Quotes of the day
posted at 9:40 pm on August 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Everyone seems to ignore that Pelosi started this, saying town hall participants were showing up with swastikas, etc. That’s calling them Nazis, as Dick Durbin referred to our Gitmo interrogators from the Senate floor. I’ve been listening to the left compare George W. Bush to Hitler for eight years. I’ve been listening to Democrats and the left compare conservatism to Nazis my whole career. This time I responded. In kind, by comparing the radical left policies of the Nazis to today’s radical left leadership of the Democrat Party. I’m not surprised they don’t like it.”
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Brooks seems to enjoy his role as useful idiot. Maybe he ought to tune in to EIB tomorrow for his beatdown.
JammieWearingFool on August 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Wtf is that guy talking about.
p0s3r on August 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Let’s get ready to RUMBLE!
thomasaur on August 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM
I think I could give Brooks a massive wedgie, and I have the strength of a lawn gnome.
Pasalubong on August 9, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Bummer
No Kathleen Parker.
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 9:45 PM
There are no more “columnists” at the New York Slimes.
Propagandists, Liars, Charlatans, Shills, and Misanthropes, they have those coming out of the woodwork over there.
pilamaye on August 9, 2009 at 9:45 PM
That bubble around the DC-NYC corridor is somethin’ else!
SouthernGent on August 9, 2009 at 9:47 PM
The truth stares them in the face, and like holy water to satan….IT BURNS!!!!
capejasmine on August 9, 2009 at 9:47 PM
You can always count on progressives to bring a knife to a gun fight.
Every time one of these idiots get’s into a fight with Rush they quickly retreat and try and pretend it never happened and the media covers the their tracks.
RobertInLexington on August 9, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Brooks is embarassing. Who the hell still calls him a conservative?
PaCadle on August 9, 2009 at 9:48 PM
David Brooks is crazy. But, at least, he represents the Vichy Right perfectly. Adolf is proud of you and wants you to keep up the fight in North Africa, pantywaste.
progressoverpeace on August 9, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Pelosi started it by pointing out that these people were showing up with swastikas?
Nonfactor on August 9, 2009 at 9:49 PM
This type of stuff used to get me more upset.
Now, I just want to tell the defenders of Compassionate, Statist, Über-Interventionalist Conservatism:
“Uh, yeah. Strike number 10000.”
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Is it just me or does David Gregory have the face of a silver back gorilla?
milwife88 on August 9, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Obama so “elequently”? Make the plan more “Obama-like”? Good lord, David: spit or swallow???
Pasalubong on August 9, 2009 at 9:50 PM
They STILL don’t get it, Rush isn’t backing down. Once again Saul Alinsky is failing the left…he was supposed to backtrack and slink away after they went after him. But he’s not.
StevefromMKE on August 9, 2009 at 9:50 PM
David Brooks is….
…
ladyingray on August 9, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Nice cartoon:
http://s80.photobucket.com/albums/j191/mikesamerica/mikesamerica2/?action=view¤t=lb0806cd20090805125456.jpg
pearson on August 9, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Rush was right on and I can’t wait for his response tomorrow to Pelosi’s claim that we are unamerican for exercising our rights.
califdreamnred on August 9, 2009 at 9:51 PM
FIFY
thomasaur on August 9, 2009 at 9:51 PM
I think what she is referring to is a sign I saw protesting ObamaCare as Nazi like and it had the double lightning bolt on the sign.
Then again, she could just be making crap up, CIA lies, Swastikas when it could have been a Hello Kitty sticker she saw. You never know with these folks.
RobertInLexington on August 9, 2009 at 9:51 PM
“Conventional wisdom among the smartest people in Washington.” Enough said.
Rode Werk on August 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM
This man is certainly entitled to his opinion but why oh why can’t they get a real conservative to be the voice of the opposition?
Cindy Munford on August 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Maybe we should call him Blniky Brooks. Anyone else notice just how many times his eyes were blinking while he talked? That kind of facial behavior strikes me as reflecting mental instability, lack of credibility, or both.
