Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” while discussing politicians’ reactions to the Orlando, FL mass shooting terror attack, New York Times columnist David Brooks said President Barack Obama railing against using the term “Islamic terrorism” is exactly the kind of political concreteness that
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” while discussing presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton becoming the first major party female presidential nominee, New York Times columnist David Brooks said Hillary Clinton’s achievement didn’t compare to Obama in 2008. When asked if he
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” while discussing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) tepid endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, New York Times columnist David Brooks declared, “Donald Trump is the definition of downside.” Brooks said, “I think morally,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks praised President Obama’s “beautiful” speech in Hiroshima, Japan, and its “characteristically Obama-esque dose of realism.” Brooks said, “I thought it was a beautiful speech. It was realistic about human nature and our tendency
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks asked, “if David Duke was the Republican nominee, would you say the Supreme Court is all that matters? Would you support David Duke?” Brooks said, “Well, people are getting in line
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reacted to EgyptAir Flight 804 “in narcissistic fashion” and “chose the reality that was useful for him at that moment.” Earlier, Brooks said, “[D]oes
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Donald Trump becoming the presumptive GOP presidential nominee shows that some in the US “are longing for a return to a country” “where a certain sort of white male ideal was the top
If in the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is king, then columnist David Brooks of the New York Times is blind, deaf and dumb inside the Beltway.
Friday on PBS’ “NewsHour,” while comparing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s wins in last Tuesday’s primaries with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announcing Carly Fiorina as his choice for vice president, and his deal to target their resources in different states
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” while discussing Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s new campaign chief Paul Manafort telling members of the Republican National Committee that Trump will begin to put forward a more professional tone, New York Times columnist David Brooks
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “was perfectly willing to use the amoral bankruptcy laws to his own advantage. And now he’s just getting outfoxed in the amoral delegate laws” and that such laws
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that “Whatever else” Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “may be, unqualified, at least by any conventional measure, is not one of them” on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” Brooks said Democratic presidential
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will get the nomination and go down as” biggest loser in American politics.” Brooks said, “I think it’s likely Trump. I think
New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “just can’t behave in even a modicum of presidentality” and “can always be counted on to cruel to those who are weak” on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” Brooks said,
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has “a consistent misogynistic view of women” which is “the stuff of a diseased adolescent” and that “you get a sense of a man who received no love, can
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that criticisms of President Obama for staying at a baseball game in Cuba and continuing his trip to Argentina after the Brussels terror attack are “unfounded” and “political point-scoring” on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” Brooks
Former radio talk show host Steve Gill, an elected Cruz delegate, and State Senator Mae Beavers (R-Mt. Juliet), an elected Trump delegate, tell Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon that along with former State Rep Joe Carr, a Cruz delegate, they are inviting their 49 fellow Trump and Cruz delegates in Tennessee to meet later this month to fend off the GOP establishment’s efforts to “broker” the party’s convention and hand the nomination to someone other than Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz.
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is someone “a lot of Republicans, including myself,” find “morally repulsive” and “is the sort of demagogue our founders feared would upset the American experiment in self-government” on Friday’s
New York Times columnist David Brooks stated Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland is “an excellent choice” and is someone that should be confirmed by the Senate on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” Brooks said of Garland, “I think it’s an excellent choice.
New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Thursday’s GOP debate was a “more Rubio-style” and the GOP candidate and Florida Senator “did well, because it was a substantive debate. It was more uplifting” and Rubio was hurt by going “personally,
New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that there was “a lack of courage” in other candidates saying GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is “a scam artist and a con artist and a liar and reckless and would hurt the country,
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued Republicans “should consider” President Obama’s Supreme Court pick because “the Constitution says the president nominates” on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” Brooks said, [relevant remarks begin around 11:15] “Well, of course they should consider. I mean,
David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, argued that he thinks there is “a group of Republicans” who want “someone who won’t be wearing on a dinner party” like GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, and that if there is
David Brooks, one of two “resident conservatives” at the New York Times, has drawn all kinds of liberal attention to himself with a column this week headlined, “I Miss Barack Obama.”
New York Times columnist David Brooks said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s reaction to the results in the Iowa caucuses was “unnerving” and magnified “any doubts about his stability … with the nuclear trigger” on Friday’s PBS’s “NewsHour.” Brooks stated, “He’s magnifying,
New York Times columnist David Brooks joked that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “base of support is 67-year-old white male Republicans. Those guys love Megyn Kelly. So, he shouldn’t have gone after her” and that his legacy is the primary is
In the final days ahead of the Iowa Caucus, donor-class favorite Marco Rubio has noticeably changed his tone on the campaign trail, according to a recent report.
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” New York Times columnist David Brooks insisted that despite the commanding leads Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in polling in several key states and nationally, neither one of those two candidates will
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s newest ads are “extremely noxious” and “extremely anti-immigrant.” Brooks said Trump’s ads are “extremely noxious. They’re extremely anti-immigrant. And they attack [GOP presidential candidates Texas
New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he is “still hoping the establishment will get off their rear ends and actually do something, and act like an establishment and rally behind one candidate” on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” Brooks said the
After being dogged along the campaign trail by the characterization of being too boyish, donor-class favorite Marco Rubio is now trying his hand at “macho,” according a new report by the New York Times.
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” in his regular segment with syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks fretted over the prospect of Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) becoming the Republican Party’s 2016 nominee and warned if
Because Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz doesn’t properly crease his pants or favor the infanticide of partial-birth abortion, on the pages of The New York Times, columnist David Brooks (who identifies as a conservative) openly questions Cruz’s Christian faith, and
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz has “dark and satanic tones” and that fellow candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio is starting to adopt on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” Brooks said, “you begin to
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Barack Obama’s end-of-the-year press conference in which the president continued to say progress was being made in the fight against ISIS. Brooks said that claim was in
New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Muslim travel proposal has “done enormous damage to America’s reputation abroad” and is “bigotry of a naked sort” and “an offense against religious liberty” on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.”
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to last week’s San Bernardino, CA mass shooting in his regular segment with syndicated columnist Mark Shields. Brooks first took on the idea of gun control as a measure
New York Times columnist David Brooks described the competition between GOP presidential candidates Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Florida Senator Marco Rubio as “resentment vs. hope” on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” Brooks stated of a potential Cruz-Rubio match-up, “it’s resentment vs. hope. Cruz
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that while it’s “appalling” to pause admitting more Syrian and Iraqi refugees, “for him [President Obama] to wax self-righteously about other people, and their response to the Syrian refugee — he bears some responsibility
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Barack Obama’s decision announced earlier in the day that he does not support the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a pipeline that would link Canadian oil
