The "incomparable" Daily Howler (Bob Somerby) makes consistently great reading. Even when I don't entirely agree with him, as in his comments on the reviews of The Passion.
He's been very good at tracking the sad deterioration of David Brooks from staunchly conservative but widely respected commentator to an increasingly sad case of Republican hackery. This happened after he got his current twice-weekly New York Times gig.
Somerby takes Brooks to task today because he uses this silly Republican epithet that Kerry is too "French." He asks something very relevant:
At any rate, we offer a question for our effete Mr. Brooks: Just how “French” did Kerry seem when he was pulling men from the Mekong Delta? Go ahead, David! Let us all know! How “French” did Kerry seem back then? Of course, we know that Brooks cuts-and-pastes from “the original”—from the pleasing scripts of Karl Rove. So we’ll give him time to ask his master: How “French” did John Kerry seem then?
Somerby promises us that he will be howling later this week at the press corps' response to Kerry's comment about Republican lying. (Kerry: "We’re going to keep pounding, let me tell you. We’re just beginning to fight here. These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group of people I’ve ever seen. ") He begins the process today by observing:
Yes, Kerry was direct and insulting this day. Indeed, some irate pundits quickly suggested that Kerry should even say, Pardon my French. But the next day, the Boston Fog Machine [Brooks' label for Kerry] didn’t take his words back, for reasons that strike us as fairly clear. But Brooks was hardly the only scribe who seemed kerflubbled by Kerry’s crisp comment. In fact, leading pundits were quite perplexed when Kerry called his foes Big Liars. How did pundits respond to this comment? We’ll emit those mordant chuckles all week as we look at what pundits have said.
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