You've got to give the guy credit. David-I've-got-a-turd-in-my-pocket-Brooks produces the most consistently "no brain, no past" op/ed pieces of any writer in a major newspaper. As Todd Gitlin put it in his recent TAP essay
"Brooks No Argument", "The smile that creeps over his lips as he gets off a mot of chastisement is pleasantly self-regarding:
Look, ma, no guilt."
In his latest heap of creep, "Words into Plowshares", Brooks chastises both W and Dean for employing and encouraging discourse that will keep the US at war. "I don't mean the war in Iraq. I mean the war at home. I mean the partisan war between Republicans and Democrats that rages every day in Washington and produces behavior that would be unacceptable in any other arena of life. I mean the war that poisons our airwaves, clogs up our best-seller lists and stagnates our politics."
While going after Bush, Brooks' real target, of course, is Dean, who according to him, is a "man [who] hates his opponents. His kind thrives only during times of domestic war." Oh yeah? Then how does one explain the Gingrich-Graham(s)-Atwater-Delay-Helms-Limbaugh-Phelps-O'Reilly-Coulter kind who have thrived so well for nigh on twenty years? Could it be, perhaps, that the right wing has been engaged in unacceptable behavior for all this time, with the help of wink-wink-nudge-nudge-got-a-turd-in-my-pocket types like David Brooks to provide it a "nice guy" appearence from time to time?
Dean may have some warts, but in case David Brooks hasn't noticed, the GOP has steadily grown into a pus-filled, bile-spewing, cancerous cesspool in which float little smiley-faced turds like himself. The Dems have taken the shit for far too long, and if their performance at the recent Republican sponsored, 40-hour spewathon in the Senate is any indication, they're starting to find their spines and their voice, and Dean is helping them learn to fight and speak out.
Earth to f**king Brooks: Dean isn't the only angry voice. Listen to Europe, the Mideast, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. America could become the Nazi Germany of the 21st-century, led by Bush and turds like you, smiling all the way.
With what tone does one dissent to shit like that?