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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:00 AM

David Brooks and the deceitful tactics of the Beltway pundit

The only real goal of the Beltway pundit is to depict Washington orthodoxies as popular among "most Americans," even when they are not.

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  • Tuesday, September 25, 2007 05:51 AM

    Damn The NYT For Abolishing Times Select...

    ... now Brooks' radioactive garbage, which is written with the same Mad Libs program that David Broder's columns are, has been leaked into the general populace again.

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