UPDATE: Ben Smith of Buzzfeed just tweeted: "David Brooks says he found the reaction to his column today, which was intended as parody of media, 'regrettable but predictable'."
Earlier: A new column by David "Mel" Brooks, mocking Mitt Romney's life story, has been drawing a wildly diverse response on Twitter and the web since it was posted last night. Some didn't get that it was tongue-in-cheek. Others got it and declared it amazingly funny (for Brooks): "Brooks outdoes Borowitz and the Onion." Or just plain stupid. Some declared that he was throwing Romney under the bus--GOPers will be outraged--even if he was just joking. Or that it was a successful takedown of his fellow pundits (of the left-leaning variety). Or merely that he'd gotten drunk or high before penning the column--and should do so more often.
I tweeted that much of this analysis was overblown--I'm sure he still supports Romney (and loves Ryan) and was just having some "fun." Perhaps it reveals that all of his fan-boy columns about Springsteen are also purely satiric. Maybe a way to mock Chris Christie? Also: Proof that with today's GOP truth is still funnier than fiction. Did hear the one about women being able to turn on internal sperm bombs?
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I find his pretentious Carlyle imitation regrettable but predictable.
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