New Jersey restaurateur spins David Brooks' whiskey-soaked $78 airport meal into gold
Brooks apologized Friday evening for his deceptive tweet. Sort of. Not really.
It’s usually pretty easy to ignore New York Times columnist David Brooks, who, along with eminently ignorable Washington Post columnist George Will, is what passes for an oasis in the sere, forbidding desert of intellectual conservatism these days.
But as Daily Kos’ Laura Clawson reported on Thursday, Brooks’ mealy takes on The Culture became impossible to ignore this week when he xweeted a xweet on X—the social media platform still pretty much known as Twitter—that was so out of touch it could have been crafted and focus-grouped by Mehmet Oz’s 2020 Senate campaign.
The tweet included a tableau of Biden-era economic horrors: a serviceable burger, a modest pile of crinkle cut fries, three empty ketchup packets, a ripe-ish tomato slice, and some unremarkable greens for—$78?! Oh, and it looks like there’s a tumbler of something, too. Could be some sort of brown liquor. And is that maybe an empty tumbler in the upper left there?
But still. Seventy-eight dollars?! What economic evils hath that fiend Joe Biden wrought this time?
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