David Brooks Is In 'The One Percent'
Monday's "Reliable Source" gossip column in The Washington Post reports under the headline "Surreal Estate" that New York Times columnist (and official PBS and NPR "conservative" pundit) David Brooks is rolling in dough. He's bought a home in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington for $3.95 million.
"The New York Times op-ed columnist and wife Sarah are trading up — from their longtime home near Bethesda’s Burning Tree Club to a century-old (exquisitely renovated) five bedroom, four-and-a-half bath house in Cleveland Park," they wrote. "It includes a two-car garage, iron and stone fence, generous-sized porch and balcony, and what appear to be vast spaces for entertaining. The timing seems to have been right: After only a few days on the market, their old place (which also boasts five bedrooms) is under contract for $1.6 million."
Brooks outraged Occupy types last October in a column attacking the "99 percent" concept:
A group that divides the world between the pure 99 percent and the evil 1 percent will have nothing to say about education reform, Medicare reform, tax reform, wage stagnation or polarization. They will have nothing to say about the way Americans have overconsumed and overborrowed. These are problems that implicate a much broader swath of society than the top 1 percent.
He called them the "milquetoast radicals," weirdly insisting that centrists made better radicals:
The Occupy Wall Street movement may look radical, but its members’ ideas are less radical than those you might hear at your average Rotary Club. Its members may hate capitalism. A third believe the U.S. is no better than Al Qaeda, according to a New York magazine survey, but since the left no longer believes in the nationalization of industry, these “radicals” really have no systemic reforms to fall back on.
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Dullness sells?
Submitted by P. Aaron on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 8:00am.
Or, does it have something to do with the quality of the crease of one's pants?
Hey Tim...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 8:22am.
Brooks would most likely defend his wealth by pointing to Romney... Brooks doesn't have a car elevator. Yet. But he loves the idea!
Brooks is 1/32 conservative. You can tell by his glasses.
1/32 conservative equals 99.96875 LIBERAL!
..."the left no longer believes in the nationalization of industry..."? That's funny.
Has Maxine changed her
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 8:28am.
Has Maxine changed her mind?
Might want to check on that, David.
Car elevator...
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 9:52am.
I had not yet commented on that idiotic flap about Romney's car elevator, but I will now. Unless he's actually got a true elevator, which allows his car to get off on another floor, I think what the hubbub is about is what many people of limited real estate do when they have a classic or show car do, which is to get a lift that allows you to put your Corvette, or in my sister's case, a 1931 Chevrolet pickup that was restored by my late father, above your daily driver. It requires a high ceiling in your garage, but the lift (a.k.a. "elevator") raises it high enough so can store more cars than the floor space will allow. It's not much more than a glorified mechanic's lift. It's only a few thousand dollars. My sister's not wealthy, but it was a hell of a lot cheaper than adding on another garage bay.
Stoopid controversy...
I know Whois...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:11am.
$2500.00 here to get a tractor off the floor.
I was simply stating that Brooks is a hypocrite.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Mitten exercizing capitalism. There is a problem with faux conservatives like Brooks demonizing it. Therein lies your stoopid controversy.
Since when does the left no longer believe in
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 8:29am.
nationalization of industry? They certainly believe in nationalizing -at least in part, the auto industry. They also would prefer to nationalize the health care industry. And they have begun the process -to considerable failure- to nationalize the energy industry; at least to the point that they would like to eliminate the private sector element of it and prop up and fully control the alternative energy industry.
But I guess it's relatively easy to see things through rose-colored lenses from inside a DC area mansion.
EXACTLY, BK!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 9:59am.
I was climbing down the thread with the same quote. Great minds must think alike.
Bambi has nationalized GM and Chrysler; owns the SEIU Communist Union Party; owns GE and Emmelt; has started on the Health Care Industry and the insurance industry; has started to plug his "boys" into the high levels of the chain of command of the military; and he's made a pretty good start at destroying all of the known sources of energy that actually work!
Looks like a great start to me if you want to be a banana republic dictator.
If you like that, just wait until after the election. If he loses, he still has over two months to wreck the country. If he wins, kiss this country goodbye.
I heard that he joked at the correspondents dinner that for all the people who said that he had a secret plan to take over the country after the election, he whispered, "It's true!" and then everyone had a great laugh, including Da Rock Star.
Amazing how he has been telling us from the beginning what he was going to do, and continues to do so, and we just don't listen.
Yes, Tim, but it's OK....
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 8:32am.
Brooks is in the "good" part of the one percent.
He's a "journalist" not a Big Oil guy or other corporate demon.
Lipstick?
Submitted by Texndoc on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 8:41am.
Every photo, when I do manage to sit through 30 seconds of him, he always looks like he's wearing your daughter's play lip gloss. Bubblegum or Passion Pink.
OWS Dreams of the Day
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 8:50am.
OWS dreams of the day when there won't be a one percent. I dream of the day when we restore the teaching of basic math at the grade school level.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Tim, you overlook an important point.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:05am.
The "smart, intellectually elite, politically astute, intelligentsia" like Brooks DESERVE more than the rest of us poor dumb slobs who are clueless about how the world really should work!
They are the smart one, the beautiful ones, and they know what is best for us, so naturally they are on a higher plane, and should get a larger slice of the pie.
We jus' be stoopid!
The things that David Brooks
Submitted by John21 on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:06am.
The things that David Brooks are in is ass-tounding:
1%er
Solid gold drool cup club
Original Member of the Obama Labotomy club
Kool-ad drinking champion 3 years running
Only member of his Journalism class to graduate without the capablility of reading
The man is truely amazing with his lack of talent to earn such high praise
I guess David has become a Bo-Bo
Submitted by needle on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:35am.
I guess David has become a Bo-Bo
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.