This week’s Mainstream Media Scream of Big Media’s lefty tilt features David Brooks, the “conservative” on the New York Times editorial staff, cheering President Obama’s harsh words at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Appearing on Sunday’s NBC “Meet the Press,” he endorsed these words from Obama:
“Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. … In our home country, slavery, and Jim Crow, all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”
“Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd asked his panel: “Is our political discourse, are we too immature to have this debate?”
Said Brooks, “Well, I’m pro-Obama. I’m totally pro-Obama on this. I think he said the right thing. Listen, it was a gospel of humility. What sorts of people need a little gospel of humility? People in Washington, pundits, religious believers, I happen to be all three of those things. And so we’re told to, we’re told to walk humbly in the path of the lord, the lord’s ways are mysterious and so you’re saying we’re prone to zealotry as Jon [Meacham] said we’re fallen. And so to underline that that’s useful in Washington today. That’s useful always.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: ” ‘I’m totally pro-Obama.’ And this is who the New York Times seriously purports to be its ‘conservative’ columnist? Maybe they could hire Ann Coulter to provide a liberal perspective. Obama’s timing is as if Winston Churchill responded to the Nazis by reminding the British of how their troops mistreated the natives in North America in the 1600s or put innocents on the rack in medieval times.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
