"I remember distinctly an image of--we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.”

That statement is so irrational. The other half of what we are is emotion. That is emotion speaking there, not reason.

David Brooks was married to the former Jane Hughes for 28 years. She converted to Judaism and changed her name to Sara. They have three children, one of whom served in the Israel Defense Forces. They divorced in 2014 but there was some confusion. C-SPAN's Brian Lamb got a confirmation, "I am divorced" but "I do not want legally talk about it (sic)." He wasn't being asked "legally." He was asked a factual question, "Is David Brooks divorced" in a non-legal setting by a non-lawyer. He just didn't want to talk about it, period.

I am ready to rule. David Brooks is gay or bisexual and his passion addled his judgment and affected his writing. Brooks' observations and statements on Barack Obama's well-creased pant are not those of an exclusively heterosexual male. His statement that he saw a president in a pant crease is an absurd non sequitur. Mr. Brooks' observations and statements were emotional and the emotion betrayed was love. The title of that New Republic article by Gabriel Sherman was "The Courtship."

I am Benjamin Harris and this is Public Occurrences.