ON BABBLING BROOKS

    There would be no sense in establishing a “Friend or
Faux Award” until next year, since this year’s has been won before it
could be contested, and that’s because there’s no faux like a nuanced
faux and, with apologies to James Bond’s “The Spy Who Loved Me”, no one
nuance’s it better than David Brooks of the NY Times.  In each of
the next few weeks, we’ll bring you, dear readers, such an example, of
months, sometimes years of Mr. Brooks’ complete sentences in lieu of
complete truths, and then the heartfelt disclaimer of 3 to sometimes as
many as 7 seconds, in duration or even, get this, a part of a sentence.

    One such faux for the ages took place several months
ago on “Meet The Press” during a discussion of the great numbers of
Iraqi’s who have decided that rather than greet us as liberators,
they’ll leave Iraq as emigrators, preferring to live in a refugee camp,
in tents, rather than under our version of non-civil war.  Brooks
allowed that “these people (now over 2,000,000) are not leaving Iraq
because they’re reading the NY Times” (you think), conceding that this
is no (left wing) media creation.  And then Brooks continued, sooo
quickly . . . and sooo quietly . . . that he had bought into that (and
wrote it as well) for some time, and in an instant, the discussion of
so many, many arguments which led but mislead was dismissed and he went
forth to babble-on, in the mid-east, among other places.  More to
follow, from David Brooks, and us.