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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.
Glenn Greenwald [2007-09-25]

  • David Brooks is not alone . . .

    These wankers are shouting not just from the ramparts of The New York Times, they're also shouting from the Altar to the Gutter.

    Not long ago, foaming-at-the-mouth bull-Catholic Bill Donohue was claiming to speak for 85% of Americans when he attacked Kathy Griffin.

    Now Media Matters is reporting on a Bill O'Reilly rant, (the September 25 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly), where he too claims to speak for the vast majority.

    O'REILLY: The kooks, the loons have a louder voice in this country right now than the 80 percent of Americans who know what's going on, and the reason is the Internet -- the mainstream media sympathizing and using the far-left loons, OK, to crash and burn any opposition.

    http://mediamatters.org/items/200709250009

    I'm sure Meredith Wilson and Franklin Lacey could write a wonderful musical with this material . . .

    "Ya got trouble, folks, right here in Factor City

    With a capital 'T' and that rhymes with 'C'

    And that stands for 'Crock'".

    -- Squeaky McCrinkle
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    Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:16 AM
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