David Brooks is living proof that once Bill Safire retired, any semblance of political balance in the op-ed section of The New York Times retired with him. David Brooks (like Peggy Noonan, David Gergen, Kathleen Parker and Christopher Buckley) is a pseudo conservative who will sell his own mother out in order to get an invite to all the right parties on the Upper West Side (where he lives), Georgetown, Cambridge or Bel Air. He is a prototypical progressive who thinks that we fools who actually have to work for a living ought to shut up and listen to our betters (like all those Ivy League MBA grads who ran Wall Street into the ground). There is nothing better that I would like to do then wipe that smirk off of his nerdy face.
Speaking of Christopher Buckley – someone wrote in 2008 that “he has the soft and flabby face of a well fed appeaser“.
by Stuart Schwartz
David Brooks is upset.
And when the New York Times columnist, this Obama-designated conservative intellectual, the National Public Radio/MS-NBC-anointed voice for America’s conservative masses, is upset, he does what comes naturally to those who regard themselves as born and educated to lead the rest of us.
He screams. A trendy, effeminate, New York Times scream. A spotlight-hugging, power-seeking, northeast corridor scream. The high-pitched kind that bounces off the glass-paneled bar at Le Cirque and shakes the Wedgewood water goblets. It’s not fair, whines Brooks — we “should have the power to implement programs to solve the country’s problems” by virtue of “intellect” and “expertise.”“We” are “big government, big business, big media, and the affluent professionals” who comprise the “educated class.” Obama and his Ivy League appointees, The New York Times and legacy media elites, the newly progressive Democratic Party — a regular Intellectuals Я Us.
Brooks rages at the “fringe” Americans who are so stupid as to deny the wonder of a nation run by its elite, “educated” betters. “Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year,” he laments, tears dripping onto his University of Chicago diploma.
Educated? Does that mean that Sarah Palin, with her University of Idaho degree and best-selling book, is a member of the “educated class”? Or the millions of Tea Party sympathizers who can count to twenty without using their toes? No, Brooks says, Sarah Palin is “a joke,” a “fatal cancer,” and the Tea Party movement is simply an ugly fourth for the Three Stooges: Moe, Larry, Curly…and Adolf.
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