Friday, October 12, 2012

Hack to the Future

Following last night's debate, David Brooks phones in the kind of insight that we've come to expect from him:
Correction: October 12, 2012

An earlier version of this article gave an incorrect surname for the "Family Ties" character played by Michael J. Fox. The character was Alex Keaton, not Keating.
If I remember more correctly than BoBo, Alex Keaton was humorless prick who lived with his parents well into his twenties and attended college but never created -- or held -- a job.

BoBo's thinking of the convicted bankster who would have bought Paul Ryan in the 80s if Ryan was 30 years older.

Confidential to the New York Times: I've got 750 words on Mitt Romney as Leland Palmer. E-mail me for the details on where to send payment.

4 comments:

  1. Keating is Gabriel Byrne's character in The Usual Suspects, no?

    I suspect Brooks's unconscious was telling him to Tell the Truth.

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  2. Oops. Apparently Byrne played Dean Keaton. (So much for my hearing.)

    Which is still a more true comparison than Alex Keaton, except for the "sponged off his parents and never got a real job on his own" part, which matches Mittster to a tee.

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  4. "Family Ties" character played by Michael J. Fox. The character was Alex Keaton, not Keating.

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