Thursday, June 12, 2008

Nice Work if You Can Get It

By now you've more than likely already heard David Brooks pontificating about Obama's chances in the election and taking him to task for not fitting in at the Applebee's salad bar. And I'm sure you've also already heard that Applebee's does not now, nor did it ever, have a salad bar.

For anyone who ever reads David Brooks' work, this is not surprise. The man has built his entire career around pretending that liberals are elites while proving how embarrassingly elitist he is himself. I think you can actually hear irony slowly gasping for life as Mr. Brooks savagely beats it every time he writes. Brooks may be the most pristine example of media and conservative hubris, as he constantly undercuts and insults regular people in order to prove he has their best interests at heart.

But yet, here he continues to have a regular column in the New York Times, the nation's most prestigious newspaper. Think about it -- the guys constantly fucks up the one thing he is supposed to do, and is rewarded with more money and more respect. Take a second to think about how that would work in your day-to-day life. If you fucked up everything you did, constantly revealed yourself to be a complete idiot and incapable of even the most fundamental logic, would you still have a job? I know I wouldn't.

But then again, maybe I'm just so elitist I believe people should be required to "understand" things if they're are going to be seen as "credible," which I'm sure is something very foreign to the folksy columnist/television-pundit/millionaire. But when you're making nearly $12,000 a year like me, you lose touch with ordinary folks...

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