A Slate.com article begins: "David Brooks is America's one genuinely likable conservative." When your employers include PBS and the New York Times, you'll always be the likeable "conservative" for liberals. (Hat tip, The Corner.)

Hey, My friends said I was the only genuinely likeable conservative!

About the original "Kiss of Death"... who other than the NYTimes would publish this sentence, with no hint of irony, on Holy Thursday?

"No one questions the authenticity of the Judas gospel, which depicts Judas Iscariot not as a betrayer of Jesus but as his favored disciple."

"All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds..."

Maybe there's hope for the NYT, yet. Who better to trust with a betrayal than one's right hand man. Jesus' death and resurrection is the basis of Christianity, so did it not need to happen as it did? Perhaps Judas should be honored for pushing the events forward, not as the historical traitor he has become.

Now along comes the hysterical traitor David Brooks. Though I'm not sure who (whom?) he's betraying the most, yet.

"Blinded by the right, wrapped up like a douche-bag, another runner in the night..." (with slight apologies to Bruce Springsteen) Weirdness.

David Brooks is not a conservative.