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Go Home David Brooks Caption Contest

JONATHAN CHAIT MAY 16, 2011

David Brooks Caption Contest

BY JONATHAN CHAIT

Put your entry in the comments. I'll post the winner tomorrow.

 

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"What does Ailes want me to say?"

- roidubouloi

May 16, 2011 at 2:24pm

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"there's no one in the left half of the photo, you say? The piece that's suspended above empty stairwell? Just give me a second!!!"

- miceelf

May 16, 2011 at 2:28pm

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I hear footsteps.....

- Zachsteph

May 16, 2011 at 2:29pm

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....yea he dumped all over Ryan's medicare plan...what do I believe now?

- Zachsteph

May 16, 2011 at 2:32pm

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- Yes, I'm inside his mansion. In Tripoli! But we're headed to a shelter...I'll ring back later."

- michaelg

May 16, 2011 at 2:33pm

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David Brooks, columnist, reacts to a job offer in the Obama White House; he was later informed that it was part of a joke orchestrated by Newt Gringrich (top center) in retaliation for Brooks' earlier statements about him.

- janus

May 16, 2011 at 2:33pm

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"The liberals are coming! The liberals are coming!"

- ramcat

May 16, 2011 at 2:42pm

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"Hello, Intrade? Yeah.... BLUE HORSESHOE LOVES NEWT GINGRICH."

- Tristan

May 16, 2011 at 2:42pm

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"AEI's buffet is open, and it's free!"

- rayward

May 16, 2011 at 2:44pm

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Newt just agreed to let me narrate his and his wife's next educational video. Ha! That'll show Krugman who the real intellectual is!

- kference

May 16, 2011 at 2:45pm

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Don't tell me you're not in the building Krugman, I can see you!

- NCblue

May 16, 2011 at 2:47pm

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Gotta go, my friends are waiting--we're playing Navy SEALs.

- elopez

May 16, 2011 at 2:53pm

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"I just said something with conviction, I gotta get away from here!"

- SarabandeG

May 16, 2011 at 2:54pm

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Mr President! David Brooks here -- haven't got much time, can't explain. But if anything happens to me, I just want you to know I voted for you!

- ironyroad

May 16, 2011 at 2:57pm

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"He's coming down now, right behind me! When I say 'Patio Man,' hit him in the face with the pie."

- W_Bombay

May 16, 2011 at 3:03pm

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"Ailes, I don't think I can keep pulling the wool over the eyes of these NPR hosts. They're asking questions!"

- zardoz67

May 16, 2011 at 3:16pm

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David Brooks; ducking the hard questions since 2003.

- nr050404

May 16, 2011 at 3:18pm

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"I think Krugman just tapped my shoe in the bathroom stall!"

- RJSampson1

May 16, 2011 at 3:19pm

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Crikey! Is that a bipartisan compromise I see?

- jnordlander

May 16, 2011 at 3:25pm

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Quasimodo clears a path for his beloved Esmerelda.

- Johnson172

May 16, 2011 at 3:38pm

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The call is coming from inside the Speaker of the House...

- NR114663

May 16, 2011 at 3:45pm

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I would just take from Brooks directly, you won't be able to beat it. How about -- "Relax, We’ll Be Fine" -- for starters?

- keepin_on

May 16, 2011 at 4:03pm

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"Hey, just had lunch with Paul Ryan....I know! I know!

- TNRfan

May 16, 2011 at 4:37pm

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"OMG! He mentioned Edmund Burke and Reinhold Niebuhr. I'm going to write the column now: 'Republican Virtue is Not Always Personal Virtue.'"

- Pnaut

May 16, 2011 at 4:40pm

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Sorry, I forgot to add a second quotation mark in the above entry. Well, scratch me off the list.

- TNRfan

May 16, 2011 at 4:40pm

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"You're shitting me? Shields is DEAD? Do I get top billing starting this Friday?"

- LordHawHaw

May 16, 2011 at 5:00pm

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"Brooks reacts after Gingrich touches his leg under dinner table."

- Jonas

May 16, 2011 at 5:13pm

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Thomas Nagel? On the line for ME?

- westendorf

May 16, 2011 at 5:16pm

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Do you believe his head's even bigger in person!

- wildboy

May 16, 2011 at 5:47pm

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It can't wait till Saturday I expect to be gone.

- quirko

May 16, 2011 at 5:52pm

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Oh crap, it's Jon Chait. If he sees me here inside the Koch mansion I'll end up in one of his snarky posts.

- lev

May 16, 2011 at 5:57pm

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"I'm not the product of my conscious thinking. I'm a social animal!" "I'm on my way to see Daley. Don't tell Krugman." "That's what she said! By 'she' I mean Margaret Thatcher."

- jzack

May 16, 2011 at 5:59pm

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Do you think Chait will take the bait?

- noga1

May 16, 2011 at 6:02pm

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"I am in position now, when Krugman comes downstairs I am going to so totally pants him"

- blackton

May 16, 2011 at 6:03pm

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Don't know if I'm allowed a second shot, but: "Ok, I have to move fast -- it was dumb but I accidentally mentioned the New Republic and the alarm went off right away!"

- ironyroad

May 16, 2011 at 6:17pm

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"Mr. President? Newt is serious. Shit, he saw me. He knows I'm a spy. I gotta go...."

- ggordon27

May 16, 2011 at 6:17pm

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Roger, I am bailing out on the windbag...who should I support now?

- Zachsteph

May 16, 2011 at 7:02pm

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"Help! The people are coming! The people are coming!"

- Sophia

May 16, 2011 at 7:03pm

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"Get the camera up here. He agreed to an interview!"

- liberalref

May 16, 2011 at 7:34pm

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What? You mean I was RIGHT about something?

- czapniks

May 16, 2011 at 8:34pm

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So Newt gets annoyed and says "Stop focusing on my past. Focus on the future." I can't believe I said this but . . . "OK, when are you going to divorce your current wife?"

- dubyadoubte

May 16, 2011 at 9:01pm

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"I just used the word 'poop' in my latest column. This getting in touch with my evolutionary neurobiology is so liberating!"

- AaronW

May 16, 2011 at 11:22pm

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"I have to use the toilet and I'm waiting to interview Newt. I find that if I bend over I can hold it longer."

- Nusholtz

May 17, 2011 at 8:46am

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"OMG. Is that Paul Ryan? Honey, you won't believe who's looking directly at me! And my shirt isn't even tucked in. How embarrassing."

- maxhencke

May 17, 2011 at 10:16am

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