David Brooks Wins Wanker Of The Week On This Week
By Logan Murphy Saturday Sep 22, 2007 11:31am 
On ABC's This Week, David Brooks appeared in the round table discussion and to absolutely no one's surprise, he wanked his way through the entire segment. Despite being consistently wrong in his cheerleading of the war, consistently clueless in his support of neo-con ideologies that are negatively affecting everything they touch (the economy, our reputation on the world stage, everything but CEO's bottom lines), David feels that anyone who doesn't see things his way can't be serious.
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Brooks, in his infinite wisdom, informs the panel that the last two weeks have been great for Rudy Giuliani and when confronted with his major flip-flop on gun control, David contends Rudy can't be hurt by flip-flopping because flip-flopping is only a problem for candidates who are weak -- and as any serious person knows, Rudy is very, very strong. Fellow panelist Cokie Roberts makes some great points about President Bush's promised veto of the pending SCHIP legislation and how it's going to drive women away from the Republican Party, which doesn't sit well with the wise and very serious Brooks.
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When is he not a wanker?
He's a member of the PWS: the Perpetual Wanker Society.
This guy's a nut and painful to watch.
Brooks is consistently a loser... He can't believe that others have a different opinion than he (which most usually do) so he gets to continue to spout his nonsense.
I'm amazed that Keller at the NYT keeps this dimwit around but I guess that you gotta have the token wingnut.
Wanker of the Week?
Com'on - that was a "gimme" ~
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Bobo is bonkers. When has he been right about anything? I read his screeds for amusement more than anything else. He reminds me of the kid in school with absolutely no socialization skills--he acts so dopey and ill at ease, Brooks doesn't seem comfortable with himself, so how are we expected to take him seriously?
Im glad hillary has decided to go the pro war route. She will definatly be the president in 2009 if she continues to be seen as someone serious about what we need to do.
Bit NOLA @ 1:
What a coincidence!! Bill "the bloody" Kristol is a member of that society too!
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Brooks is a doofus... SERIOUSLY.
And at the end Cokie actually showed that she can pay attention when she said something to the effect that as long as the war is going on, the answer to "we cannot afford to do X" is "then bring home the troops"
You guys at crooksandliars need to stick to seriously loony wingnuts - moderates and people just left of center have respect for David Brooks.
"Rudy is very, very strong", spouts Brooks!
Well Brooks how strong was Rudy when he "Cut and Ran" from a woman named Hillary, in the New York Senate race in 2000. When Hillary clinton entered the Senate race in New York in late '99 or early 2000, Rudy couldn't drop out fast enough! He "Cut and Ran' as soon as Sen. Clinton announced she was running for the U S Senate in New York!
im ashamed this asshat lives near my home town in bethesda. i think there should be term limits on Op columnists. it is only way to get the stale fart huffers like brooks out.
Oh, and $80,000 really isn't a lot of money in many areas of this country, especially New York.
What is so terrible about designating health care a right in the richest nation on earth?
no one should have respect for brooks. When has he been right? tell me that, and then tell why anyone would respect him? He come across as non threatening wimp, thats is only reason any one would call him "moderate".
But his tenacity at sticking to his guns, even when wrong, again and again, is more the thinking of an extremist ideologue than a rational moderate.
That people are fooled by him speaks of how little people pay attention
You know what's wrong with America today? People like Brooks have been given a sense of legitimacy. There was a time when the news programs, the comedy shows, the newspapers... all of them, expected the audience to keep up with them. They expected a high level of intellegence. If not don't watch it. Don't read it. Don't be part of the conversation. Now we have people like Kristol and Brooks reaching into the pits and wiggling around an argument. What they say ef-ing makes no sense. It never does. And they don't care. Because their job is to sell a product that will make the manufacureres a lot of money. How much has the war made Ledeen and Cheney? How much have people made on oil? How about new corps like Blackwater?
And where did the intellegent people go that demanded reality and legitimate arguments? A lot of them went to the internet.
Brooks (allegedly) went to a Red Lobster somewhere in Pennsylvania and got a cheap meal so leave him alone.
He gives Shields indigestion.
I read David Brooks' column this morning in the Sunday edition of the Tennessean concerning his admiration of Newt Gingrich and I must strongly disagree with you, Logan Murphy. Mr. Brooks is NOT a wanker. Mr. Brooks is a total fucking asshole. Thank you. Now I have to go throw up.
