting
MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84) — 1/11/2016 @ 8:49 pmWhat narciso said
Seems like the pot calling the door handles black.
Oh, by the way:
Ibidem (f7be92) — 1/11/2016 @ 8:56 pmrumor has it Teh One is looking for a new job running the U.N. (Netanyahu and the Arab states aren’t pleased with the idea.)
Old news re Obama’s next goal.
MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84) — 1/11/2016 @ 9:03 pmSearch PP archives,
It is as foreseen.
Brooks –
mg (31009b) — 1/11/2016 @ 9:09 pmpathetic, petulant prick.
A devilish prospect is Cruz
David in Cal (2b55d5) — 1/11/2016 @ 9:25 pmA fiend, that Brooks never would Chuz.
A demon worth hatin’
A child of Satan!
He’s almost as bad as the Juz.
It is an ugly world in Ted Cruz’s world.
It is an ugly world, and Cruz would like to do something about it.
MD in Philly (not in Philly at the moment) (deca84) — 1/11/2016 @ 9:27 pmmaybe there is a method to his madness,
https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2016/1/11/donald-trump-as-a-mirror-for-the-republican-soul/?singlepage=true
the huntress was regarded by brooksie, as a ‘cancer on the party’ when in truth she was a sign of strength,
narciso (732bc0) — 1/11/2016 @ 9:30 pmbrooks and his republican party could fit in a pup tent.
mg (31009b) — 1/11/2016 @ 9:36 pmI guess it depends on which party you want to go to..
MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84) — 1/11/2016 @ 9:38 pmI don’t want to go to the same one that Brooks is,
No matter how neatly pressed the pants đź‘– are.
He voted for Obama. Twice. Campaigned for Obama for his entire career in the pages of the New York Times.
Because he liked the crease in the mom jeans.
FUBROOKS. In his wiki, Brooks treated his wife like a laundry chute. Forcing her to change her name, change her religion, change her hair color, hopping from one seedy DC flop house to the next with the woman in tow. Sounds sort of closet queer.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/11/2016 @ 10:00 pmAnd he’ll vote for Clinton while still calling himself a Republican. This, folks, is the ACTUAL definition of RINO: does not vote for Republicans, ever.
It is part of the arrogance of modern America that we all expect “our” party’s candidates to believe exactly as we do.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/11/2016 @ 10:09 pmBrooks is a handy guy. Notice that as he was describing his reaction to Cruz’s speeches he was using his hands to illustrate how Godzilla crushed Tokyo, clump, clump, clump, to make clear that Cruz wants to crush everything. At the end of the segment he had both hands at chest level with his fingers twitching as though he was attempting to adjust some dials, or something, to emphasize how bothered he was by Cruz. This play acting was about it. Not a single quote or example to support his report. His colleague did mention the Cruz’s father, the preacher, used the word “satanic”, so I suppose that will have to do for substance. All things considered, this was definitely worth 2 minutes of PBS air time. Probably the highlight of the broadcast.
BobStewartatHome (a52abe) — 1/11/2016 @ 10:34 pmMakes me want to puke knowing my hard earned tax dollars goes to p b s.
mg (31009b) — 1/12/2016 @ 1:48 amWhy does this creep remind me of jonathon gruber?
mg (31009b) — 1/12/2016 @ 1:59 amdavid brooks’ whirl is one where a p.o.s. harvardtrash president’s legacy is that the sleazy fascist failmerican government can now tax the cowardly hapless failmerican people for the non-purchase of a good or service
that’s some butt-ugly ugly right there
happyfeet (831175) — 1/12/2016 @ 5:14 amIf someone needed a quisling, Mr. Brooks would be the “go to ” person.
mike191 (4c004d) — 1/12/2016 @ 6:22 amBrooks is almost north worth the candle, Larimer was a bit of a surprise, because he had worked for Rumsfeld.
narciso (732bc0) — 1/12/2016 @ 6:36 amDavid Brook is satanic.
Rodney King's Spirit (3adc86) — 1/12/2016 @ 6:49 amDavid Brooks’s mind has moved to the suburbs.
