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New York Times columnist David Brooks knows there is a contingent of readers that vehemently hates him, so he just doesn't read their comments.
"I used to read them, but it was just too psychologically damaging," Brooks told Yahoo News' Katie Couric during an interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Tuesday. "So then I would ask my assistant to read them."
The columnist said he was surprised by readers' reception when he first joined the Times in 2003. He told Couric that he'd "never been hated on a mass scale before" and estimated he received close to 300,000 emails during his first six months on the job.
"The core message was, 'Paul Krugman is great; you suck,'" he said.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-brooks-hate-mail-paul-krugman
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)He is truly the Mitt Romney of the clueless conservative pundit class.
Orrex
(63,215 posts)Crowquette
(88 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)I feared I was too subtle.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)He's so good at it.
librechik
(30,674 posts)look him up in the encyclopedia under the word "tool."
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)what a lump of self pitying mush brooks is! he seems to have zero self awareness. krugman never whines when he gets shit thrown at him by his inferiors. of course, he DID win the Nobel and when did you get your Nobel, David?
Enrique
(27,461 posts)is he so delusional that he doesn't know he sucks?
The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)I am under an ethical and sentimental obligation to say or type those words any time Brooks' name comes up.
And maybe he's starting to get the message...
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)JVS
(61,935 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Oh. And Brooks is a Moonie.
http://www.apj.us/20060508Scoobie.html
surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)... it wouldn't change the second half of that equation.