David Brooks

Now that William Safire has succumbed, the only reasonable conservative worth listening to is David Brooks. Brooks takes on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly in his column today.

What I take away from Brooks’ column is that he thinks these “men” are merely entertainers creating the illusion of real political power while the Republican party pees its pants every time one of these shock-jocks takes a poke at the party.

He’s undoubtedly correct.

As for Beck, I’m trying to get through his book “Common Sense.” It’s a difficult book to read. It’s full of sentences in all-caps and exclamation points. When you can’t write very well, you have to use these tricks to create the feeling that you’re outraged. Beck should look up how to use active verbs and descriptive nouns, but I digress. What also makes it a hard book to read is that I’m also reading Hemingway, so when I have to choose which book to read, Beck tends to lose.

But kudos to Brooks for standing up against Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and O’Reilly. They all do a disservice to the political discourse in this nation and should not be given even the illusion of any real political power. They’re entertainers.

Glenn Beck’s Common Sense on Amazon
Al Franken’s Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot on Amazon
Bill O’Reilly books on Amazon
Sean Hannity’s book Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism on Amazon