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David Brooks Has Got Teh Math

by: Dean Barker

Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 22:59:53 PM EST
David Brooks' number one "Top Surprise" about the New Hampshire Primary:
1. Republicans voted in nearly the same numbers as Democrats.

Yes, in David Brooks' world, when 50,000 more people vote for Democrats than for Republicans in a state with a tiny population that has been GOP-dominated for generations;  when 10,000 less Republicans vote in 2008 than in the last contested Republican primary;  and when the second place finisher for the Democrats gets 16,000 votes more than the first-place Republican finisher... he calls it a tie.

I know I shouldn't complain about all the nice attention we get up heaah every four years, but the sheer volume of absurdities issued by the floating island of DC elite pundits this time around is breathtaking.
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David Brooks Has Got Teh Math | 6 comments
I am so very sick of out-of-state talking heads trying to tell the other 49 states about New Hampshire (4.00 / 4)
As if they know.

Get a New Hampshirite!  We've got plenty that could hold their own with Wolf Blitzer.

In four years, I want to see Ray Buckley interviewed about New Hampshire's voting tendencies instead of some in-house politico who only comes to New Hampshire every four years.

It's not ignorance (4.00 / 2)
It's lying.

You don't need to know how to pronounce Coos to know that 287,000 is a lot bigger than 238,000.

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It's not just that. (4.00 / 3)
I heard someone on the news with a fake background of the Manchester skyline trying to tell people that the exit polls were wrong because New Hampshirites take it as an insult and don't like to tell people who they voted for.  That is complete BS.  I've never met a New Hampshire voter who didn't want to argue about why their choice is the best.

They think they understand New Hampshire voters.  Sorry, I don't think spending 1 or 2 in every 208 weeks here makes you an expert on how 1.3 million people think.

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Is there some secret meaning to "Teh" in the title? (0.00 / 0)
That asked, David Brooks appears on the News Hour with Mark Shields, if I'm not mistaken.  And it was one of them who made reference to an "insurgent" campaign in New Hampshire.  I was struck by the use of that word and its repetition in the same context the next day, because, of course, "insurgents" is what the Pentagon is hunting in Iraq.  So, I'm just wondering if the use of that term reflects an awakening that people being hunted down and killed in Iraq are just plain old Iraqis who don't like the American occupation, or is the use of the term a sign that political dissidents have become a domestic issue and that H.R. 1955 is not just an inadvertence.

In case you haven't heard, H.R. 1955 is the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007


Luckily, the Senate is dragging its feet on that bill. (0.00 / 0)
And I will not press play on Bill O'Reilly unless you give me a good reason.
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They're stupid, and proud of it. (4.00 / 1)
David Brooks, like so may other pundits (Chris Matthews, etc.), simply confuse stuff they make up (truthiness) with, well, reality. I'm convinced they suffer from some sort of fame-induced retardation. Maybe it's the entertainment makup. Maybe it's the studio lights. I don't know.

Take this, for example:
"Crying works. I have no data to back this up. But Hillary's human moment must have helped."

I suggest that Hillary's chocking up didn't affect the polls. Rather it was the relentlessly misogynistic cable news coverage of the incident that affected the polls. Whether it was Bill Kristol's "she's a cold, calculating, phoney bitch" comment (I'm paraphrasing) or others' comments about her being weak under pressure and needing to "man up" (again, I paraphrase) the coverage was unmistakably misogynistic. THIS is what affected voters. It was personal and, damnit, they weren't gonna take it.
 

Not as smart as I think I am, but not as dumb as I look.

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