OneVision on August 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
“Nonfactor on August 9, 2009 at 9:49 PM”
well, technically she lied about them showing up with swastikas, but yes that was the “opening salvo” …
Buckaroo on August 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
…Meanwhile, another crazy embraces the Palin Death Panel memo…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/09/gingrich-defends-palins-o_n_254926.html
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
I want to see Limbaugh make Brooks cry like a little girl.
Blake on August 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
David Brooks is glowing. Gregory must be squeezing his thigh.
Punchenko on August 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
thomasaur on August 9, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Point taken…he does sling a lot of shit around.
milwife88 on August 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
When you have the opponent’s playbook the game changes, and if the keep using the same plays it shows their stupidity.
thomasaur on August 9, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Damn this lack of spell-check!
Prior post should read “Blinky” Brooks.
OneVision on August 9, 2009 at 9:54 PM
“Crazy” “Crazy” “Crazies” but Obama is “Truthful” and “Elegant”. There’s something I’d like to slap out of this fool’s mouth.
Marcus on August 9, 2009 at 9:54 PM
The thing about Brookes’ response that is so upsetting is that it comes from Brookes himself.
You know, Brookes, the well-educated man that probably had to learn something about Nazism and Fascism.
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 9:54 PM
She was trying to distort the protesters who were making the point that CONGRESS was acting like Nazis. It was a sad panicked response. Same thing with Reid and “astro turfing”.
Sorry to deviate, but maybe a post about Ezekiel Emanuel. Rahm’s brother, and oh brother! (meet the new Health Care Reform czar)
“According to his NIH bio, Dr. Emanuel is “widely published on the ethics of clinical research, advance care directives, end-of-life issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship”
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/02/dr_ezekiel_emanuel_rahms_broth.html
Ozprey on August 9, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Democrats have the votes to push anything they want through. Like Obama said, “I won”. Yeah, they won. Why do they need to demonize dissenters?
bitsy on August 9, 2009 at 9:55 PM
You mean like this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/496885979_58c745ca94.jpg?v=0
pearson on August 9, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Kristol made a wise decision leaving the NY Slimes.
Any republican that works for the paper is deranged.
jencab on August 9, 2009 at 9:55 PM
s/b if they keep
thomasaur on August 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Are you slow or just oxygen deprived?
CWforFreedom on August 9, 2009 at 9:57 PM
“He’s gotta make the plan Obama-like.” What a turd.
Ted Torgerson on August 9, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Who is this everyone? I’m not ignoring the fact nor am I ignoring the fact the the filthy liar in the White House showed up at a campaign rally for Criegh Deeds and told the opposition to shut up and get out of the way.
As a resident of Virginia, I’ve asked the Democrat Party chair if Deeds is really holding by the idea that bipartisanship is dead. Still awaiting a response.
highhopes on August 9, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Why do none of your posts ever have a point?
massrighty on August 9, 2009 at 9:57 PM
The plan is perfectly Obama-like: divisive, arrogant, and confused.
pearson on August 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM
That is the funny thing.
They don’t need no stinkin pub votes
CWforFreedom on August 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Nothing makes an argument solid like referring to people as “crazies.”
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Good question
CWforFreedom on August 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM
You left out a couple of other choices, but the T.O.U. don’t leave me room to list them…
The last word is necklace, though.
massrighty on August 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Rush really needs to be in Washington.
I am sick of the GOP beltway scared to say the obvious. The Nazi party is the national socialist party for Germany.
If the liberals are going to label republicans and conservatives as Nazis, it’s time to go full scale and label these liberal jerks.
They can not be allowed to create the narrative, and for the GOP to stay silent.
jencab on August 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM
I don’t trust the government to “cut costs”. I expect the government will increase costs, reduce options, crowd out competition and alternatives, drive quality of care into the ground, stifle inovation, put an uncaring ill informed buracrat between me and my doctor, and ration care. If the democrats want me to believe differently, why don’t they demonstrat their ‘cost cutting’ on the current budget? Oh, that’s right, they spent record amounts.
AnotherOpinion on August 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Brooks is a useless idiot.
