CJR's Russert Watch column asks a question:
Speaking of David Brooks, is America a great country or what that a boy can grow up to be the indispensable go-to guy for the country’s most serious newspaper, television, and radio show all in the same week? Is it a sign of his acumen vis-à-vis the most important government decision of the Bush administration that he has so conspicuously, as they used to say in Hollywood, failed upward? Is it a sign of the conservative implosion that no other right-minded pundit is available at The New York Times, Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour, and All Things Considered but the selfsame David Brooks—a very smart fellow who somehow missed the central story about the crowd that’s been running the White House for years?
I've been asking myself that for quite a while.
The central story is, paraphrasing Brooks on All Things Considered last Friday, that "the White House is full of dim bulbs and that, by his estimation, only twenty percent of the staff there are up to the job."
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