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To: roto who wrote (117357)	7/22/2012 11:31:49 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Oh, I don't mean to rag on him. It is just what I see straight up. Maybe I am full of shit. I compare Brooks to Paul Krugman, Chris hays, and Noam Chomsky. I am more interested in the lack of a coherent philosophy on the right. The MSM keeps giving us that false equivalency bit. I try hard not to be a cheerleader for the left, but for 30/40 years the left has been vilified by the right and gotten away with it. It has been very seldom the left's philosophy gets put forth in its full context, until recently by MSNBC staff, like Ezra Klein, Chris Hays, Alex Wagner and Rachel Maddow who are starting to break ground for the liberal philosophy. A hard review of history over the last century shows the liberals have the ideas and virtually always lead the way into the future, from giving the women the right to vote and equal rights act, to the New Deal, to ending segregation and today gay marriage and defending against the right wings war on women and denial of AGW. The conservative ideas are put forth as the foundation to reacted to , or at least seen as valid, like tax cuts, but are mostly nuts, or self serving to the rich and right wing. So one has to ask what exactly is Brooks, or Buckly for that matter, talking about?