David Brooks wrote a really hilarious mock biography of Mitt Romney. It’s seriously funny, folks. Here is just a small excerpt:
Romney was a precocious and gifted child. He uttered his first words (“I like to fire people”) at age 14 months, made his first gaffe at 15 months and purchased his first nursery school at 24 months. The school, highly leveraged, went under, but Romney made 24 million Jujubes on the deal.
Mitt grew up in a modest family. His father had an auto body shop called the American Motors Corporation, and his mother owned a small piece of land, Brazil. He had several boyhood friends, many of whom owned Nascar franchises, and excelled at school, where his fourth-grade project, “Inspiring Actuaries I Have Known,” was widely admired.
The Romneys had a special family tradition. The most cherished member got to spend road trips on the roof of the car. Mitt spent many happy hours up there, applying face lotion to combat windburn.
Now head over to the article and read it in full. Reminder: this is humor, ha ha, turn your frown, etc. Please don’t leave any comments outlining how Romney didn’t buy any nursery schools.
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It fell flat for me because I think of David Brooks as being all the things he’s trying to mock Mitt Romney for being, in equal measure.
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I know next to nothing about Brooks, so my ignorance made the post more enjoyable.
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Interesting to see what some people find funny.
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Apparently he meant it to be a satire of what Democrats say about Romney. I heard him interviewed about it on the radio and he was disappointed that Republicans had hated the piece and Democrats had liked it.
(Brooks is a conservative NYT op-ed writer who sometimes writes something amusing, like this.)
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Well, if he tried to be satirical, he flopped because the article sounds way too true. There are candidates who lend themselves too easily to ridicule.
I love it when people say the truth in spite of themselves.
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