What credentials must one demonstrate to appear on these shows? Cuz, I mean, I have a mouth, and a gift for gab. I could do what these cretins do. I think it'd be a great idea just to dispense with these "analysis" shows altogether.
Seriously, it doesn't strike me as all that different from this.
timmy_d11 @ 10:
Well, you've convinced me. In fact, if the Republican presidential nominee turns out to be someone who commands the respect of moderates, I don't think we should criticize him either.
Brooks, in his infinite wisdom, informs the panel that the last two weeks have been great for Rudy Giuliani and when confronted with his major flip-flop on gun control, David contends Rudy can’t be hurt by flip-flopping because flip-flopping is only a problem for
candidatesDemocrats who are weak — and as any serious person knows, Rudy is very, verystrongRepublican.This is what Brooks meant to say I'm sure. Douchebag.
timmy_d11 @ 10:
The people who respect Brooks are the ones who respect McCain or Mitt Romney, which is to say, they are the people who love the choirboy manner but don't really listen to the words they say. Brooks is a faux moderate. A fake reasonable thinker. He's a sophist and a fraud. Like McCain and like Romney, he's from the Disney animatronic wing of the Republican party, and far more dangerous to democracy than seriously loony wingnuts.
Meh. We know everything we need to know about the Brooks MO, legislate for human needs only if it interrupts the gap between your fork and the cold cuts on the buffet tray.
I don't bother watching videos of their mouths moving.
Fuck him. Fuck them all.
timmy_d11 @ 10:
That is pathetic.
Anyone who respects this prevaricating clown is as mentally handicapped as he is.
I knew Brooks was a wanker the minute he jumped on Anne Coulter's bandwagon. The one time I read his column, he was insisting that the left defined the phrase neo-con as "con" = conservative and "neo" = jewish, implying that the left was being antisemitic in it's reactions to the BS of Wolfowitz, Feith and Pearle. WTF??? What kind of moronic clown would actually buy into this nonsense????? Oh right, they're called partisan right-wing nutjobs!
Why doesn't someone call these people what they really are: Neo-Bigots!
I cant watch these loons, it is so pathetic so many of these people have a national stage. The mainstream media is genuinely too shallow and disgusting to even generate outrage anymore, its not like a few bad apples either, the entire bucket is crawling with flies and worms.
ray @ 6:
Givin' up on Fred Thompson/Rudy Guiliani already?
Why don't the other pundits laugh in his face when he utters something so absurd? Why don't they mock and ridicule him? Why continue to support such absolute stupidity? In general, the reaction I see from the Moveon.org (manufactured) controversy, is that we aren't even allowed to tell the liars that they are liars, because this will somehow horrify "decent people." And this has got to end. When David Brooks decides to sound like the jack-ass he is, the others should tell him that. When Petraeus lies to us, which should be able to tell him that! (I know we are, but I am referring to the country in general!) It's time to stop playing by their rules!
timmy_d11 @ 10:
Well "Timmy" (timmeh!) maybe it is because we can read and think, which, last I checked, was outlawed in this country eons ago.
This guy Brooks gets paid for his thoughts and insight? How come? He's probably wanking at home right now as we speak.
Thank the creator for blogs -- the pundit class needs to go.
Karen @ 19:
I keep asking myself, but can't get a satisfactory answer: Why do they have this moron on PBS's Jim Lehrer News Hour?
Why does Rich Lowry fill in for him - he is just as big of a moron on PBS, and even a bigger moron when he fills in for Hannity
The best one was..."Nobody cares about flip-flopping unless they think you're weak."
Beauuutiful.
I have always hated that asshole. What a slimy, arrogant, pompous, stupid prick.
And why does Stephanopoulos have all those right-wing assholes on his show? Brooks, Kookie Roberts, George "I An Asshole" Will, ...
To the wanker family, add Newt Gingrich, who today said:
"WALLACE: You say — and you talked about change — that the Republican Party needs to make a clean break from George W. Bush.
What does that mean? And how can Republicans say that they're the agent of change when it's been a Republican president and a Republican Congress in power for most of the last six years?
GINGRICH: Well, I think that's part of the challenge, is to make the case authentically, but it's not about President Bush as an individual person.
The current system doesn't work. A couple of quick examples: We ought to have English as the official language of government. We ought to have intensive education in English for everybody who comes here.
