Since David Brooks (a.k.a. Bobo) was given his sweet piece of op-ed real estate as a regular NY Times columnist, he has evidenced an ever-greater eagerness to contort his supposed principles into weird, kinky positions just to smooch Republican ass.
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Yesterday he outdid himself in the opening paragraphs of his column
column about Senate majority leader Bill "Cat Killah" Frist.
Bobo starts out talking about how, as a young fellow, Frist basically abandoned his bride at the altar because of a fling with some hoochie he met two days before the wedding:
Bill Frist was his high school's class president. He was a quarterback on the football team and a member of the honor society, and lived amid the upper crust of Nashville society. He dated the head cheerleader, and while he was in med school they were engaged to be married.
But while interning in Boston, he met another woman, spent a dinner and a night with her, and fell in love. Two days before his wedding, he flew back to Nashville and broke off his engagement. "Everyone listened carefully to what I said, all the lame explanations I had that were and were not the truth," Frist later wrote, "and they nodded and dealt with it and I went on my way."
I've always admired that anecdote. It took guts to break off the grand wedding that was in the works - to risk alienating everyone he had grown up with for the sake of the woman he had suddenly come to love. Furthermore here was a Bill Frist who knew his own heart.
Hmm. Let's review.
Good little Christian boy Bill Frist is engaged to be married to his high school sweetheart.
But he meets some other babe and they make the beast with two backs (that is, have THE SEX) 48 hours before the wedding.
He goes back and tells some combination of truth and lies to everyone, leaves his poor fiance heartbroken, with a one-way ticket to Dumpsville.
But then -- to believe Fristie -- everyone "nods", and the Scourge of All Cats "goes on his way." Apparently with no consequences, except for a nice new piece of ass.
And Brooks ADMIRES this. He takes it as a sign of MORAL RECTITUDE, and as a mark of man who KNOWS HIMSELF. .
...Rather than, say, a man who couldn't keep his dick in his pants, who has no fucking clue what he wants, and who is perfectly willing to hurt people, badly, because of his selfish, lust-filled desires.
This is the upside-down world of Bobo Brooks -- and just about every other Republican cheerleader -- where every GOP vice is a virtue.
You don't even have to imagine for two seconds -- do you? -- how Brooks and his Brothers in GOP Propaganda would spin this anecdote if the protagonist were, oh, say, a DEMOCRAT?
It writes itself.
"From an early age [Clinton, Clark, Kerry, Edwards -- your favorite Dem here] showed little moral fiber, abandoning his poor bride at the altar for a base carnal impulse which..."
Oh, I can't go on without feeling the vomit come up, just a wee bit.
The GOP and their propaganda squad are the ultimate moral relativists. They have no principles so dear that they won't drop them in a friggin' hearbeat to grab and keep power.
Up is down. Yes is no. Vices are Virtues.
And hot damn, it really is OK if you're a Republican.