Star20 on August 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM
McCain, Snowe, Collins, Graham and all the other RINOs prove that anybody can claim to be a conservative. The record tells the real story.
highhopes on August 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM
You have to really really REALLY work at it to be this detached from reality. David Brooks needs to take a little vacation outside the beltway and get reacquainted with the country he purports to live in.
At least he seems to admit that the opposition is more than just superficial and limited to “The Crazies” – whoever they are – but to say that it’s all just a tactical error on the part of the “Best and Brightest” in D.C. is just jaw-dropping stupid!
Lew on August 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM
I hope Rush has a lengthy, in-depth interview with Goldberg tomorrow about Liberal Fascism.
FloatingRock on August 9, 2009 at 10:01 PM
What is wrong with Brooks (and Frum, for that matter)? Is he just justifying his “endorsement” of Obama or is this a tactic for attracting attention?
Skipper50 on August 9, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Oh, yeah… Goldberg… another crazy /s
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Isn’t the guy who bank rolls all things progressive in fact the same guy who helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews?
You say Hitler, we say Soros..
Hitler/Soros
Hitler/Soros
RobertInLexington on August 9, 2009 at 10:01 PM
That makes me laugh, wedgie by a lawn gnome. Too funny!
gina4 on August 9, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Gotta love the Media . They interview the likes of Brooks, Parker, and Gergen and pretend they speak for conservatives.
I know …there is no liberal bias./s
CWforFreedom on August 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM
What makes Brookes an ardent conservative?
Seriously?
What issues make him a conservative?
Hmmm…
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM
HA!
RobertInLexington on August 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM
He lost me in the beginning when he said, in reference to the tough issue being dealt with on a bipartisan basis, “the Obama adminsitration for better or worse, decided not to do that.”
Equivocating A-hole. For better or worse. It makes me ill.
keebs on August 9, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Why isn’t Brooks the Whitehouse Press guy? He does a better job selling Obama than Gibbs does?
David Brooks has been a sell out for a long time.
Remember his “Obama is a mountain” Bullsh!t?
If there ever was a token “conservative”, he is it.
portlandon on August 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM
I’m with you on this one – does saying “I’m a conservative” simply make you a credible one? By that logic, I’m a major league outfielder.
massrighty on August 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM
And once again David Brooks whores himself out as a useful idiot for the left leaning activist media. I hope he chokes on a Canapé at the next Georgetown cocktail party he attends.
Hellrider on August 9, 2009 at 10:05 PM
at least the left should concede that we have the biggest tent, after all if brooks and rush are BOTH conservatives, wtf is a liberal?
weewilly on August 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM
It is a very short leap from calling Bush Hitler to calling conservatives Nazi’s, and the Dems have already taken that leap so very willingly.
They are talking about prosecuting Bush for war crimes and CIA agents for interrogation methods. It is a very short leap from there to persecuting conservative dissenters for expressing their views. If you oppose cap-n-trade, you are commiting treason against humanity. If you oppose government healthcare, you are a nazi mobster.
When San Francisco protesters were marching around naked to protest the Iraq war, Bush just shrugged and said ‘isn’t it nice that we have free speech.” Compare that to the reaction to protest by Obama and Pelosi!
bitsy on August 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I’M BATMAN!
thomasaur on August 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM
LOL. I hate David Gregory with a hate that burns hot and Red. I loved when Tony Snow became Bush’s Press Sec. because he used to shut Davy boy down quick, and it used to piss him off.
I am sure somewhere, Tony Snow and Tim Russert are looking down and saying “What a dumass” & hope for Gregory’s ruination.
portlandon on August 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM
And I’m not suggesting that we should go around giving VIP passes to the “real conservatives.”
All I’d say is that the Conservative Movement should have no problem distancing themselves from the Statists that happen to agree with conservatives on 1 or 2 issues.
I believe Brookes was Pro-Iraq War… So was Lieberman, and Lieberman is no conservative, even if he is a decent guy.
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM
You win!
massrighty on August 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM
BINGO! +errrrrr!
bitsy on August 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM
In regards to the plan to buy several jets for congress.
I think the tea partiers and health care protests are having an effect.
