Remember columnist David Brooks'
defense for his lies in an Atlantic Monthly piece? Yes, he was just joking. Remember wondering why he wasn't funny? Turns out, sadly, we were wrong. He's a comic genius. Here's a humdinger from
yesterday's Newshour with Jim Lehrer:
LEHRER: David, is it fair to say that events have literally forced the president to have this news conference tonight?
BROOKS: Actually George Bush wakes up every morning and says, can you please let me into a room of reporters? That's what I really want to do today. No, it's clearly there's a sense, first of all, we have the crisis in Iraq last week.
Well, maybe that wasn't so funny. Here's Brooksy's sweetest irony, though:
BROOKS: The worst thing [Bush] could do is be too Pollyannaish, too much happy talk. That would be the worst possible outcome.
That's gold, Jerry!
- Marc