Methinks the laddie doth protest too much!

brooks does have nice thighs...

but it would seem that he either is wanting to bury the GOP or is really in need of counseling -- and not the oprah teevee kind -- or both.

we're in a bit of trouble here with narcissists beatin' on narcissists.

who ya gonna root fer? t

Brooks doesn't have the stones to quietly tell a dinner companion to stop touching him? He really is whipped.

How much did he have to pay that person to touch him?

"...he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time."

WTF?!?

Did he paw Brooks' breasts and call him baby?

After dinner, did Brooks trail behind the senator with his finger in his belt loop?

Did Brooks go into the bathroom with the senator and give him a happy ending while the Senator assumed a wide stance?

Now, let's not jump to conclusions about Senator Craig and his possible passion for Mr. Brooks. I've known some entirely straight men who pawed EVERYONE, regardless of sex, age, or sexual orientation. They were just touchy-feely to the point of the infuriating, and they were also absolutely incorrigible. I'm not thinking of anyone in public life here, and not someone that most of you would have heard of, but the only reason one man's academic career didn't end in firing for sexual harassment was that he was such an equal-opportunity groper that no one could claim his mauling was discriminatory against women/men/household pets/whatever.

Brooks was just envious of all the attention Ensign and Sanford have been getting, and wanted his own sex scandal. He had a peculiar quality of "look at me! look at me!" about him while making this observation."

It's a sign of O'Donnell's limitations as a journalist that her first question wasn't "Well, David, how wide is your stance?"

Now what I want to know is, did this happen to him a Lott, or did the dinner menu feature Graham crackers?

Obama's gonna revive dignity, eh?

Did you see him ogling that young woman yesterday? He practically raped her with his eyes. What kind of society do we live in where the most powerful men in the world can ravish women on a whim with little consequence?

Touching the inner thigh of another dinner guest throughout the evening at an event is most certainly queer in its very nature!

Gird your loins Mr. Brooks! -Kevo

More meaningless bullshit. Get your head out of your ass Benen.

Brooks could just be making this up. Or the senator could be a RINO. Or in a drunken stupor Brooks could have mistaken a democrat senator for a Republican. There are many possibilities.

My guess would be Larry Craig or Lindsay Graham. Any other closeted gays in the Senate? Bobo didn't say if it was a current or past member, either.

Garnash, if looking a little too obviously at an attractive woman is the equivalent of "rape," then most of the male population of the world should be in jail. I don't mind if my husband takes a glance now and then at a pretty woman. As he says, it proves he's not dead (not that I was under any impression he was). But if you'll actually look at the video, rather than the still photo of that incident, you'll see what was actually happening. President Obama turned to offer his hand to another woman who was coming down the steps in very high heels. He was being completely gentlemanly, and if he stole a glance at another lady's nice derriere in the process, well, so what? But you can't really tell in the video whether he even sees her or not. Now Sarkozy is another story! But then, we knew that Mr. Carla Bruni has an eye for the ladies!

That's what I think too. It's not a Republican. It's a Democrat he's talking about. Capital "D" for Democratic Groper. That's the ticket.

cynicalgirl:
Don't forget the current Minority Leader.

Wasn't Jim Bunning known for a screw ball? Oh, he was a screwball. Well, then, never mind.

For those determined to speculate, bear in mind that there's nothing in Brooks' quote saying this was a currently sitting U.S. senator, or that it happened anytime recently.

But you can't really tell in the video whether he even sees her or not.

My guess is not. His head doesn't turn, not even a little bit, as she walks past him.

Translating Brooks-speak, properly. "Eeeh, get otta here" means "Higher, higher".

In "Getting to Know You", it helps to know, for example, the number of Max B's bank account for proper and timely deposits, and the various G-Spots of journalists.

Caucus is the preferred term for gatherings of like minded politicos, not Group Grope, or not....floral linkings?

i think it's time to turn my computer and tv off for a few weeks. Holy fuck ! we're actually having coverage of the possibility that Obama looked at a woman's ass. And even more inane is this Brooks thing.Yeck.

Even when they aren't overt gropers like Ted Haggard, Jim Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggart, evangelicals are totally into invading one's space and putting hands on one. They think they are more persuasive if they lock eyes with you, say your first name a lot, and keep hold of a handful of your flesh.

Sort of like Amway salespeople, and no accident that the latter are often evangelicals and can shift seamlessly between pitching soap and pitching Jeebus Christ as your personal savior.

Don't forget Hatch.

Cokie Roberts said a few years ago that Capitol Hill ladies learned quickly never to get in an elevator alone with Strom Thurmond.

I don't know what caused Brooks to bring that up. O'Donnell politely accused him of being drunk. What does it say about this man who talks about sex before marriage as some crime against your mortal soul that he let some guy fondle his leg for a whole dinner?

Anybody remember Bob Packwood?

Oh, obviously Dennis Hastert.

Drunk. Keeps saying Brooks looks just like his nephew.

Brooks just wants to remember him as a Senator. Makes it better, sort of.

Brooks probably should learn the use of the napkin.
It's meant to intercept anything that falls into one's lap at dinner.

hee hee. sullivan:

I avoid dinners with Republican senators. It's usually far too gay a scene for me.

Hilzoy's comment on this excellent. But why didn't Brooks do what so many women do so very often: a) remove the inappropriate hand, b) scoot chair back, c) start taking about spouse/children/ mother-in-law, or -- something that might be of actual interest to readers -- d) write a column on how the DC media is so clearly whoring for insider power mongers that it's easy for men who consider all women sex objects to get the two categories (women, media whores) confused, but in fact some columnists, like he himself, aren't like that -- oh, right, it's David Brooks who, we might also recall, was terrified of Michelle Obama's arms.

Garnash: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/original/mccain_tongue.jpg

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