Speaking of David Brooks
This video from
crooksandliars.com, showing Brooks and liberal Mark Shields on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, is devastating to Brooks.
First Brooks insist that most Democrats secretly hate the Netroots. "In my conversations...I find privately most of the Democrats despise those people." (Because, of course, David Brooks has his finger on the pulse on what Democrats are thinking.) They really want to support Lieberman, but they're afraid of the backlash from these rabid anti-war activists.
But Shields then deftly makes the point that Lieberman himself got into politics as an anti-war activist—didn't know that, did you, David Brooks—and then adds that it's one thing to support the war, as Lieberman has done, but what really pisses off other Dems is that Lieberman has openly criticized other Dems who have criticized Bush. Aiding and abetting the president, as it were.
It's well worth watching....
