A Whole Lot of Lone Nuts
Right-wing pundits have come out vociferously against the idea that they, their colleagues and the political movement they identify with have anything to answer for in the wake of the Tucson massacre....
View ArticleEdward Said on the 'Clash of Civilizations'
It was great to see this letter in the New York Times from Edward Said's widow (3/11/11): To the Editor: I smiled when I read "Huntington's Clash Revisited," by David Brooks (column, March 4). Eighteen...
View ArticleTea Party: Anti-Corporate Corruption Fighters?
Some in the press still seem to have trouble defining whatever it is that motivates the Tea Party movement. I noticed this in an L.A. Times piece last week (6/5/11): Americans possess a long-standing...
View ArticleDavid Brooks Gets Occupy Wall Street and Al-Qaeda in Same Sentence
New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a tedious column today (10/11/11) about how the real radicals are the centrists, not the Wall Street occupiers. (Read Dean Baker to see what Brooks is...
View Article'Bard of the 1 Percent' Sings the Same Tune
New York Times columnist David Brooks, who's been called the "bard of the 1 percent" for his writings in defense of the economic elite, is at it again–telling people not to worry about the...
View ArticleThe Way to Voters' Hearts Is Proposing What They Don't Want
You often see pundits making suggestions to political candidates like David Brooks makes in his New York Times column today (1/10/12): If Romney is to thrive, he really needs to go on an integrity...
View ArticlePolitico Makes You Glad Election Is Almost Over
The gossipy, horse race-obsessed outlet Politico ran a story on October 29 about the credibility of polling expert Nate Silver, whose 538 blog at the New York Times is a must-read for people interested...
View ArticleJack Lew, One More Anti-Business Obama Appointee
Republicans and various right-wing commentators have had a thing for talking about the supposedly "anti-business" tilt of the Obama administration. It's never made much sense--and it doesn't make any...
View ArticleSometimes David Brooks Gets So Mad He Can't Write Straight
When David Brooks writes that Obama "declines to come up with a proposal" other than raising taxes on the rich, and in reality he has proposed a plan, that merits a correction, right? Maybe. But when...
View ArticleCutting Social Security on PBS–From Left to Right
On the PBS NewsHour (4/12/13), the left/right debating duo of Mark Shields and David Brooks took up the issue of Social Security and "chained CPI"--and found that they didn't have a lot to debate on...
View ArticlePress Latched On to Snowden's 'Dropout' Status
Edward Snowden has been characterized as many things in recent weeks, but journalists' discounting him as a "high-school dropout" speaks volumes about media portrayals of education.
View ArticleDavid Brooks Applies His Mental Equipment to the Egypt Coup
"Islamists…lack the mental equipment to govern," New York Times columnist David Brooks writes today (7/5/13). "Incompetence is built into the intellectual DNA of radical Islam." Now, Brooks has been...
View ArticleObamacare as a 'Big Government' Failure
Pundits' discussions of the Affordable Care Act rollout assumes that the law represents some kind of "activist government" intervention to disrupt the normally smooth workings of the private sector....
View ArticlePundits Bemoan Failure to Cut Social Security
Media comments after the Obama administration backed off attempts to cut Social Security benefits exhibited a curious notion about where the "middle" is and what "majority support" means.
View ArticleObama's 'Manhood Problem'–and Media's Humanity Problem
David Brooks says the Middle East thinks Obama has a "manhood" problem.
View ArticleFAIR TV: NYT's Russia Walkback, Obama's 'Manhood,' Innocent Drones
The New York Times has a big exclusive on Russia--and quietly walked it back a few days later. David Brooks offers his thoughts on the Mideast and Obama's "manhood," CNN finds a guest who says innocent...
View ArticleHighly Placed Media Racists
Nicholas Wade was a leading New York Times science writer for three decades. He left the paper weeks after the May publication of his book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, a...
View ArticleReluctant Warrior Bombs Yet Another Country
Can a president who has launched military strikes on seven countries really be called a 'reluctant warrior?'
View ArticleCivilization-Threatening Crises? Nope, Can't Think of Any
David Brooks thinks you're just dwelling on the negative in the news--and he's written a New York Times column, headlined "Snap Out of It," to set you straight.
View ArticleNo, Tar Sands Oil Isn't Inevitable
Pundits say opposing Keystone is foolish because they're going to get that oil out of the ground no matter what. But is that true?
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