David Brooks

The Big Confusion: "Moderates" and "Independents" Are Not the Same Thing

John Zogby | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dede Scozzafava, Moderates, David Brooks, Public Opinion Polls, Independent Voters, Public Opinion, Ny-23, Democrats, David Hoffman, Republicans, Politics News

In a recent New York Times piece, David Brooks divided the electorate into liberals, conservatives and independents. This view mistakes a lack of party affiliation for ideological innocence.

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Obama Has Off-The-Record Lunch With Journalists At White House

Politico | Posted by Michael Calderone 03:13 PM | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Andy Rosenthal, Jon Meacham, Cynthia Tucker, David Gergen, Mara Liasson, Howard Fineman, David Brooks, Mike Allen, Obama Journalists, Josh Marshall, Obama Journalists Lunch, Chris Cillizza, Gail Collins, Media News

The attendees for Friday's lunch were as follows: CNN's David Gergen, Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman, the...

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Keep Going, Republicans! You're Doing Great!

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pat Buchanan, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Democratic Party, Michelle Malkin, Mark Halperin, Michele Bachmann, David Brooks, Political Parties, Blue Dogs, Erick Erickson, David Frum, Glenn Beck, Christopher Buckley, Republican Party, Chris Cillizza, Republicans, Politics News

If recent polling is any indication, people don't want to be associated with the party that elevates the self-satirical wackaloons. Especially when they refuse to be honest about who they are.

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Reaction to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is Another "Teaching Moment"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Are we incapable of recognizing the simple fact that it is much better for America to have a president who is admired and respected in the world than one who is despised and feared?

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When Pundits Attack: The Beck-Brooks Fight

Ari Melber | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Glen Beck, Van Jones, David Brooks, Right Wing Talk Radio, Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Conservative Talk Radio, Glenn Beck, 2008 Election, Media News

After the summer of townhalls and what's shaping up as the autumn of Glenn Beck, it is hard to see things through David Brooks' bifocals.

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Brooks: Beck, Limbaugh Have No Real Power, GOP Falling For "Media Mythology"

New York Times | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

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Let us take a trip back into history. Not ancient history. Recent history. It is the winter of 2007. The presidential primaries are approaching. The t...

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For Liberty Examines the Kingmakers

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Boaz, War on Terror, Rasmussen Poll, Antiwar Movement, Grassroots, Markos Moulitsas, Ron Paul, George W. Bush, David Kirby, Thomas Jefferson, Libertarian, Campaign for Liberty, Republican Convention, 2008 Election, CNN Poll, Arianna Huffington, Afghanistan War, Daily Kos, Iraq War, Nicholas Sanchez, Joe Scarborough, Tax Day Tea Parties, For Liberty, David Brooks, Alternative Media, Grover Norquist, Tea Party, Republican Party, Swing Voters, Republicans, 2010 Elections, 2012 Election, Politics News

The documentary For Liberty beautifully shows us what Markos Mousitlas called the only true people-powered campaign in 2008: Ron Paul's campaign.

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Obama, America and Race

Robert Slayton | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Racism, Jimmy Carter, Racism, Racism in Politics, David Brooks, Barack Obama, Bull Connor, Racist, Politics News

Obama is a lot of things that are scary, and only one of these is the fact that he is black.

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The Wyden - Bennett Healthy Americans Act: Why Not Just Say Yes?

Lanny Davis | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Nelson, Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Wyden-Bennett-Healthy-Americans-Act, Maria Cantwell, Lamar Alexander, Bob Bennett, Judd Gregg, Tom Carper, Daniel Inouye, Ezra Klein, David Brooks, Mike-Crapo, Politics News

What exactly does the HAA accomplish that could possibly attract such broad, bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate? Universal health insurance coverage and immediate deficit neutrality in the first two years.

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Tom Friedman's Take On "Wimps" and "The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business

How are we going to compete in years to come as we go head-to-head with societies that are far better equipped to deal with the exigencies of the future?

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Sever the Link Between Populism and Racism

Scott Kurashige | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: History, David Brooks, Racism, Jimmy Carter, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Media News

David Brooks is a very clever and gifted writer. But his latest piece repudiating the role of race in the vitriolic backlash against Obama just doesn't pass muster.

