As John Amato of Crooks and Liars notes, along with half the liberal blogosphere, that when David Brooks says the following:

DAVID BROOKS, “NEW YORK TIMES”: Obama‘s problem is he doesn‘t seem like a guy who can go into an Applebee’s salad bar and people think he fits in naturally there. He has to change to be more like that Applebee’s guy and as he‘s done that he‘s become much more transactional. Much more, I‘m going to deliver this and this and this to you on policy.

He gets one fact wrong, there is no salad bar at Applebee’s.

I guess he’s never been to one.