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Limbaugh attacks Brooks over Palin criticism: Brooks "sounds angry" and "jealous" of Palin and Limbaugh

November 16, 2009 3:05 pm ET

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David Brooks on Sarah Palin: "She's a joke"

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    • Author by shaggles (November 16, 2009 3:10 pm ET)
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      I love how well Rush takes criticism.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (November 16, 2009 3:14 pm ET)
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      Funny, but it sounds to me that Rush Limbaugh is the one who is jealous of intellectuals and other educated people.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (November 16, 2009 3:15 pm ET)
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      I've watched David Brooks for years. I like him. I like the fact that Mark Shields and Jim Lehrer like him. I think of David and he is almost always smiling and near to laughter. Of course, Rush is just projecting, especially the angry and anti-intellectual parts. I listen to what David has to say. He understands what draws people to her, but he knows or at least he hopes that voters will be smart enough not to elect her to high, national office. She wants a Talk Show. Remember a couple of months ago, Levi Loverboy said that she wanted to make a lot of money off a book and she wanted a talk show. Well, she got a lot of money for the book, and she is running around doing interviews like crazy. If Fox can give pudding face Huckabee a show, why not Sarah (she might actually be good at it)?
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      • Author by Major Tom (November 16, 2009 3:37 pm ET)
           
        I have to wonder if, behind the scenes, Rush is telling his friends not to openly endorse her. Rush has yet to endorse her for anything more than a distraction. He must see the failings of supporting a know-nothing like Palin... I mean, how could she win? Or am I putting to much credibility on Rush? Is it that, in the end, he could care less about the party he sticks up for daily, as he has no real stake in electoral politics.
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        • Author by epkklk851 (November 16, 2009 3:44 pm ET)
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          "in the end, he could care less about the party he sticks up for daily, as he has no real stake in electoral politics."

          That might be it, in the end it is all about selling and making money for Rush. He hasn't ever run for office, he just spouts off about talking points but he doesn't really talk about deep policy points. I don't think he cares. I would hope though, that he is smart enough to see how much harm someone like her would do the country. He likes to wind up his dittoheads, but he isn't endorsing them for office.
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          • Author by Major Tom (November 16, 2009 6:01 pm ET)
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            "I would hope though, that he is smart enough to see how much harm someone like her would do the country."
            That is my hope as well. I don't want Limbaugh to be influential, but if he has to be, then I truly hope he has the integrity to end a game when it gets dangerous.
            "He likes to wind up his dittoheads, but he isn't endorsing them for office."
            That's why Beck makes me cringe... He has a different take then Limbaugh. His motivation seems to go beyond money. I think he wants power, influence.
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            • Author by epkklk851 (November 16, 2009 6:09 pm ET)
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              "His motivation seems to go beyond money. I think he wants power, influence."

              You hit the nail on the head, even if he doesn't run for office, Glenn wants the power and influence that go with Washington. And that is a scary thought. He is a very sick man, and he doesn't like people. Rush seems to feel threatened by women, but he is a lot less angry and hateful than Glenn!
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (November 16, 2009 3:24 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh attacks Brooks over Palin criticism: Brooks "sounds angry" and "jealous" of Palin and Limbaugh

      Jealous of what? You two are not real conservatives. That is why he called Palin a joke and he would call you one as well.
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      • Author by epkklk851 (November 16, 2009 3:27 pm ET)
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        And so would his mentor, William F. Buckley. I wonder what Buckley would have said, really said about Sarah Palin and Rush or was he too much of a gentleman?
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        • Author by John Paradox (November 16, 2009 5:08 pm ET)
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          Then, there's Barry Goldwater....

          * Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
          o Acceptance Speech as the Republican Presidential candidate, San Francisco (July 1964)

          * When you say "radical right" today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

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          • Author by epkklk851 (November 16, 2009 6:25 pm ET)
               
            Yes, I would love to see someone with the gravitas, and good sense of a Barry Goldwater, I wouldn't agree with the person, and I wouldn't vote for them, but I could respect them. This teabag lot is embarrassing! I understand that William F. Buckley was a great guy to know, and he had a lot of liberal friends.
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    • Author by bintx (November 16, 2009 3:46 pm ET)
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      Why on earth would an intelligent man be jealous of two dunderheads like Palin and Limbaugh? Brooks is a conservative . . . the other two are not. I think Brooks is just sick of these phony conservatives pretending to be conservatives.
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      • Author by liberalXtian (November 16, 2009 4:20 pm ET)
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        Yes, he is so jealous of Rush, he is going to gain about 200 pounds and lose about 70 IQ points.
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        • Author by Lord of Light (November 16, 2009 4:46 pm ET)
             
          True, but I think Brooks is probably more jealous of Rush the ladies' man. What is it, three failed marriages and consistent polling indicating that women on the whole despise him?

          Brooks is also jealous of Palin because of her integrity -- like rejecting the Bridge to Nowhere (at least after supporting it, same difference) and having a pregnant teenage daughter while preaching abstinence-only education.
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    • Author by markslp7013 (November 16, 2009 3:52 pm ET)
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      It's always about Rush, isn't it? Did David Brooks mention Rush's name? Yet, suddenly Brooks is jealous of Rush too. It is interesting how Rush seems to be hitching his wagon to the (Palin, Beck, Hannity) stars, probably because he is an AM radio guy and that's the best he can do. He tried TV and failed. His anger (and as much as he likes to accuse people on the left as being angry, he is really the angry one) is so palpable that he couldn't be the force on TV, when you actually have to look at his anger, that he is able to be on radio. He is actually a pretty sad figure at this point....
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    • Author by Lord of Light (November 16, 2009 4:11 pm ET)
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      According to Rush, he's never been wrong in his life. Palin makes personal attacks on anyone who points out a factual error she makes and/or her obvious shortcomings (i.e., Katie Couric exposing her for not even knowing a Supreme Court case outside of Roe v. Wade -- something only a complete idiot wouldn't know). And, now, Rush is claiming Brooks is arrogant? LOL!
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