Today, David Brooks hoists himself by his own petard of absurdist, disingenuous blather. I refer to this mendacious editorial in which he lauds Saint McCain and paints Obama as a shrewd and ruthless political opportunist masquerading as latte-sipping leftist.
Here's the key paragraph:
This guy is the whole Chicago package: an idealistic, lakefront liberal fronting a sharp-elbowed machine operator. He’s the only politician of our lifetime who is underestimated because he’s too intelligent. He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.
Such assertions would seem funny if columnists so dishonest weren't taken seriously by those who claim to speak for mainstream America. But take heart. Nauseatingly insincere though Brooks is, at this point in the political cycle, after nearly eight years of the criminal organization called the Bush Administration, such nonsense is playing to an ever-smaller audience.
In fact, there's reason to believe such nonsense actually helps Obama.
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