Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "David Brooks (commentator)" in English language version.
Host: Does David regret his comment about Sarah Palin and her cancer on the Republican party? Brooks: Yeah, I do. I think it was some lunch affair for some magazine, and I was just mouthing off, and so I – I'm not a fan of hers, but that's a little strong.
Host: So how is the president doing? Brooks: You know, I think I'm a little disappointed that he didn't do Simpson-Bowles. I was a little disappointed in the way the debt has run up, and I don't blame him for running up the debt in the Great Recession, but I think we needed an exit strategy to get out of it. I think he could have done a little more to promote growth, though I think given all the bad things it was going to be tough no matter who was president, no matter who did anything, it was going to be tough to promote growth. So I don't particularly blame him for that. I think he's conducted himself in pretty much an honest way. He's had very little corruption. I still have great personal admiration for him. I'm more to his right, but I give him no worse than a B−. I think he's made some mistakes, but I wouldn't say he's been a bad president.
(40:42) Lamb: Are you divorced or not? Brooks: I am divorced, yes. And I don't want to personally, I don't want to legally, talk about it, but yes, I am divorced. ... I do believe in marriage, mine didn't work out, I desperately want to get married to somebody.
I believe in incremental change but constant change. To be a Burkean, in America these days, is to be a moderate, which is what I think I've become. It's not to be a populist right-winger, or a Reaganite-Thatcherite type.
His wife is devoutly Jewish—she converted after they married and recently changed her name from Jane Hughes to the more biblical-sounding Sarah Brooks—but he rarely attends synagogue.
As an American Jew, I was taught to go all gooey-eyed at the thought of Israel ...
And I look at that photo, I think, well, he's a sociopath. He's incapable of experiencing or showing empathy.
