[lbo-talk] Brooks on Haiti

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 15 14:57:26 PST 2010


On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Chuck Grimes quoted David Brooks:


> It’s time to take that approach abroad, too. It’s time to find
> self-confident local leaders who will create No Excuses
> countercultures
> in places like Haiti, surrounding people — maybe just in a
> neighborhood
> or a school — with middle-class assumptions, an achievement ethos and
> tough, measurable demands....''

Brooks is usually just something of a chucklehead. Now's he ascended to the level of toxic prick.

Doug



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