Thanks for stopping by 5th. I have to agree with you, going after Brooks is like shooting fish in a barrel but he happened to pick a favorite subject of mine, the absurd notion that it’s the liberals who are responsible for this country’s decline when it is so obviously the opposite.

Looking forward to more of your comments.

Brooks is one of those ‘opinionators’ that never fails to flummox me. In my time I’ve happily deconstructed Kristol, Krauthammer, Blankely, the typical Pentagon spokesperson, even Cavuto (in fact I won a mug from World O’Crap for writing in the Cavuto style so convincingly it was initially assumed I;d plagiarized my effort) and god help us, John Gibson. But it takes a fortitude I simply do not possess to conduct complete autopsies on Brook’s literary carcasses.

Brooks is surely my age, in hi late 40’s, but he still speaks and writes like a first year university student who has skimmed a couple of texts on poli-sci and suddenly inspired at its variety and complexity believes that mere exposure to the subject and enthusiastic talk combined with cursory research of ’supporting’ material gives him expertise by sheer osmosis–and he’s still like that in middle age; no wiser, no more studied and no more expert or aware.

So well done on this post.

I appreciate the discourse that ‘long-form’ blogging permits and I’ve bookmarked this site.

Cheers