Wonkette
So David Brooks wrote an annoying little column today about this: “McCain started out with the same sort of kibitzing campaign style that he used to woo the press back in 2000. It didn’t work. This time there were too many cameras around and too many 25-year-old reporters and producers seizing on every odd comment to set off little blog scandals.” Those 25-year-old reporters and “little blog” rats should be proud of themselves, wouldn’t you think, if they were the ones not whorish enough to buy John McCain’s offers of friendship and let him get away with everything?
It’s just so terrible, that not everyone will let John McCain get away with his (a) massive stupidity and (b) INSANE foreign policy choices in this current election cycle, the one that follows eight years of George W. Bush:
McCain started with grand ideas about breaking the mold of modern politics. He and Obama would tour the country together doing joint town meetings. He would pick a postpartisan running mate, like Joe Lieberman. He would make a dramatic promise, like vowing to serve for only one totally nonpolitical term. So far it hasn’t worked. Obama vetoed the town meeting idea. The issue is not closed, but G.O.P. leaders are resisting a cross-party pick like Lieberman.
McCain started with one idea, and one idea only: win! WIN THE PRESIDENCY! Make the necessary choices to achieve this end! Kill everyone!
The Education of McCain [New York Times]
The media made me evil, too. Whom do I sue?
Brooks should just stop masturbating to the pics of young John McCain. It might clear his head.
The media made McCain evil? And here I thought it was the pact he made with the Devil when he spoke at Bob Jones “University” that time.
Not whorish? Blog rats not whorish? Zero whore diamonds for you, Jim. And I hope you’re satisfied.
i blame teh gayz
including David Brooks and Billy Kristol
effete leftwing homosexuals like these are ruining our country and taking up too much of our precious bodily fluids…send them back to Arakis where they belong!
Didn’t Mr Brooks mean to say, “cross-party prick like Lieberman”? ‘Cause that just about nails him. The word’s out, isn’t it?
Hold on… “vowing to serve for only one totally nonpolitical term”.
That’s the October surprise, isn’t it? McCain says, “I’m only after one term”, suddenly the PUMA / Clintards get their dream of Hillary 2012, Obama loses 10% of his voters.
Aaaaaaaaaargh!
McCain started with one idea, and one idea only…but then he forgot what it was.
So McCain should run his campaign like Leisure World - no one under the age of 55 permitted for more than a 2-day period every three months?
The media hates an old gimpy armed republican presidential candidate? Bob Dole redux, sans Viagra endorsement (lest Cindy mistake them for Vicodin)
Before John McCain noticed he wasn’t winning in each and every state John McCain was like Jesus and his campaign officials were like the Apostles. Then they looked at some polls and John McJesus and the APOWstles had to become the Devil to defeat the undercover Muslim, and it is totally not relevant that this is what every single Republican nominee has done in his campaign for the last 40 odd years, rather, this is a story about Jesus’ Republican redemption on Earth.
John McCain has been totally non-partisan for like, EVER. Like when he was on Meet the Press and was all like “I am a proud, proud Republican that was in on the Reagan revolution, and I’m proud of my conservative record.”
Or like when “McCain ‘Accidentally’ Calls Himself a Liberal Republican” http://www.electiongeek.com/blog/2008/02/29/mccain-accidentally-calls-himself-a-liberal-republican/
Er YOU KNOW HE’S SOMETHIN’!
OH WAIT he said the same thing that he said on Meet the Press again at a conference he held with troop people-types:
“I am proud, very proud, to have come to public office as a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution,” McCain said to the conference.”
I am SOO confused right now. I’m pretty sure that WALNUTS is not a Republican and not a Democrat, but rather a very large, self-motivated piggy bank. Thank you Brooks for being an asshat. Fuck your column, and eat a dick.
V572625694: It was the banality filters rewriting text. He also meant to write “buttsecs loving faggots” but it was rewritten to Republicans.
So many lies and bullshit to sift through.
A. Walnuts hasn’t proposed A SINGLE “grand idea” this whole campaign, unless you think gas tax holidays and offshore drilling count.
B. He never promised to make Lierberfuck his running mate or serve one term.
I was going to start my own blog and bring McCain down, but when I realized that blogs don’t make you rich but just famous, I figured it wasn’t worth the trouble.
I did start the blog revolution that brought down Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo and George Pataki. Yep, that was me. Go ahead and trumpet my prowess all over the web. I expect David Brooks to give me mad props on his next appearance on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
I wonder is Brooks and Bill Kristol do things together in their spare time. Like golf and buttsex.
…ok?! So now its Barry’s fault that WAlNUTS! cant pick the VP that he really wants?! Really?!
