Charles Pierce slices up David Brooks and Joe Klein for defending Bain
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David Brooks, Joe Klein, and the Courtier Press
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It is very simple these days. The primary job of an elite political reporter — Joe Klein of Time, say, or David Brooks of The New York Times — is to entertain and to comfort the real owners of the country and its politics, to assure them from time to time that they are really doing the right thing in their stewardship of what was supposed to be a fractious, unruly self-governing republic. It is the elite political reporter's job, upon request, to sing to the real owners of the country a pleasant tune in a charming soprano voice. In return, they become very important players in the increasingly worthless puppet show that the real owners of the country are making out of the politics of the country.
Both Klein and Brooks have taken to the public prints to reassure Willard Romney — and, by proxy, all of the country's Willard Romneys — that he is being treated so terribly unfairly, darling, by that man in the White House who plainly does not know his place. First, we have Brooks, who never saw a plutocrat for whom he wouldn't happily serve as a footstool....
All those steelworkers, and the people at that paper company, they were puffy and self-indulgent — and not hunks of iron-reinforced man-flesh like, you know, David Brooks — and that's why none of them have jobs anymore. People at the business end of the "system" that so charms David Brooks over the canapes know the real score: The "scandals and excesses" are the system. Take them away, and Romney is clipping coupons back in Michigan.
Move we on, then, to Joe Klein who, having returned from his What's-Bothering-The-Peckerwoods Tour Of The Americas is terribly, terribly offended at the uncivil audacity of a president who seems bound and determined to make himself president again....
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