Boo Boo for Bobo

As regular readers of the Hegemon know, we have nothing but respect for Bobo Brooks here. Aw, who am I trying to kid? The guy's a hack to such an extent that it is an insult for hacks. But my friends, I am afraid that it is worse than that. Of course, those of us who question this supposedly divinely constipated rise of the Neoconservative nut-wing see that not only is the American emperor without clothes and brain, apparently the same is true of his allies.

Read on:

New York Times columnist David Brooks might want to do a background check on the next "expert" he quotes.

From the folks at The Front Page:

Brooks, the reigning conservative on the paper's op-ed page now that William Safire is leaving, is coming under fire for his recent column about Red State "natalism" and birth rates in which he quoted writer Steve Sailer's finding that President Bush "carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility rates."

Brooks doesn't mention that Sailer reportedly runs a Web discussion group whose members include white supremecists and anti-Semites.

Sailer also writes for vdare.com, which the KKK-fighting Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a "hate group."

But on political magazine The American Prospect's blog TAPped, writer Garance Franke-Ruta asks, "Why is David Brooks promoting the work of a well-known eugenicist sympathizer who regularly indulges in racial stereotyping? ... [It's] journalism at its absolute shoddiest."

Big boo boo.