CWforFreedom on August 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM
It is pretty sad that we have to see Parker, Brooks, Noonin, Scarborough and their ilk constantly paraded on our TV screens and in print as the conservative thought in America. Is it any wonder that those of us who really are conservative appear to be far right???
KickandSwimMom on August 9, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Actually I’d rather be a MLB second baseman.
thomasaur on August 9, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Limbaugh is “insane,” the protesters are “crazies,” and Obama is “eloquent.” How is Brooks the NYT conservative columnist again?
Johnson on August 9, 2009 at 10:10 PM
“When San Francisco protesters were marching around naked to protest the Iraq war, Bush just shrugged and said ‘isn’t it nice that we have free speech.” Compare that to the reaction to protest by Obama and Pelosi!”
the last two weeks beautifully encapsulated in 2 sentences …
Buckaroo on August 9, 2009 at 10:11 PM
They are stupid. And HATEFUL. Truly. The whole “Rules for Radicals” and personally demonizing and destroying your opponent as they do is hateful.
Neo-Marxists have been following this old playbook for decades and it seems we are just now seeing that it is ineffective on us an easy game that two can play. It no longer has the self-censoring effect they want. If anything their hateful names are a joke against us while our use of the word Nazi and Marxist are accurate. That’s what they can’t stand. We are correct and they know it. Like light shown on a cockroach, they want to run and scatter but can’t.
Liberals and their Neo-Marxist counterparts are weak bullies. They have created this fake aura of intelligence when really they are some of the stupidest people and most shallow thinkers I have ever met. The whole “elite” aura they try to create is such a joke.
Look, the liberal have one playbook that is 40 years old. It’s not working any more and they have no other alternative. A liberal will always lose an argument with a conservative because Liberals argue from guilt, low self esteem, emotion and torture the facts to try and fit their agenda. They will lie as a means to an end.
Their power and veneer is falling away. They have declared war on the American people and they are in for an ass kicking.
enoughalready on August 9, 2009 at 10:11 PM
…And yet anti-Semites that own kiddy p0rn, shoot up Holocaust Memorials, and hate Fox News are considered Far Right too…
Does this make Rush a centrist Republican?
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Why not?
His Punditry makes the other Pundits at the NYT feel comfortable.
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 10:12 PM
He wrote Bobos in Paradise which I figure explains why liberals seem more like sleeper cells in the suburbs these days, ready to “urbanize” the troglodyte suburbanites with their grand planning schemes and walkable designs. And it probably explains why so many “red” counties turn “blue” so quickly these days. They don’t have to guts to stay back in the urban core they’ve ruined with their policies and “compassion”.
StevefromMKE on August 9, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Blinky Brooks is obviously a tool being used by the NYT to give the illusion he speaks for “conservatives” in yet another pathetic and failed attempt to isolate Rush Limbaugh and make him look like an extremist. Nice try, dolts. Rush’s audience nearly doubled during the last attempt to isolate him. You think tools like Blinky will negatively impact Rush? Think again.
OneVision on August 9, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Ahhh, Brooks, the Pocket Conservative, the Useful Idiot. Kept around to dutifully bash true conservatives and make liberals look more reasonable, since they can say, “Even conservatives agree.”
Rush makes a valid point: that comparing townhall participants to Nazis is outrageous, because Nancy Pelosi would be closer to the position of Nazis than they are. And Brooks obediently calls Rush insane.
Does it bother Brooks that a high-school-educated radio talk show host is a sharper political commentator than he is?
I’m betting he doesn’t even realize it.
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on August 9, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Well,well,well Brooks is mentioning the polls,and with
the same breath ClintonCare,interesting!
So,in the last month,the Lefty terminology has increased,
theres,Birthers,and now,we have the ‘CRAZIES’!!!!!!!!
canopfor on August 9, 2009 at 10:13 PM
crazies = “people who don’t agree with me”
29Victor on August 9, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Again…why do we give a shite about what David Brooks says/thinks??
tickleddragon on August 9, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Pro-abortion.
Gun-control.
High taxes.
Gov’t ties to business.
Am I talking about Hitler or the libs?