Colonel Haiku (b5bc8f) — 1/12/2016 @ 7:06 amI have on occasion read things by a David Brooks that I have thought were pretty good,
MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84) — 1/12/2016 @ 7:16 amSo much so that I find it hard to believe it is the same person,
But I think it is.
re #24: make sure you don’t make the same mistake that i often do of confusing David Brooks with David Frum.
seeRpea (21eebc) — 1/12/2016 @ 7:50 amI have on occasion read things by a David Brooks that I have thought were pretty good,
So much so that I find it hard to believe it is the same person,
But I think it is.
MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84) — 1/12/2016 @ 7:16 am
You’re probably confusing him with Albert Brooks, MD.
Colonel Haiku (b5bc8f) — 1/12/2016 @ 8:03 amGreetings:
Unfortunately, I ended up seeing the performance last Friday evening. As opposed to the somewhat left of center Brooks and well left of center and Obamaphilic Mark Shields, a guy from far, far left “Mother Jones” (last name Corn) was utilized to limit the range of thought. Gagsterous in the extreme but the three seemed to reach Progressive Nirvana. They reminded me of a dog a woman friend of mine had that used to bliss out by rubbing her butt on a rough piece of concrete.
And isn’t it about time that someone mentioned to Judy Woodward that she’s got arms too ugly to inflict on a sighted audience. Cover them damn things up.
11B40 (69b9c8) — 1/12/2016 @ 8:44 amFoster Brooks
mg (31009b) — 1/12/2016 @ 8:50 amgod judy cover up them ugly arms you stupid taco you’re making everybody sick
happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/12/2016 @ 8:54 amCruz is satanic! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to murder babies, enslave people with Socialism, steal money from the successful, abandon Americans to be murdered by savages…
CrustyB (69f730) — 1/12/2016 @ 8:56 amWhatever is going on here, it cannot end well.
scrubone (c3104f) — 1/12/2016 @ 11:38 amOf course, to David Brooks “satanic” is just a measure of how well-pressed your pants are.
malclave (4ddf38) — 1/12/2016 @ 12:00 pmMr. Brooks is a talentless moby and is merely revealing his unbearable vacuity owing to that warm, squishy between his cheeks.
DNF (755a85) — 1/12/2016 @ 12:36 pmJudy Woodruff did cover her arms up.
Am I missing something?
papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/12/2016 @ 1:28 pmrafael cruz is a satanic canadian and should be running for canadian prime minister. Oh! canada.
nate (9b2c25) — 1/12/2016 @ 2:54 pmDavid Brooks did not say that Ted Cruz is satanic. He said his speeches were marked by “pagan brutalism.” He said there wasn’t a hint of compassion, gentleism and mercy. He is a stranger to humility, mercy and grace. He said he agreed with some things Ted Cruz said, but the lack of anything positive, like reform conservatism, aid for the working class, or anything even that would be a “humane gesture toward cooperation” was striking.
Ted Cruz speaks apocalyptically – he only wants to destroy things, and he also bends his position. Like (other) inauthentic speakers, everything is described as a maximum threat. That is, that this is a tell that he is inauthentic.
And he will further marginalize evangelicals. The best conservatism, according to Brooks, balances the free market with a Judeo-Christians spirit of charity, compassion and solidarity. What he (and Trump) does, says Brooks, sounds more like blood and soil European conmservatism.
David Brooks starts off about how Cruz argued before the United States Supreme Court to keep someone in prison contrary to Texas law. A habitual offender law had been misapplied to give someone a 16-year swentence rather than a 2-year sentence. Cruz argued there was no way to correct that.
Sammy Finkelman (643dcd) — 1/12/2016 @ 2:57 pmGreetings, papertiger: (@ #34 – 1/12/2016 @ 1:28 pm)
Whoops. It looks like my resultant Post Traumatic Sight Disorder (PTSD) has struck again. Well, that and I rarely look at the videos I comment on. And maybe I was just desperate to hear from ‘happyfeet’ again.
But please remember, forewarned is forearmed.
11B40 (69b9c8) — 1/12/2016 @ 4:19 pmWho is David Brooks you ask?
He’s the dude at the Times with the vagina.
That goes on TV. I’m are there are others.
Donald (93b396) — 1/12/2016 @ 6:27 pmSure there are others. Eh.
Donald (93b396) — 1/12/2016 @ 6:28 pmPerhaps if Cruz put a sharp crease in his trousers…
arik (02de93) — 1/13/2016 @ 3:59 pmYet another reason to vote for Cruz…
jkstewart2 (dc2a9e) — 1/14/2016 @ 1:00 pm