Here is the title of Mr. Davis Brooks op-ed column in today's New York Times:
The Virtue of Radical Honesty
Here is Mr. Davis Brooks standing in the pulpit of the Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel in Elmhurst, Illinois on October 1st, 2010 lying point-blank about his body of published work in support of George W. Bush's war in Iraq.
I could have picked any of dozens of Conservative falsehoods and fairy tales Mr. Brooks has used his extraordinarily privileged real estate in The New York Times to promote, but this particular example is the only case I know of where an actual human being stood up, violated the most sacred Beltway commandment --
- and asked him in-person to justify things he had written. Things which were patently shitty, vicious and untrue.
His long, rambling response was many things, but "radically honest" was not one of them
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Yeah, but other than THOSE, are there any examples?
Jesus tapdancing Christ.
And this man never fails to preach or at least insinuate his high morality.
Not sure how far over the line of "Honest" Radical honesty travels.
But if it was like the javelin toss.
Brooks isn't going to make it to the moderately earnest distance let alone the little white lie , short of the beginning of the measuring line.
Or in more plain words for his supporting readers to understand.
He lies. Not just weekly column to column. Too often paragraph to paragraph that contridicts.
Any honesty at all would be a radical departure for DFB.
-Doug in Oakland
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