Comments on: David Brooks Enters Bush’s ‘Universe,’ Walks Away Entranced By President’s ‘Self-Confidence’

By: infotainment

infotainment — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:36:52 +0000

I laughed; I cried. It was better than Cats!

By: Juan Ginit

Juan Ginit — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:57:46 +0000

O Bigfoot again asserts that he is right because he has the documents that proves that Bush is a righteous leader, that since Bush is a Christian that he has the right to lead us into battle. Obviously, since Christians are involved and approve of their leader, the rest of us unbelievers should shut up and not criticize them. What a farce. He claims that he knows the truth, that any and all charges brought against Bush and his administration must be false, because there is no proof. O Bigfoot has his foot in his mouth, and therefore cannot see the truth. Bush is a liar and a cheat, and is so full of himself he cannot see that he is not only destroying our democracy with his false claims of executive powers and privileges but that his foreign policies have no basis in reality. Unfortunately, people like O Bigfoot worship at the feet of false gods, unlike the Christians who founded this country, and who were so wise that they wrote into our Constitution a separation of church and state so that false Christian facists could not assert that this is a Christian country without going against the spirit and words of the Constitution, thereby proving to one and all that they are traitors to the Constitution and to the democracry that has stood against people like them for over 200 years.

By: steve-annie

steve-annie — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:26:55 +0000

Apparently David Brooks has never heard medical people discuss the almost inhuman energy levels sometimes exhibited by the seriously mentally ill. Mr. Bush is a dangerous man who wouldn’t recognize reality if it spit in his eye (which it seems to be doing on a daily basis). It’s not self-confidence, you dunce, it’s madness. Too bad Lies of Our Times is no longer published. Mr. Schaap could have had a field day with this one.

By: Peter Princple

Peter Princple — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:13:35 +0000

The first is his unconquerable faith in the rightness of his Big Idea. Bush is convinced that history is moving in the direction of democracy [â€¦]Second, Bush remains energized by the power of the presidency. Some presidents complain about the limits of the office. But Bush, despite all the setbacks, retains a capacious view of the job and its possibilities.

In other words, the president is a narcissistic egomaniacs convinced he has been divinely ordained to act as the engine of history. He clings to these delusions even as his world crashes down around him. Despite an unbroken track record of failure, he believes it is his destiny to succeed, and will tolerate no limits on his powers as leader.

There were people who walked out of the bunker in Berlin in 1945 with similar impressions.

By: nikto

nikto — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:44:30 +0000

David Brooks has left the level of mere slimy sycophant and become a truly Evil liar of significant proportions.

David Brooks tells BIG, BIG lies to deceive the Public and enable tyranny and corruption.

He is a strong and willing enabler of Evil, and as such,
is thoroughly evil himself.

Yes–The Devil DOES wear dorky glasses!

By: Johnny Swank

Johnny Swank — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:41:13 +0000

When a Republican holds the Presidency, he’s a moron. When a Democrat does, he’s a God. The power makes fools of them all!!!

By: William Atkinson

William Atkinson — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:14:02 +0000

From all I have read, heard, and seen of him I believe that Bush is a psychopath. One hallmark of his affliction is the
tenacity with which he embraces belief and confidence in the face of all external evidence to the contrary. In one sense he is not
criminal but strangely innocent: he lies and dissembles in support of his convictions without the capacity to recognize, within
himself, the lies. This seems to many to demonstrate in him a stalwart, righteous, brave, and moral conviction. I think it is
anything but, and it is easy for the uncritical to be seduced by his insouciance.

By: 2 war vet

2 war vet — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:54:12 +0000

Brooks has just described a person who is absolutely INSANE! Bush has no compassion for those 30,000 dead and wounded military people.

The remarks that Dumbya believes God told him to attack Iraq as a soveriegn nation, His cherry picking intelligence, Making his boast’s of “Bring em on. Mission Accomplished, Dead or Alive, etc” Show the lack of the belief we or most of us have in God. This story actually made me almost sick!

This country will only survive if Dumbya and shoot em up Cheney, are IMPEACHED!!!!!

By: The Oracle

The Oracle — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:20:25 +0000

It’s interesting the Bush called everyone under him “tools.”

He told Brooks that he “has the tools” to presumably turn around his abyssmal poll rating and stop his legacy from sinking even further.