Botswana Meat Commission FC: I am strongly convicted to say that David Brooks is the worst columnist on the planet, and quite possibly the universe. He takes terrible and makes it look like decent. He also makes Lightning Rod Kristol look like a fucking scholar.
Now explain your pink shirts, you horrid little yuppie prick.
I would have gotten away with it too! If it weren’t for those meddling kids, and those bloooogs.
So this guy in the media says don’t listen to the media, its their fault that the politician no longer plans to get elected to serve a nonpolitcal term.
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[I]“McCain started out with the same sort of kibitzing campaign style that he used to woo the press back in 2000. It didn’t work. This time there were too many cameras around and too many 25-year-old reporters and producers seizing on every odd comment to set off little blog scandals.”[/I]
If only there weren’t SO MANY odd comments, hopeless stammerings, rerun jokes (”A K, a B, and a G!! Get it!?!?!”), nodding-offs, mispronounciations, apparent seizures, non-sequitors, not to mention the hiring of insane people to his staff, appointing psychotics to be his surrogates…
Yeah, it’s all the librul media’s fault.
We should all vote for politicians based on the whimsically utopian super-humanoids they set out to be before the rigors of pesky real life settled in.
John Edwards ‘08?
“This time there were too many cameras around and too many 25-year-old reporters and producers seizing on every odd comment to set off little blog scandals.”
You mean that some people actually noticed that he thought Afganistan and Iraq shared a border, that he didn’t know the difference between Sunnis and Shias, and that the country called ‘Czechoslovakia’ hasn’t existed for 18 years? All coming from a man who touted his expertise in foreign policy?
There are a lot of ‘odd comments’ coming out of Walnuts. Good thing there were 25 year olds around to hear them. They just blew past the heads of the thirty somethings.
Describing McCain with the Charming Ruffian card:
“ne’er-do-well”
“long-running rebellion”
“…frantic and freewheeling,,,unpredictable, untamed and, at some level, unprofessional…”
“snips and snails and puppy dogs tails”
Once again, David Brooks is giving Sean Hannity a serious woodie. What a tease!
itgetter: And Ron Paul is still President of the Lizard People.
Amazing that a politician that started out idealistic becomes more pragmatic over time. Without David Brooks we wouldn’t know about this. Future columns will cover rain being rather wet, it being darker in the night vs. the day, and rural defecation locations of bears.
Isn’t Brooks a member of the…erm…media? Or does writing for a commie rag like the NYT not count?
Only fire can purge this stupidity.
i always enjoy a good smoke when i’m postpartisan
Why does the NYT feel like it has to run columns by yuppie wingnut assholes? Do they really think that’s going to convince anyone they’re not a liberal rag? Be left and be proud of it, fercrissakes.
David Brooks is proof that there’s a conspiracy out there on the part of the liberal media. They give a guy like him a column in the New York Times and it makes conservatives look like bigger fools than they actually are. When the Times picked up Bill Kristol, that was just piling on.
Larry McAwful: I have yet to see anyone make conservatives look like bigger fools than they are. Even Brooks.
Their gold standard is Dubya, for Chrissakes.
It’s those damn kids. They wouldn’t get off his lawn, bum rushed the door, and took McCain’s campaign hostage. Now they’re running the kind of gutter campaign that McCain would be decrying if the didn’t have his family. THEY HAVE HIS FAMILY!!!!! Have mercy on him, John McCain isn’t responsible for the actions of John McCain’s campaign.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Botswana Meat Commission FC: You’re quite right that these “columnists” love to excoriate candidates for repudiating things they, the columnists, wish the candidates had said but never did. What’s up with that? Oh, I know: they’ve got to produce 850 words/week, come hell or high water, and they don’t ever want to get off their fat asses to do any actual “reporting.” Ew.
shortsshortsshorts: I don’t think Brooks can claim the worst-in-the-universe title while Kristol is still “working.” And there’s a silicon-based-creature writing for the Alpha Centauri Purple Sun who makes Brooks and Kristol look like Plato and Socrates. Don’t get me started on @z$r%xd’s latest!
But what does Brooks really think of that trollop taunting, cunt-calling maverick?
Shorter David Brooks : “Walnuts is a NE’ER DO WELL. By that I mean he’s cute and endearing! I pop a woodie when this little rascal kids around about war with Russia. Ha, ha, only serious! Oh god, I just thought about his inevitable smackdown by Hopey and I shit my pants.”
