# Brooks
So this is in keeping with all those profound, eloquent David Brooks columns and articles and books he's written condemning state-level book bannings and federal level banning of words, right? Or condemnig POTUS for constantly calling people "communist." Right? A man of deep principle, right?
October 12, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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October 12, 2026 at 6:03 PM
idk if the sweater alone qualifies but this fit from DEATHDREAM aka DEAD OF NIGHT (the film Bob Clark made right before Black Christmas) had me hootin' and hollerin'
October 12, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Well yeah, you'd get sued by Mel Brooks for copyright infringement.
October 12, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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I'm no Stan of David 'The Dud' Brooks or his relentlessly, bloodlessly centrist and overnegotiated views, but in THIS essay he's right on the money from Α to Ω.

As an #IvyLeague alumnus myself, I'm able to confirm it all 💯%.

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How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
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October 12, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Anytime someone says anything mel brooks couldn't be made today, my head wants to explode.

You don't get the humor if you think that
October 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Capsule Review: Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Even by Brooks' standards, this one is dull. It's like Brooks forgot he was making a comedy most of the time. And when he did remember, well, it's typical of his later work.

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October 12, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Even Mel Brooks couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. So many of the scenes require daylight and there's only, what, seven hours before sunset in California?
October 12, 2026 at 5:59 PM
The thing is, "don't call your opponent a Nazi" maybe makes some kind of sense unless they are, in fact, a Nazi, in which case it just means "don't look reality in the face" which, bad advice, man. Really bad advice.

Brooks and so many others just refuse to see what the GOP has become ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
October 12, 2026 at 5:59 PM
And David Brooks has his undershorts all twisted up.
October 12, 2026 at 5:58 PM
IMO Brooks knew and pretended not to .

He’s done this and been busted 2x

In’08 inventing the salad bar at Applebees

Again in’23,claiming an airport burger & fries was $78 including tip. He left out the part where he 2 $3 Mixed drinks.
October 12, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I present to you David Brooks: "Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it’s time to shut up. That’s just not what we do here in this country"

Oh, please—Have you met the asshole who heads your party right now? He started this shit! So f*ck off!!
October 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Truly a bunch of great joke answers to why you can't but the real reason has always been none of us will ever be Mel Brooks
October 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM
He never failed to make me laugh.There’s nobody as funny as Mel Brooks. I still remember David Susskind interviewing several comedians including Mel, and Mel broke them all up.
I’ve very few heroes as I’m not really into idolatry — but MEL BROOKS will always be one.

Here he is in 1981 dealing with Alan Yentob and baby pictures.

Hilarious.
October 12, 2026 at 5:55 PM
If you ever see Brooks Brothers at the thrift store, those are good.
October 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Imaging the furious dudgeon from David Brooks if a candidate demanded equal scrutiny of Elon's or Melania's immigration records: "We don't do that in this country."
Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father
When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong.

Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid
October 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Interesting comment on Obama and Brooks. Their heritage would have excluded them, but otherwise I could see them very comfortably in 1937 Yale.
October 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Brooks has never, ever had a good take.
I have no idea why he’s ever been a thing.
October 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Spaceballs made fun of film merchandising and had them watching the movie on VHS to figure out where the heroes were

So yeah more Mel Brooks haha
October 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
No one, Mel Brooks have four hands.
October 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Brooks stopped being relevant in 2008.
October 12, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Can someone let David Brooks know that this is extremely Nazi-shaped conduct?
October 12, 2026 at 5:47 PM