David Brooks: His reputation as a hothead is 'vastly overstated'
(NEWSER) - Rahm Emanuel's larger-than-life caricature as a hot-headed politician prone to throwing temper tantrums and lobbing F-bombs is "vastly overstated," writes David Brooks. Emanuel is actually quite thick-skinned, and while he is a "professional strategist" for sure, "he is not one of these cold-eyed tacticians who is always hedging his bets," writes Brooks in the New York Times . "He speaks the language of loyalty and commitment, not the language of calculations and self-interest." More»