We ought to guarantee that you have the right to say one nation under God as part of the pledge of allegiance. There are a whole series of steps people want."
Is that going to be his platform if and when he makes up his mind to run or not?
This man is a serious clown. Seriously.
Well, wanking is good. Sadly, as I wrote to him in an email to which he amazingly did not respond, I diagnosed a serious case of BTS.
Oh, come on, even lay people know what THAT is. Brown Tongue Syndrome?
From having it SO far up Dumbya's ass?
timmy_d11 @ 10:
No difference here. If people you think are "moderates and people just left of center" seem to "have respect for David Brooks" then they are not "moderates and people just left of center."
It's not what you call yourself. It's how you think.
Permission to fly, domestically?
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ronhohn @ 31:
Perhaps it's because most people recognize this guy as a respectable conservative, but not a neoconservative?
He doesn't seem too outrageous - can anyone point me in the direction of him saying things like Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin or Newt Gingrich says?
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d-man@27:
The problem is that there are too many asskissers with plenty of money and plenty of political connections that you might need in the future. These people don't want to jeopardize their future. Do they? That's why nobody have the guts to call them what they are. Here is were KO makes the difference!
If Conservative stay loyal to Bush on his veto of Health care to poor children on the basis it costs to much. What is a human life worth in Iraq.
What is the conservative price tag on a U.S. Soldier?
The price of an American poor child?
The price of corporate welfare? And so on?
Conservative born into wealth and opportunity always preach, " pull yourself up by your boot straps ".
They assume everyone is born with boot straps ! Not everyone has boot straps and boot straps cost money the poor do not have.
Bush basically wants the Katrina victims to pull themselves up by their boot straps. Big Oil companies require government subsidies during their windfall profiting.
-So why doesn't Bush withdraw from Iraq after toppling Saddam and, " Tell the Iraqi's to Pull Themselves Up And Togethr By Their Own Boot Straps "??
He does it to Americans................................But not Iraqi's
He doesn't tell Israel to suck it up and pull up their boot straps when it comes to alligning American military force to defend them?
By definition: insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, all the while expecting different results. Poor Brooks is certifiable, but while he maintains a semblance of 'normal' functioning we're stuck with him. The Corporate Megalomaniacs who own the majority of our media obviously regard him and his ilk as assets--read profitable. Until and unless that changes...
Meanwhile, I appreciate one of the comments above
And where did the intellegent people go that demanded reality and legitimate arguments? A lot of them went to the internet.
I now glean the majority of my 'news' from the internet, and certainly all of my erudite and strong activist arguments.
garcia @ 42:
Agreed, and I do like KO, and we need him to KO more of these wankers. I just watched that sickening discussion. Brooks wasn't the only wanker defining what/who is serious and what/who isn't. It is so tiresome.
I haven't watched the clip yet, but let me guess, as Brooks was droning on and making shit up, Stephanopolis just sat there and nodded without any sort of challenge or follow-up?
Stephanopolis drives me as nuts as Brooks does, he's such a soft weak-kneed pundit these days it's almost depressing.
David Brooks those his thrice married cross dressing, lisp voiced daddy. Props to Larry Johnson for taking pictures of bobo's duct taped mailbox
I wonder how will Brooks spin reality when he realizes that Giuliani is so weak, no one is voting for him.
One big circle jerk.
Yep, one big circle jerk of silver spoon beltway babies. Its Sunday and we're treated by the MSM to yet another steaming pile out of the punditry class.
The pundit class is done. Someone explain to me why anyone is supposed to listen to anything that comes out of these people's mouths.
I love the gem out of "Cokie": "The way you calculate a person's judgment is you look at their family."
Oh gawd, the punditry class at its finest, saying shit that sort of makes sense until you actually think about it - "look at their family?" Cokie? oh yes, this is the same kind of lazy thinking that got us our current bonehead president "vote for the guy you'd feel comfy having a beer with". wtg Cokie!
Ah Cokie, epitome of the worthless bourgeois DC pundit class - from Stoneridge (private 20k a year K-12), daughter of DC elites, to Wellessley, and now, fake credibility up the ass.
This Guy looks like Larry Craig.
