NYT's Waste of Money

I have commented before on NYT's waste of money on columnists who don't know what they're talking about. This time Oliver Willis, Kagro X and Steve Benen all beat me to it. Here's video courtesy of Media Matters. I think Steve summed it up best for me:

Obama has spent a lot of time, Brooks says, in "university towns" -- meaning that he's one of those guys interested in book learnin'. Can't have someone like that in the Oval Office. No siree.

As for the focus group that apparently hadn't heard much from the media other than news about Jeremiah Wright, this might be a clue to Brooks and his colleagues that the coverage of the campaign is not serving the voters especially well.

Brooks concludes that arguing that McCain offers voters another term of Bush is "factually inaccurate." Fair enough. McCain agrees with Bush on economic policy, tax policy, foreign policy, national security policy, judicial policy, healthcare policy, immigration policy, and housing policy. Other than that, though, it's completely irresponsible to argue that McCain offers the nation more of the same. What we were thinking?

Thank goodness we have someone as insightful as Brooks to explain these matters to us in the nation's most prestigious news outlet.