And he could only be referring to all the Republican politicians and Republican pundits who he views as his “tools,” who will blindly obey anything that Bush commands, even if it ends up destroying the Republican Party as well as destroying our democracy.

What a pitiful, pitiful president.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:50:21 +0000

well, we better hurry up and make ourselves amateur historians and slam the truth on their asses before their amateur historians(brooks and frum, et.al) have this fool splitting the atom, slaying dragons, running two-minute miles, filling in for Atlas, and all that insane kind of stuff they do to mythologize reagan.

By: A Richard Head

A Richard Head — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:40:58 +0000

Richard Brooks has head so far up Bush and the neo-cons ass for a long time. He’s on the News Hour on PBS all the time, spitting out the dung that he ingested. Nothing new.

By: O. Bigfoot

O. Bigfoot — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:55:27 +0000

“O.Bigfoot in O.Bigmouth

Youâ€™ve tried the â€œfounding fathersâ€¦.â€ tact before and several of us have posted quotes from those very founding fathers which debunk your position. Got any quotes from them which support the war mongering and monarchy building of BushCo?

Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) â€” July 17, 2007 @ 12:06 pm

o bigfoot,
which history would you have us read?

merely claiming knowledge of history is not, in fact, demonstrating any knowledge of history.

put up or shut up.

Comment by lonesomerobot â€” July 17, 2007 @ 12:10 pm”

I only have one question: Why should I be held to any higher standard than any of you? All I see here is opinion, baseless charges, and unbridled hatred for our country and our President. The problem is yours, not mine.

I have nothing to prove, because I know I am right. The documents and the writings are there for anyone to read, even the lazy. That you choose to ignore them is not my concern, for the documents and writings do exist for anyone who has half and inkling to seek them out and read. This country was founded on Christian principles, as a Christian nation, and with deference to the Almighty. It’s all there for anyone who cares to find out for themselves.

Simple as that.

Now, go educate yourselves, and come on back so we can have an intelligent conversation.

By: republicansscareme

republicansscareme — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:33:38 +0000

â€œ…like entering a different universe.â€

It’s called Fantasy Island, David.

By: hterrya

hterrya — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:40:42 +0000

David Brooks – Media Putz of the week for July 12, 2007. http://www.mediaputz.com

Given his recent putzy performance memorialized in this post, he may get the award for July 19, 2007, as well.

Let’s all give Media Putz David Brooks a resounding cheer:

PUTZ!!

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:20:09 +0000

‘I have the toolsâ€™

And they all come here to post comments expressing their undying support for their Dear (mis)Leader.

Tools indeed.

By: OutSourced

OutSourced — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:56:37 +0000

hterrya, read the thread, read the thread, read the thread.

By: John Gilpins

John Gilpins — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:55:43 +0000

My first reaction is why Bush can devote 110-minutes for such a trivial interview. I guess it’s a PR ploy. Don’t you think Bush has better things to do with his time?

Bush is living in la-la land. He really needs help, because he’s living in a fantasy world.

By: Dead Civilian

Dead Civilian — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:54:51 +0000

It is time for the sick, insane, degenerate old men who start these wars to suit up and start fighting them. You go first, Brooks, you sick twisted, insane degenerate old man. Take Cheney and Bush with you. Tote an M-16 in Baghdad, you’re so sure this will work. Get your chicken-hawk asses over there, stat.

Surely he wrote this column spark up the blogosphere. NO ONE who has two neurons touching could possibly believe that utter hubris and complete lack of empathy is equivalent to self-confidence. I would recommend therapy for the whole lot of them, except that it there are no known successful treatments for sociopathology.

By: trippin

trippin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:46:39 +0000

If Brooks was entranced by Bush, he has no business covering him.

Anybody who’s got their head that far up the man’s ass should recuse himself.

I was saddened to discover that poor President Bush suffers when he’s rebuffed by the familes of the dead. Boo-de-fucking-hoo-hoo.

The only ones paying a “death tax” in our country are the families of our brave fallen. You got that, Frank Luntz, you porcine maggot?

By: dsmith

dsmith — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:46:22 +0000

Theme song for Bush and the Neocons who never met a group of muslims they didn’t want to kill.

Chain…Chain..Chain…Chaine of fools.