In an earlier post, C&L and many other sites caught David Brooks say this:
DAVID BROOKS, “NEW YORK TIMES: Obama‘s problem is he doesn‘t seem like a guy who can go into an Applebee‘s salad bar and people think he fits in naturally there. He has to change to be more like that Applebee‘s guy and as he‘s done that he‘s become much more transactional. Much more, I‘m going to deliver this and this and this to you on policy.
C&Ler Mitzi left this in the comment section:
I called my Applebee’s today to make sure I was correct and they do not have a salad bar. Just goes to show how much these people who make these comments have no idea how “regular people” live their lives.
I called an Applebee’s also and they told me that none of their restaurants have a salad bar. David, sometimes the jokes write themselves. What an idiot.
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You misspelled “write”.
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Psst….
“David, sometimes the jokes right themselves”
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David, sometimes the jokes write themselves…
Frist?
I ate at Applebees yesterday and as of then they didn’t have a salad bar.
I called an Applebee’s also and they told me that none of their restaurants have a salad bar also. David, sometimes the jokes right themselves. What an idiot.
you mean idot, don’t you?
(didn’t you get the concern troll memo?)
Okay and what does “fits in naturally” actually mean?
perfect! now that is worth a thread!
did LA Crybaby get here yet?
David Brooks = overpaid, rich and out-of-touch. I’m sure he’s never been in an Applebee’s.
He has no business critiquing anyone’s ability to understand the “common people”.
Brooks, the true ELITIST, calling the kettle black. Love the irony.
Of course irony is lost on most TV talking heads. To this class of useless people… irony is what flattens the wrinkles on their on-air shirt collars.
“bobo” brooks‘ problem is that he can’t go into an applebee‘s men’s room and people think he fits in naturally there.
I presume he meant that Obama wouldn’t fit into the picture unless he was replenishing the salad bar. Which is what I would expect of Brooks.
I’m not sure Obama should be an “Applebee’s guy”. I don’t think anyone can afford to go to Applebee’s anymore (I remember reading a news story on the subject) and thus an “Applebee’s” guy may be seen as elitist. Maybe Obama can be the guy that you’d share your Ramen noodles and ice water with as you, with tears in your eyes, open your foreclosure notice. Y’know, regular folk.
He’s employed by the “liberal” New York Times. One more reason not to read that paper. Aside from the lousy sports section.
He meant the salad bar in his head.
J DeRego @ 2:
Shorter version: David Brooks is a joke.
I guess that would depend on if he’s ever been outside of the country club.
I ate at an Applebbe’s. Once. It was the blandest most pedestrian food I evedr vaguely remember eating. And I got stuck with the surprisingly large check. Two thumbs down.
Applebee’s is owned by a very conservative corporation. Not nice people to support! Just a heads up!
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I wonder what sort of angles the media elite would find to attack Obama with if he DID eat at Applebees regularly.
I can’t believe this actually is a legitimate discussion in the so-called mainstream media, about a presidential candidate.
If we as a nation base our decisions on a Presidential Candidate’s choice of chain-restaurant, (or whether or not we feel as though we can have a beer with him/her…sound familiar?) then we get the President we deserve.
Touche, Mitzi. I’m sure you’ll do just fine in the lightening round.
aarrgghh @ 10:
Theres a stall reserved for him next to Craigs one in MN in Sept.
Typos in solidarity. Rock on John.
Peter G @ 11:
brooks said this on sunday, like a reprise of the barstool president meme. but Obama doesn’t drink, AFAIK, only smokes. hence the stool at Applebees. of course you know that.
It occurs to me that so many have been handing this asshat his idiot papers, that he’s been keeping a low profile. what I’m seeing in this asshat revival is that the media is about to blast Obama with everything from virulent racist pat buchanan to total concern trolls brooks and stephanopulass
Peter G @ 17:
But,but but their TV adverts look so appealing…
this is a silly gotcha. ha ha, Brooks, there is no salad bar. ha ha, Obama it’s Buchenwald, not Auschwitz. etc. The point is not whether Brooks eats at Appleby’s; the point is: does Obama have some work to do in terms of perception? yes, suggests Brooks, and he’s correct. guess what folks, just to take the most recent example: Bush won a second term in part because he pulled off the ‘regular folks’ crap succesfully, regardless of that fact that he was a little oil patch princeling. this is not Obama’s fault, it’s all about control of the media narrative — of course the netroots all know McCain and wife have a hundred million, but do the folks lining up at the salad bar of Appleby’s know this?
I have fantasies of taking a survey of pundits, reporters, and politicians: How many times in the past week have you had food served to you by waitstaff, whether a restaurant’s or in a private home.
Bet the answer would tell you everything you need to know about our political class.
