Bobo gets Rocked

Mark Shields handed David Brooks head on a platter on PBS Friday night. I was waiting for the water works to start.

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David used the new talking point now know as the Silberman-Robb commission.

Atrios has more: It's never just been the right wing media, it's long been the mainstream media providing a microphone for these dishonest hacks. It's never just been the right wing media, it's long been the mainstream media providing a microphone for these dishonest hacks.

Josh is starting a list of all the bobble heads that jump aboard the new Ken Mehlman action figure talking point.

On News Hour, David Brooks railed President Bush over his lack of a response to the disaster known as "Katrina." DriftGlass has all of David's tirades on Jim Lehrer's show and believe me, they'll make your head spin in a "Linda Blair" sort of way.

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Brooks: ...but to reiterate the point I made earlier, which is this is the anti-9/11.

Just in terms of public confidence. When 9/11 happened, Giuliani, was right there. And just as a public presence, he was forceful. No public presence like that now.

So you had a surge of strength; people felt good about the country even though we’d been hit on 9/11. Now we’ve been hit again in a different way (and) people feel lousy. People feel ashamed. And in part that it because of the public presentation. In part that is because of the failure of Bush to understand immediately the shame people felt.

Sitting up there on the airplane and looking out the window? That was terrible!

And the three days of doing nothing, really, on Bush was terrible.

Even today, I found myself -- and as you know, I support his policies quite often – (but I) look at him today, and earlier in the program...this is how Mark Shields must feel looking at them. I’m angry at the guy, and maybe it’ll pass for me, but a lot of people, and a lot of Republicans, uh, are furious right now.

Driftglass has a great post on Brooks and he sent me the transcript. TPMCafe has more on Brooks...
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Moral logic of common sacrifice

Mark Shields : " That those who called most loudly for this war are not standing in line to volunteer at the recruiting offices is noted by the nation's premier military sociologist (and ex-Army draftee) Charles Moskos.

Only when the privileged classes perform military service, only when elite youth are on the firing line, does the country define the cause as worth young peoples' blood and do war losses become acceptable," observes Moskos, adding that "the answer to what constitutes vital national interests is found not so much on the cause, itself, but in who is willing to die for that cause." We act as a nation when, as a people, we truly share the obligations and the perils of our common security...read on

Novak compares filibusters to Nazi death camps

I found this comment on Kos, by Box 13. (I hadn't had a chance to view the show yet)

"On The Captital Gang Saturday Bob Novak made the following statement:

HUNT: Bob, why would Senator Frist refuse an offer to break the deadlock?

I wonder how the Anti-Defamation League will feel about this."

After Mark Shields smacked him down with truth , Novak took the Lords name in vain, an obvious sin in Novak's passioned Catholicism.

SHIELDS: ...We are changing that now and forever, and don't you ever forget it, because it'll be 51, and they'll be ideological and it's going to be a change in the American judiciary permanently.

NOVAK: Oh, Christ!

Just another example of a religious zealot spewing lies to justify their means. I wonder how many times he goes to confession a week? I like the way he substitutes the "nuclear option" with the words"constitutional option."