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Who Called Ms. Manners?

Simon Maxwell Apter | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Washington Post, Espn, The Far Side, Kathleen Parker, David Brooks, Jeremy Schaap, Media News

Are New York Times readers, and ESPN viewers really well-served by commentaries that essentially boil down to, "Don't be rude; it's not really helpful to anyone?"

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David Brooks' Lies on Health Care Reform: An Incomplete List

David Fiderer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Cbo, Pbs Newshour, Democrats, Congressional Budget Office, Barack Obama, George Stephanopoulos, Bill Kristol, David Brooks, Katie Couric, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Fred Barnes, Media News

A lot of people buy in to Brooks' pseudo-intellectual shtick for making grand pronouncements that presume to define reality.

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Hopeville in Autumn

James Campion | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Address to Congress, David Brooks, Health Care Reform, Cap and Trade, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

It is a speech Obama should have given three months ago. It was nothing more than a pep talk, a call to arms. What was needed was a final summation.

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Barack Obama's Short Slide

John Kenneth White | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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Is Obama in deep trouble? Not as much as people think thanks to changing demographics. Republicans have stubbornly refused to recognize this new demography, preferring instead to fondly remember the old days.

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The Public Option is Popular, Moral and Inexpensive, Therefore it Must Die

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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There's no ambiguity about it. The public option is resoundingly popular, fiscally conservative and morally sound. It's centrist, it's liberal, it's conservative. Unless you don't believe in, you know, numbers.

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Public Opinion and Health Care: Fearmongering on the Right

David Moore | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Polls, Right Wing Pundits, David Brooks, Media News

When forced to express an opinion specifically about Obama's plan, most poll respondents will. But if permitted, they will also admit that they really don't know much about it.

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Who Will Be Hurt if the Democrats Pass Health Care Alone

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Public Option, Ronald Reagan, Death Panels, Lyndon B. Johnson, David Brooks, Nazi Policies, Great Society, Socialism, Medicare, Bipartisanship, Bipartisan, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Politics News

If the Democrats pass the health care bill, and are able to do it with a public option, the Republicans will have once again put themselves on the opposing side of groundbreaking legislation.

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Obama's Best Frenemy

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Leadership Council, Politics, Dlc, David Brooks, Health Care Reform, New York Times, Glenn Hurowitz, Democratic Party, Health Care, Barack Obama, Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party, Political Strategy, Politics News

Obama put his persuasive power on hold while he got sucked into an insider negotiation with Congressional centrists -- and has been unable to make a morally compelling case for his agenda.

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David Brooks' Barack Obama Bromance: Inside The Unlikely Situation

The New Republic | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

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These days, the center-right Brooks frequently seems more sympathetic toward Obama than the liberal Paul Krugman. He has written columns praising Obam...

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O'Reilly, Beck, Olbermann and Maddow: Venomous Snakes?

Charles Warner | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

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No one wants to watch normal, well-adjusted, happy, rational, reasonable people on TV; they're boring -- like C-SPAN or the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.

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Addicted to Health Care

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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Americans are addicted to health care. They demand more and more of it, at any cost, whatever the consequences.

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David Brooks Slams Obama's "Liberal Suicide March"

New York Times | DAVID BROOKS | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

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It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor s...

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Powell, Empathy, Perspective, Quota System, Justice Lewis Powell, Affirmative Action, America, Conservative, Image of God, Brian McLaren, Story of Creation, Justice, Constitution, Affirmative Action Policies, Hispanic, God, Tower of Babel, Confirmation Hearing, David Brooks, Hispanic Woman, Diversity, Race, Racism, Jonathan Sacks, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Segregation, Regents of the University of California v Bakke, New York Times, Inequality, Creation, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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The Simple Arithmetic of David Brooks' Deceitful Claims on Health Care Reform

David Fiderer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Taxes, Health Care Reform, Washington Times, Health Care, David Brooks, Chris Matthews, Media News

Only a tiny percentage of millionaires would ever pay a significant dollar amount for the tax surcharge associated with health care reform. To obscure this obvious truth, David Brooks has launched a series of deceptions.

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