So, it has come to this on the hallowed op/ed pages of the NYT:
The Keyboard Kingpin, aka Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, sits at his computer, fires up his Web site, Daily Kos, and commands his followers, who come across like squadrons of rabid lambs, to unleash their venom on those who stand in the way," writes Brooks. "And in this way the Kingpin has made himself a mighty force in his own mind, and every knee shall bow
More below.
Raw Story has obtained an advance look at
David Brooks' Sunday column - and it's all about us! See if you can recognize yourself and our community in the following drivel.
Brooks suggests that Markos is a hypocrite for lashing out at The New Republic for leaking the private emails.
"The Kingpin waxed Cheneyesque on the evils of leaking, and this time the squeaking fury of the Kossacks could be heard (to those capable of discerning high frequencies) far and wide," writes Brooks.
Brooks also compares Markos to the indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
"The Kingpin is not surprised by such betrayals," opines Brooks. "Sounding like Tom DeLay -- who is his moral doppelgaenger -- Kos says that those who crash the gates and take on the establishment are bound to be attacked."
Yep. Kos is like Tom Delay... And we follow him like the pathetic lemmings that we are. Please, Kos, not over the cliff!
Brooks, the inventor of cute sobriquets for his simplistic sociological formulations, has finally outdone himself. If he really believes that Kos is the leader of a mindlessly obedient flock, he's never visited us here...
Yes, folks, the hacks and flacks of war have been loosed. We must be doing something right.
Update: For those who may be feeling a twinge of doubt, Raw Story has confirmed to me that the column has already been sent out on the NYT News Service. Yes, he really is that bad a writer...