Of course, if Obama ran a campaign much like Brooks wished McCain did, Brooks and his cohorts would never, ever jump all over Obama over any boo-boo he said. Instead, they’d all write glowing treatises to the infinite awesomeness of Obama’s freewheeling style.
shortsshortsshorts: But there’s so many to choose from. There’s Charles Krauthammer and George Will still out there, not to mention anyone named Goldberg. Oh, and you can’t forget MoDo.
Hooray For Anything: V572625694: While there are some real winners out there, Brooks just strikes me as an unaccomplished moran. He’s the guy who said critics of the Iraq War are anti-Semites (which is totally true), and that discourse last week, with his proto-philosopher views, proves that he is even more of an arrogant shit bag than Lightning Rod Kristol. While it may be difficult to judge who is the ultimate assbag of columns, I think he’s been not only taking the cake for the last month, but shoving the cake up his distorted man-ass.
David Brooks is like David Broder’s own personal Picture of Dorian Grey. Except instead of one getting older and the other getting younger, they both just remain permanently retarded.
FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN of torture sure made John McCain & Friends a whiny little bitch about the media. ONLY Obama’s crazy religious guide (read: any religious guide) gets picked apart for his batshit remarks; at the same time a cable network runs multiple stories that Obama went to a madrassa; … and John McCain invites his girlfriends over for cheesecake and a lifetime movie of the week to cry because the media calls him out on his dishonest shit maybe once every 2 months?
I knew Mac became like Bush politically, I didn’t know the change extended to his pampered little-girl sensitivity too.
With a foreign policy that is saying “victory is in sight” in Iraq and we need a war with the Russians and the awful bloggers are making him say this … or wait, are they making him not say it? isn’t stupid foreign policy and absurd domestic policy enough to get you in office anymore? well damn. get the slime.
Also, from Brooks’ column, a read that is not as awful as Kristol’s so that I don’t boycott reading his lies and am willing to give him the extra click for page views:
“The man who hopes to inspire a new generation of Americans now attacks Obama daily. It is the only way he can get the networks to pay attention.”
Actually, David, Obama and that prestigious incredibly penetrating muckraking media have had absolutely nothing to do with McCain not already vowing a nonpolitical term (which, really, would mean leaving the Republican party if elected) and not selecting his tag team partner in selling out, Joe Lieberman, as his running mate. What would the media have done, not covered either announcement? You are retarded and I hope Kristol keeps inviting you to lunch at the Times headquarters awkwardly every day until you can’t think of a good excuse and accept.
At least this time the wingnuts didn’t blame the blogosphere.
Have they finally figured out that the old, senile bats supporting McCain are scared of those “computer thingies”?
Fear of a Black Reagan:
Goddamn, another great Wonkette handle.
A slight correction to the grammar is called for. The media made McCain. Evil.
“Obama vetoed the town meeting”
Vetoing sounds … presidential.
Brooks wrote an annoying column? Holy crap! What other news is there? The sun came up, taxes must be paid, death is coming…
Cut Brooks some slack. My guess is he outlined this article weeks ago before he left town for the Vineyard and filed it from there. He has to get to the barbie don’t ya know!
I actually kind of agree with Brooks somewhat in that the kind of campaign the media keeps on wishing we had, the kind McCain wanted to do, would definitely be a great thing for the American political system and for our country. The problem with it is that the same people in the media who who keep on wishing politicians ran the kind of campaigns they call for would raise holy hell anytime said politician who runs that kind of campaign screws up. So politicians don’t.
He would pick a postpartisan running mate, like Joe Lieberman.
Ugh. Joe gives me postpartisan depression.
McCain kilt McAbel, didn’t he? That may not be original sin, but it’s close.
Hooray For Anything: That, and McCain is a total douche who’d fuck the Bishop of Rome down his throat to get elected.
Get it? It’s a word play on “elected,” cause the Bishop of Rome is also the Pope, who has to get “elected.”
Anyhoo.
Hooray For Anything: “the kind McCain wanted to do” ??? I came back to this. What does that mean? Do you think John McCain wanted to do anything other than that which would get him elected? He’s a fucking pyscho-trollop-bashing-cunt-calling-married-to-a-duck-finger-fucking-trollop-opportunist.
Which, despite being the best semi-drunken comment EVAR (note: I concede that all full drunken comment kudos go to ANGRYBLACKGUY), is the TOOTH.
Ughmeh. I’ve got to deal with my soon-to-be institutionalized child this week. And GET OFF MY LAWN makes me want to do bad things to puppies. Blarchghg. I’m sorry.
Marlon Brando voice Juli! Juli! I coulda been a contenda!
And I’m done.
/mike drops
no one reads comments on posts off the front page.