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David Brooks Blasts Media Coverage of Tucson Shooting

02 min 49 sec

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New York Times columnist David Brooks critiques how the press covered the shooting of Arizona Senator Gabrielle Giffords. He argues that the media politicized the issue, shifting focus away from the shooter's apparent mental illness.

"Journalism has been guilty of a great wrong," says Brooks. "Those who accused political players of contributing without any evidence made extremely grave accusations without any sense of responsibility."
The End of 'No Drama Obama'? David Brooks on Obama 2.0

03 min 38 sec

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New York Times columnist David Brooks explores how President Obama's personality has changed over his two years in office. He comments on changes in Obama's "niceness" and self-confidence, arguing that these changes have allowed Obama to become a more effective leader.
David Brooks: What Comes After the Tea Party?

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New York Times columnist David Brooks comments on the role that voter anger played in the past two elections. He suggests that America is suffering through an extended period of national pessimism, and the desire for change that fueled both the Obama campaign and the Tea Party may give way to yet another powerful political movement: one focused on preventing the U.S. from "marching off a cliff fiscally."
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francothai

Posted: 01.16.11, 02:58 AM

David Brooks' argument relies on a fallacy of 2 orders: 1) Because the causes leading to 1 event cannot be proven, it does not allow anyone to reject the causality as plausible. 2) This 1 specific event belongs to a pattern of violent crimes committed against democrats or figures symbolizing the government's authority (policemen) driven by right-wing claims and ideology. The causality of single events cannot be for sure. But the causality of the pattern cannot be questioned. ...and journalists have pointed out the causality of the pattern. Not the causality of the single event. The terribly stunning thing is that Gifford herself mentioned the subject just a handful of hours before being shot. She said : "we're on Sarah Palin's targeted list but the thing is, the way she has it depicted has the crosshair of a gun sight on our district. And when people do that, you've gotta realize there are consequences to that action."

regi naomi

Posted: 01.15.11, 04:14 PM

Conservatives need to get off their high horse. Let's say a homicide detective is sent to investigate a murder. Wouldn't that detective first suspect the individuals who had been making threats against the victim? Of course he would, but if evidence showed that the threat makers weren't guilty, then he would look elsewhere for other suspects. Before we knew about Loughner's insanity, it was perfectly reasonable to suspect that Loughner had been driven to killing Giffords by heated right-wing rhetoric.

theknopfknows

Posted: 01.15.11, 10:56 AM

Obviously born in Toronto where I went to School, for a Canadian that converted to American should tell you something, I´m also Jewish, educated Temple Emmanuel, St. Clair. Typical Canadian sense of Humor. Brooks is out of his league you need neuroscience, understanding poor impulse control and more important, the collective consciousness. All 22 year old kids who think about killing like thousands of 22 year old Soldiers Killing in 4 different countries, killing is their training this seeps through collective consciousness, into the social fabric and weavers a murder. It is not Gun control it is the society that makes money profit before people. When public figures, Pete King, senator, huckbee Minister, O´reilly Fox all and many screaming 3 weeks ago, FOR THE DEATH OF JULIAN Assange, yes publicly asking for his execution, Murder on TV, Play games, videos, radio, violence is IN THE AIR, ON AIR and on the minds of many people. At the airports Body naked scanners excite cancer, that is violence, enhanced pat-downs, squeeze, rub, tug, and violate brings anger much anger, travelling high season more travellers more anger is this not violence, from Nazi-homeland security. Anger everywhere sex violence everywhere, builds up a POP, there goes a nine year old killed by the same 22 year old killing over seas, what you do to others you do to yourself, what goes around comes around. Brooks uses other peoples jokes strictly administration, so far not so good you have to be an Born American not born under gun control Canada, to make a truthful profound statement about a American time frame Brooks sounds like a Canadian, it is obvious to me, Canada is the great observer not one involved, 30 million people, Canada, next to 308,764,000 USA, this Canadian is saying nothing new He forgets you can not get unity with violence, unity through violence like Hitler is temporary Tunisia good example. Hopeful positive crap instead of brutal honesty. America is baseball always sacrificing. Humble my ass, Fire bomb of Tokyo, killed 984,000 people, Hiroshima 120,000 dead, Nagasaki, 70,000 dead yes humble! Brooks the Canadian kissing butt.Americas romancing violence to gain property and power has never changed or rested since the American Indian Massacres. South Mexico strict gun laws NO GUNS, highest murder rate in the world, folks can not defend themselves victim mentality is now. Switzerland better example every home a gun to protect. Those who have no guns, are at the mercy of those who have, including corrupt gov´t with a collective consciousness, to murder Julian Assange, american killing creeps thanks foratv,

jamestiberias

Posted: 01.15.11, 07:39 AM

So David Brooks is qualified to assess mental illness? It's not clear to me that anyone is in "control of their thoughts". How exactly would you control your own thoughts?

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