The Radical Totalitarian Progressive Movement is goring through its roughest times. Their agenda has been exposed and their beloved leader Barack Hussein Obama is a frustrated man. This is the time for Conservatism to press the Left and show them no mercy. However there is an element that rather appease the Progressives. This Brand of Conservatism is called Compassionate Conservatism. In reality this a form of Progressivism. They accommodate Leftist views for the sake of getting along. David Brooks is a clear example of this and instead of going after the Left, he attacks the Tea Parties.
Posts Tagged ‘David Brooks’
David Brooks: Profile of Compassionate (Progressive) Conservatism
by Phantom Ace ( 75 Comments › )Filed under Communism, Dhimmitude, Progressives, Republican Party at March 6th, 2010 - 9:30 am
New York Times & David Brooks: Intellectuals Я Us
by Mojambo ( 136 Comments › )Filed under Media at January 12th, 2010 - 10:00 am
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.
LGF Blames Obama Win On Conservative Bloggers?
by WrathofG-d ( 99 Comments › )Filed under Barack Obama, Election 2008, LGF, Politics at March 4th, 2009 - 12:54 pm
Never missing an opportunity to blame all the world’s ills on Conservatives he doesn’t agree with, or those he actually has a personal grudge against, Little Green Footballs Blogger Charles Johnson stretches reality to blame Conservative Bloggers for Obama’s win.
In an opinion piece by columnist David Brooks, Brooks writes to confess that he was hoodwinked by the Obama ‘Hope & Change’ campaign into believing that Obama was a centrist. Although Brook’s himself, in the first paragraph of the piece, states that he missed the truth about Obama because of his own personal moderate-conservatism, then Senator Obama’s stances on “investments in education, energy innovation, and health care reform that expands coverage while reducing costs”, and in the second paragraph acknowledges a change in the Obama Administration’s attitude since winning the election based on “its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once”, LGF’s Charles Johnson concludes that Brook’s hoodwinking was actually the result of Conservative Bloggers. (but only those who didn’t stick strictly to LGF’s message, of course)
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“One unfortunate factor that exacerbated the tendency to dismiss all critics of Barack Obama as kooks: the many right wing bloggers who did act like kooks, enthusiastically and relentlessly promoting stories like the birth certificate nonsense, the “Michelle Obama ‘whitey’ tape,” the “Obama is the love child of Malcolm X” rubbish, and countless other insane and/or stupid smears. The damage they did (and are still doing, in some cases) to the center-right blogosphere was enormous; when some of the loudest voices are screaming gibberish, they drown out everyone else and tar the whole group by association.”
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Wait, so it was “right wing bloggers who did act like kooks, enthusiastically and relentlessly promoting stories like…the “Michelle Obama ‘whitey’ tape”? Right wing bloggers?
Well that is confusing because on June 16, 2008 LGF itself lambasted the “Pro-Obama Media” for “sliming ‘Right-Wing’ Blogs” by attempting to “to divert the blame [for Bob Beckel’s “whitey tape” statement”] onto conservative bloggers. Also, on that same day, LGF proudly criticized Beckel for having “the nerve to blame the “whitey tape” smear on right wing bloggers”, adding that “Wow. A new apex of hypocrisy has now been achieved.” (see Update 1) That wasn’t all however. On June 17, 2008, LGF assured its readers that Bob Beckel was a “democratic operative” who was blaming “Right-wing ‘crackers’ for his own Michelle Obama smearmongering.”
I agree Mr. Johnson, maybe a new apex of hypocrisy has now been achieved.