I Am A Banana @ 19:
They’ll wonder why he isn’t more like the guy that good ol’ red blooded apple pie American folk share their heroin needles with.
I think Barack looks like he would fit right in at an Applebees.
David Brooks would not for sure.
David Brooks has no idea what people look like in an Applebees.
JM @ 18:
Correction?? I see IHOP purchased the chain last year. I just recall a few years back when the good people at BuyBlue.org had Applebee’s corporate owners listed as baddies!
Been to Applebees once, not impressed,
Culvers (and their Jumbo Deluxe bacon burgers, yum) FTW.
Sometimes the jokes do right themselves….maybe.
And it’s about time you addressed this, Amato. I thought you might be dodging the salad bar controversy. Well reported, if not a tad late.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 24:
I have a friend who manufactures “food” for ads. None of it is at all edible. In fact the more appetizing it looks the more lethal it is likely to be. I prefer less glycerin and hairspray in my diet.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 30:
and their frozen custard, until you eat too much of it…
David Brooks, saw him at the local Soup R Salad the other day talking to the salad bar.
This is awesome. I’m so making a video about this.
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 30:
Culvers frozen custard.
YUMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……
Maybe he meant Sizzler. They have a salad bar.
But seriously, “Not an Applebees kind of guy” has got to be the most pathetic attempt to connect wit us “common Folk” ever.
Does anyone here worry that Hillary will run as a third party candidate like I do?
Andy K Jong Il @ 31:
Sneeze guards. If those don’t make you lose your appetite, I don’t know what will. More controversy…
Brooks and the rest are trying to paint Obama as arrogant but they are right. Obama has the audacity to make them pay their fair share.
Peter G @ 32:
I wonder who made Chimpy’s plastic turkey he showed off for that thanksgiving PR stunt in Kuwait.
the salad bar that doesn’t exist
gives to Brooks a mordant twist
for when reality dies its death
blame the one with crouton breath
and so it is Obama’s shame
too elite to play the game
Applebees remains the place
where Brooks has found egg on his face
++++
John F A @ 37:
Maybe it was Ponderosa, Home of the All You Can Eat Buffet? Who knew that tacos and spaghetti are the perfect lead-ins to a New York Strip?
Boy you should have seen the looks on the faces at the white guys at the Fox Nothing Channel after Obama burned the roof off that place! The camera was shaking around, and they all looked pale. I guess Karl Rove has video of Michelle Obama at church and is going to release it manana. McCain was terrible terrible tonight. Clinton was terrible terrible. Obama probably have the best speech I’ve ever seen in my 33 years. I guess that’s why they are going to destroy him.
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peace @ 38:
It might be rather embarrassing for her, I doubt she would risk it.
It would really show up how much or how little real support she has as HRC (I) rather than as HRC (D).
If it turned out she had 1% or less she would never live it down.
I wonder if the NYT knows just how real world stupid David Brooks really is. Not that it would make much of a difference, after all they did hire a real mouth breather …… Bloody Bill (the papers village idiot).
peace @ 38:
Don’t even joke about it. And yes, I do. If it was good enough for Loserman in CT,…
miss_kitty @ 39:
Sneeze guards. YUMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…….
I’m very tired. Wings in regulation tomorrow night, please, Gods of Hockey…..GNA!
This was an attempt by David Brooks, the racist, to bring to mind how blacks have been allowed to be served at restaurants and how that has caused the downfall of America and why so many white people are now not doing so well. Racist such as David Brooks are always looking for groups to scapegoat.
David Brooks suffers from deliberately untreated mental illness as so many Republicans do.
The sun rises in the east. Christmas comes in December. And yet another right wing idiot doesn’t know what the hell they are talking about.
Some things will never change!
miss_kitty @ 39:
With greasy fingerprints on them. I have enough to worry about thinking what goes on in the kitchen never mind eating from the communal bowl of salad. Anybody care to guess about what percentage of people don’t wash their hands after visiting the washrooms? Oh and to stay on topic: David Brooks is bad.
Anyone with working taste buds would not want to eat their crappy chain food.
Applebees is lower than Chili’s And about the same level of disgusting as Red Lobster.
That being said, who cares about the salad bar thing?
What Brooks is saying is stupid on its face because they are trying to run that old horseshit up the flag pole again about how we all want to have a “normal” guy as the prez.
As in a phony cowboy who had a daddy get them into Yale and Harvard.
That sure worked out well for us.
I don’t care what the fucker likes to eat, or what brand of smokes he likes, or beer he guzzles.
Just do the fucking job.
can someone please explain to me, how someone from a single parent home can be painted as an “elitest”?
and i have never been in an appleby’s, but i always assumed they were known for their pies
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