David Brooks says a Republican senator groped his thigh at a dinner party

[babylonsister]

Run time: 01:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqbyiq2VjOw   Posted on YouTube: July 10, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 10, 2009 By DU Member: babylonsister Views on DU: 2053

 
:scared:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/10/brooks-republican-senator-thigh/


David Brooks: A Republican senator put ‘his hand on my inner thigh’ for a ‘whole’ dinner party. »


Earlier this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about how “the dignity code” has been “completely obliterated” in Washington, DC. Discussing the concept on MSNBC today, Brooks recalled how he “sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time”:

BROOKS: You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.

HARWOOD: What?

BROOKS: I can only imagine what happens to you guys.

O’DONNELL: Sorry, who was that?

BROOKS: I’m not telling you, I’m not telling you.

Brooks said that he has “spoken to a lot of young women who are Senate staffers and they’ll have these middle age guys who are sort of in the middle of a mid-life crisis. Emotionally needy, they don’t know how to do it and sort of like these St. Bernards drooling everywhere.”

When O’Donnell asked if he had “a couple drinks at lunch,” Brooks said that he was just “trying not to be too dignified and stuffy.”