Cross posted on Daily Kos
Thu Dec 01, 2005 at 12:27:10 PM PDT
Yup.
I’m a cynic. Be happy this mindless windbag is now on pay for view status.
I’ll give you a taste of his idiot blathering:
“Americans are increasingly cynical about politics and their parties. Only 24% of Americans say the Republicans represent their priorities, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, and only 26 percent say the Democrats do.”
One other morsel:
“Finally a brackish tide of pessimisim has decended upon the country.”
Then his sermon ends with a stern reminder:
“What’s at stake in Iraq is not only the future of that country, but the future of American self-confidence. We may have to endure a cycle of skepticism before we can enjoy another cycle of hope.”
Mr. Brooks, I have two words for you: Shut Up!
Here’s why I am a cynic, Mr. Brooks. I am a cynic because you are a coward. You should know better than to write this holier-than-thou crap about the American people. We are like battered and beaten survivors of the most grotesque five years in the history of this great nation.
Five years of lying.
Five years of deceit.
Five years of sound bites.
Five years of exploding deficits.
Five years of tax cuts for the wealthy.
Five years of neglect.
Pessimism, you fool. I’ll tell you about pessimism.
Pessimism is being abandoned by your government–remember Katrina?
Pessimism is going without health care.
Pessimism is 46 million uninsured.
Pessimism is The Worst President Ever.
Pessimism is the Medicare Prescription Drug Scam/Giveaway to the pharmaeucetical industry.
Pessimism is a President worse than Richard Nixon.
Pessimism is crap or non-existent body armor for our troops.
Pessimism is a President who is too isolated, too small, too foolish to meet with Cindy Sheehan. Ms Sheehan has more patriotism in her little finger than you or your President have in your entire bodies.
Pessimism is idiot “Plan for Victories” in Iraq mouthed by a man who doesn’t even know what he’s reading. Are you going to treat us to a serious dissertation about that crap in your next column?
I’m a cynic, Mr. Brooks, you’re a coward. How about some truth? Why not some straight talk about the horror of incompetent and deceitful governments?
We can deal with the facts, Mr. Brooks, it’s your shameless bullshit that’s going to bring us down.
And a WooHoo, Bravo and Boy Howdy to you!!!! Great rant.
Thanks, Nag. It feels good to get it off my chest. What a fucking loser.
Wal-Mart is “the most successful anti-poverty program in the United States?” I want what he’s smoking.
Why? I mean, I can understand relaxing and letting go, but “Dumber than a box of rocks” doesn’t really seem to me to be a level of intellectual acuity greatly to be desired.
(Except by the GOP and its friends, for whom it seems to be sort of a minimum union card requirement.)
As is fairly typical for Brooks, he manages to selectively cite to those results which make his point while ignoring other questions within some of those same polls. (For the record, here are links to the Pew Survey and the RT Strategies polls to which he refers.)
For example, Brooks notes that support for the UN has declined sharply, but he fails to point out that among the general public, 40% believe that strengthening the UN should be a top-priority long-term goal of U.S. foreign policy, while another 43% feel that it should be given some priority. Those figures are virtually unchanged from 2001 (and, in fact, the percentage naming it a top priority is up significantly since 1997). See page 13 of the full questionnaire (warning before download: 62-page PDF) for these numbers.
And Brooks fails to question the legitimacy of the RT Strategies poll in which 64% of the respondents claim to participate in political primaries or caususes either all or most of the time. (This data is in the main part of the poll, which is a different link.) As anyone who follows politics knows, the true figure is at best a quarter to a third of this result. This is likely caused by people telling the pollsters things that make them seem to be better citizens, fulfilling their patriotic duties. Combine that striving for being better with the horrendously-worded question — asking only if criticisms help morale or hurt morale, with no option for a response of “no real effect” — and the results are bound to be badly skewed.
Intellectual dishonesty is a thread that runs through most of whatever Brooks writes or says (his appearance last Friday on the Newshour with Jim Leherer in a discussion with Mark Shields was typical in this regard, as well).
He’s nothing more than a Caddilac Hannity.
He’ll give some straight talk, but only once Bush has either been removed or has brought this country to it’s knees. When it no longer serves his financial interests.