Yes.
jgapinoy on August 9, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Maha Rushdie is going to dismantle this tool and then Mr. Limbaugh he can move onto the topic of the Death Panel and give the 3 hours of intense air it deserves.
Geochelone on August 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Coming soon!
Healthers
Immigrationists
Vacciners
etc….
….it’s a very simplistic strategy for a very simplistic base…
Ozprey on August 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM
The only reason the left hates being compared to Hitler is because to them the only thing that was wrong about Hitler is that he killed millions of Jews… oh, and that wasn’t initially so inconvenient to them…
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Maybe this info will set them back a little:
I don’t know if this has been posted, but Redstate.com has a thread up “Let’s Talk Astroturf” Activism for money, seems like there are hundreds of ads for people to be paid
to support Obamacare! Screenshots, etc. Busted!!
bluefox on August 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
bluefox on August 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM
My four-year-old daughter is tougher AND smarter than Brooks, and she knows socialism is just plain wrong.
Laura in Maryland on August 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM
David, David, David, you obviously have not read pertinent sections of the bills under discussion, much less the whole bills.
Call me crazy, but my reading comprehendion must be better than yours, David Brooks. Aren’t you embarrassed to demonstrate your limitations on television?
onlineanalyst on August 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I’m not sure the base knows how to spell imigr8.
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM
David Brooks doesn’t appear to have the faintest idea as to what is driving costs. What is driving cost, in large part, is the fact that advanced technology is very expensive and is used much more expansively that it has in the past. Shockingly, someone has to pay for the availability and use of diagnostic technology.
Years ago if you went into the ER with a headache you would more than likely be given a shot and sent home after a fairly limited work up. Now, you’re going to receive a $1,000 brain cat scan to rule out the outside chance a patient has a bleed or a growth.
Years ago to rule out a kidney stone you’d receive a $200 IVP, now you get a $1,500 CAT scan of your abdomen and pelvis. Is the patient receiving better diagnostic care? You bet! But who is going to pay for the scans……ultimately consumers.
Of course insurance premiums are going to skyrocket under such a scenario. What Obama-care is proposing is 1980 level insurance premiums but deliver 2009 medical technologies. There is absolutely NO way to square this circle without cramming down costs artificially.
A better question might be, why has MSNLSD’s parent company, GE, continuously raised the prices of their medical equipment & technologies. After all, a GE CAT Scan machine is the most popular and widely used scanner in the US and it costs so much…..Why doesn’t GE offer its 64 slice CT scanner (something not available in the 1980s) at 1980′s prices?
If skyrocketing prices is all it takes to convict a company of price gouging then GE must be guilty. No?
R Square on August 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM
+1.
That’s for remembering the dinner incident with Senator Touchy Feelie. Heh.
Terrie on August 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
That is the funny thing.
They don’t need no stinkin pub votes
CWforFreedom on August 9, 2009
Except for political cover during the next election cycle and to put paper-thin meat on the bones of “bipartisanship”.
SKYFOX on August 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
But the parodist was in California, preparing to meet another famously conservative thinker, Milton Friedman, AM’33, in a local public-television debate, taking a socialist position against the free-market economist. As Brooks recalled in the New York Observer, “The show was essentially me making a point, and he making a two-sentence rebuttal which totally devastated my point, and then me sitting there with my mouth hanging open, trying to think what to say. That didn’t immediately turn me into a conservative, but….”
Upstater85 on August 9, 2009 at 10:24 PM
I forgot anti-Semitic. (thanks Upstater85)
jgapinoy on August 9, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Well clearly, Rushbo, when you held the mirror up in front of them they just could not believe that they were that ugly.
Luka on August 9, 2009 at 10:25 PM
I think that Brooks realizes now that Obama is going not going to pull up on the stick – he’s going to fly this plane right into the deck.
And here we have Brooks making his first attempt to jump out of the plane.
But … I don’t think he has a shoot.
I don’t think his landing on Conservative ground will be a smooth one.
Can you say … “Pancake”?
Let’s make him grovel to Sarah Palin before we accept him back into the Kool Kid’s Klub!
HondaV65 on August 9, 2009 at 10:25 PM
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