Farnsworth @ 11:
right on, and similarly how can he be seen as a 'very, very strong' candidate when he cuts and runs to give speeches for money rather than be a member of the Iraq Study Group - where he could have gotten REAL terrorism and foreign policy bonafides. this lack of good judgment goes right to his character, and is why his personal life is completely fair game (as decisions he's made there go directly to his character). and also all is fair in politics anyway. if he wants to have the job of president, he doesn't get to decide what the public will know or wont know about him. the press will decide that and thusly the public - if he's fit to be president.
David contends Rudy can’t be hurt by flip-flopping because flip-flopping is only a problem for candidates who are weak — and as any serious person knows, Rudy is very, very strong.
Brooks may be a wanker, but he's right about this. The only people who care about "flip-flopping" are the GOP base and the reporters who like to repeat their screams of "flip-flopper". Thinking people tend to recognize flip-flopping as either pandering or honest reevaluation of the issues and treat it accordingly.
Romney is hurt by his flip-flopping because he's a good looking guy with a reputation for compromising with Democrats. Giulianni has a reputation for being a fascist. Any flip-flopping he does that makes him look more like a fascist will be okay with the GOP base because they want a fascist. Heck, "weak" isn't anywhere near the narrative for Giulianni, so even if something came out that made him look actually weak, it would probably get ignored or reported on page A18 because it doesn't fit the Giulianni narrative that the reporters want to report.
The fact that he and his ilk are so damned arrogant,and clueless beyond belief is what
annoys me to the point frenzy.It`s like watching a leaf blower with the volume turned all the way up.He reeks of "ego trip," flitting around reporting the news while spewing his crap and exuding vibes that declare"I`m important;I`m sooo important." Dicks are important.He is important.He`s a dick.
FRIST!
damn!
If Bobo wants to pimp Rudy as a strong muscular guy so he can seem just as strong and muscular as Mitt appears in his photo ops then fine, let him, but he's not gonna pull one over on anyone with the "weak vs. strong" meme as a qualification for prez.
Hey Bushco isn't weak when it comes to terra-ism, they're just fucking stupid as hell, but hey they're not WEAK, right bobo? They talk tough, dead or alive bitch! mission accomplished, 48 hrs, saddam, shock and awe, invade iran, double gitmo!, torture em!
Different sunday, but the same steaming pile out of the pundit class - these pundit neo-cons must have some lingering childhood traumas from middle school b/c nearly all of them are hung up on the 'don't appear Weak no matter what' gig.
Well, the way I see it, David Brooks should be the lifetime recipient of the "upper class twit of the year" award. It's a horrible and painful waste of the precious moments of one's life to read or listen to him.
Are they speaking English?
miss_kitty @ 38:
I've lost my fine motor skills at discerning (or caring) to give any of these guys a break, or the little spots where they're not insane. Still we have to stand on our heads feeling like shit to decode their latest lies, they're fucking evil clowns So long as they've got bruiser intentions like the spector of Blackwater busily buying up land in u.s. townships even tho they're facing being losers in '08:
My back is up, in total defense/offense mode. Call me blatantly ignorant. We've been primed beautifully to hate their guts.
#17 Jeanne: I don't know what you take away from the News Hour when Bobo is on with Mark Shields but for years Mark has destroyed Bobo with facts, humor, and irony. He also does the same with Lowrey.
Mark is very fast on his feet and if he opened up, he would bury Brooks. He was great on Capitol Gang--he left Novak stammering and stuttering!
The reason Brooks and Lowery and formerly Paul Gigot were on with Shields is for balance.
Mark Shields is one of the best when it comes to interpreting polls, analyzing races and handicapping races--plus he is a very kind, decent, good man. (it doesn't hurt that he is originally from Massachusetts either).
Wow...
How can ANY one vote for any of those people they mentioned??
Who else feels the world would be a better place if those yapping their bobble heads went on a trip to a different solar system?
rduke @ 62:
They are already there. In the Andromeda Beltway.
George Will must be a close second for WOW with his strawman bullshit argument against SCHIP. I half expected him to start talking about welfare mothers driving cadillacs as well.
Sorry, I meant David Broder in my last post. Funny how easy it is to get two dickheads confused with each other. Oh, well!
timmy_d11 @ 10:
Timmy,
People have "respect" for the fact that Brooks actually is a very articulate spokesperson for all the other wankers out there. He is "the wankmeister" (with a capital "W)" for the sorry souls who actually believe the crap he says. When people eventually understand exactly what he is saying, they say, "........what a wanker that guy is.....he sounds like he makes sense, but he is full of it."
sorry I didn't read eveyone, there are a few that cracked me up.
