Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Brooks on fire

The first thing I read this morning was this fantastic analysis from David Brooks.

When the New York Times hired Brooks to replace William Safire, nobody was very happy about it. The liberals stalwarts saw no reason to hire a successor to the outgoing house conservative, and conservatives perceived Brooks as a kind of milquetoast Republican only a step or two above David Gergen. Despite the poor initial reception he received, he has really done some tremendous work for that paper.

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