NP - This Week in Fake American History -- UPDATE II

[Madeleine Maudlin]

No, well don't get me wrong, if I ever bothered to read Brooks anymore I
may become as agitated as David.  As it is I pay less attention to him than
Paul mentions.  I like the idea that it's as good getting upset at Brooks
as it is standing outside the Times headquarters and shaking a fist at the
building.  But I'm much, vastly more interested in foreign policy anyway.
 Don't get me started on that insufferable slimy wanker I mentioned--

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> He's the Sociologist of the Group of 'Em..
>
> LIKE this....
>
> But what saddens and sickens even more, imho, is his indoctrination IS
> more self-created than some....
> He started on the police beat.....Ever read his good, I daresay, essay on
> Trollope's Way We Live Now?
> His book satirizing the middle class had some good obs, again I daresay....
>
> But his success or whatever, his Candlebrow-like immersion in other
> people's thoughts AND the tendencies
> of his own biases................has rendered him
>
> as dramatically out-of-touch as Morris' mini-essays show.........
>
>    *From:* Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
> *To:* David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>; pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:32 PM
> *Subject:* Re: NP - This Week in Fake American History -- UPDATE II
>
> Brooks got tapped, what can you say.  Nobody would refuse the job who
> could be tapped.  Brooks writes what the Times wants him so write; he's not
> human in the sense of free will, free mind.  He's a deeply indoctrinated
> human who fit the bill at the right time.
>
> He's the Sociologist of the Group of 'Em.  He's about as free as the
> Foreign Policy Expert, who you'll recall, thought invading Iraq was
> Necessary and Good, and who now believes that We just *didn't do it right.
> *
> *
> *
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:24 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Or as Driftglass puts it:
>
> -each concoction deliver would would be career terminating kill-shots
> if holding journalists accountable for purveying horseshit as history
> was something we still did in this country.
>
> But those days are long gone.
>
> Instead, Mr. Brooks will go right on making a living spooning this
> weak, watery poo into the pages of "The New York Times".
>
> He will continue doing it twice a week, 800 words at a time.
>
> And for this minimal effort Mr. Brooks will continue to reap truly
> regal rewards.
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> > On 5/30/2012 11:34 AM, David Morris wrote:>>
> >> David Brooks continues to concoct new ways to excuse this behavior,
> >> and he's probably going to burn in hell for it.
> >>
> >
> > I never read David Brooks.  Well, actually I glance at his columns over
> > breakfast. Then I go upstairs to the computer and look at the reader's
> > comments. Poor David Brooks.  It all sounds so good and reasonable while
> > he's writing it--only to be instantly and easily shot all to pieces. The
> > same thing happens to the books he writes. But he has the patience and
> > forbearance of Job. He soldiers on. He can't help himself. He reminds me
> of
> > Dr. Strangelove, trying to act so sane and normal, then slipping into his
> > Nazi salute. I know I'm being unfair in this last, but I can't help
> myself
> > either.
> >
> > P
> >
> >
> >
> > P
> >
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