Spanking David Brooks
4th March 2011
Brooks’ constant, unsubstantiated and strangely vague attacks on conservatives as a group – in which he claimed membership, until quite recently – put me in mind of something George MacDonald Fraser has his protagonist say in one of the Flashman novels: “I’m not a sabre expert…and if I have to use one I’d rather it wasn’t in single combat, but in a melee, where you can hang about on the outskirts, roaring your heart out and waiting for an opponent with his back turned.”
I don’t like David Brooks much.