But, to the point. I thought George Swill was a bigger wanker, and that has nothing to do with the fact that I have the same hair challenge as Davie boy.
It can truly be said about Brooks that he is as dumb as he looks.
Yet another meeting of the Washington Talking Heads Club.
They treat every issue, no matter how serious, like it's another bit of gossip on the cocktail circuit. It's all just a big game for these people. They are disgusting. All ass-kissers trying to stay on the good side of whoever happens to be in power. They still fail to realize how little power they have and how much power is now in the hands of the internet bloggers.
I am probably about as liberal as they come, but I don't understand why everyone is so down on David Brooks. I check C&L every day, and I've seen him characterized consistently as ultra-rightwing. I don't have cable, so most of my news comes from the internet/newspapers. I do however, watch the Leher(sp?) Newshour on pbs daily. The highlight of the show (in my opinion) is Fridays when they have question and answer with Mark Sheilds(sp?) & David Brooks. I don't often agree with him, but he does make good points, and his logic seems to be more academic then dogmatic.
David Brooks: George W. Bush=Manchester Union-Leader: Richard M. Nixon
That David Brooks continuing to give his opinion on Iraq, is like the roofer who continues in business- even though every roof he has ever put on leaks like a sieve!
Brooks the Douche must be totally emotionally retarded to continue in this vein. I can't imagine what problem the fools have who continue to solicit his fantasies.
No he doesn't "wank" all the way through the interview. Fine, he is a wanker. But do you Americans know what that means? It means masturbating. Jacking off. Choking the chicken. Wacking off. He is not jacking off at all (at least unless we are unaware of some new and pioneering method of stimulation which Brooks is privy to) during this video. Learn what the word means.
TC @ 74:
He's a wanker.
TC @ 73:
wank·er (wngkr)
n. Chiefly British Vulgar Slang
1. A person who masturbates.
2. A detestable person.
WTF planet are these people from? They are all so far out to lunch I don't know why ANYONE even watches this show anymore.
By the way, any "lead" Hillary has is totally artificial. Which is all you need in today's phony store bought elections.
Phony drum up from MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
I smell a rat.
Look who is talking about "likeability"
Cookie roberts?
One of the LEAST LIKEABLE PEOPLE IN AMERICA.
Brooks is one of the phoney right wing fanatics who hides behind the NYT opinion pages--a war monger and excuse maker for bush and the neo=cons--a supporter of lieberman and an arrogant failure!!!
The Republicans want so bad for Clinton to be the Democratic nominee. The Coporatocracy believes that if any Democrat takes the White Houe in 2009, the one they can can exert the most control over is Hillary Clinton.
Edwards and Kucinich are policy threats to Corporate America.
I just watched a conversation between painted balloons filled with fart gas. They made funny noises, but the smell was awful. Did I miss anything?
TC @ 73:
Bloody hell! I dare say, you just might be the first person to witness C&L's disparaging an idiot right-winger (kindly forgive the redundancy), and only be enraged by a perceived misuse of British slang.
May I ask, if C&L had labeled someone the "jerk-off of the week," and then noted that he "jerked off through the entire interview," would you take that usage literally?
there are a select few who have earned hall of fame status in this category and should have the lifetime award bestowed upon them. they should never have to compete for wanker of the week status. they are lifetime members of the hall of fame. surely Brooks has earned that recognition.
Brooks considers himself such a policy wonk. Yet he deifies Bush, who could care less about policy and runs everything by 'gut' and ideological reasoning. Perhaps Bush is an 'action figure' to Brooks, or the brother Brooks never had.
TC @ 73:
Polishing the helmet, spanking the monkey, we know what it means. Afterall Peg Bundy's maiden name was Wanker, and of course one of my favorite songs by the Exploited was Bill is a Wanker.
Here's another of my faves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRfzJtdmq4
thankfully, we don't have to pay a "premium" for his opinion.
I wonder whoever did?
TC @ 73:
yes, he should be charged with "mental masterbation" in pub
lic and also with "indecent exposure" for showing his assininity in public. his verbal diarrhea is also nauseating.This tosser likes Clinton? Further evidence that Clinton is rubbish.
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