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Buyout's Remorse
2008-05-14 23:48:00 Wash Post political guru David Broder takes the buyout. The 78-year-old Broder will get paid as a contract columnist. Politico Broder follows in the footsteps of such Post luminaries as TV critic Tom Shales. Annoying broadcast blowhard Tony Kornheiser also took the buyout. Huff PostSoon all the old farts at the WaPo, NYT, LA Times and other major newspapers will be gone...
By: Chickaboomer
Poor David
2008-03-20 21:49:00 David Broder's column this morning has a tone of sadness and disappointment. Broder thinks that McCain should have used his trip to the mid east to distance himself from George Bush but instead it was more stay the course and actually demonstrated that he is just as clueless as Bush himself. It is obvious that the Democrats are planning to run against McCain by linking him as tightly as possible with President Bush, the instigator of the Iraq war and the captain of a seriously shaky economy.As a member of the minority party in a largely dysfunctional Senate, there is little McCain can do to rescue the economy. But the Baghdad visit offered him a chance to deal with the other big barrier to his election -- his close identification with Bush's policies in a war now into its sixth wearying year.[.....]Petraeus told Barr that he and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker had "repeatedly noted that it's crucial that the Iraqis exploit the opportunities that we and our Iraqi counterparts have foug...
Why I?m not a journalist, or the inferiority complex of the modern media
2008-03-05 02:25:00 Ever since I started writing professionally, my friends have asked me why I don’t go into journalism full-time. “You’d be great at it, they say–you’re a natural!” Now, maybe that’s true and maybe it isn’t. But even if it were, there’re a million reasons why I don’t want to enmesh myself in the modern media unless it’s on my terms. Shitty pay. Humiliating rituals of “dues paying” for newbies. Long hours. The utter vitriol and hatred of pretty much the entire free world and much of the not-so-free world. Most of all, I wouldn’t want to be a full-time reporter because it disgusts me to see how the modern media industry has let its primary duty of telling the truth and informing the public be cast away in favor of empty snark, passive-aggressive cynicism, and the sycophantic banality of sucking up to everyone from editors to interviewees just for the sake of–what? Access? Prestige? Being the firs...
More Proof That David Broder Is An Idiot
2007-10-21 16:36:00 In today's WaPo, the "Dean of Beltway Journalism" offers us this...For most of the American public, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt is best defined by his role defending President Bush's controversial veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.Leavitt, along with the president, has argued that the bipartisan bill is too ambitious and too expensive, encroaching on the private insurance market. For his pains, he has been characterized as an ogre, standing in the way of better treatment for millions of youngsters in cash-strapped families.That is not the man I got to know and admire in his years as governor of Utah and a leader in the National Governors Association. And it is not the man I heard address a conference of health-care insurers and providers here last week.Part of the reason why Leavitt has been characterized as an ogre on kids' health is because he is an ogre on kids' health - as noted here (Question #10 - from his days as Utah governor,...
David Broder - what can I say
2007-09-20 06:46:00 Well I could say David Broder is senile - but I think I have said that before. Mr Why can't everyone just get along has a new hero. And that hero is none other than Newt Gingrich. Yes, it's long past the time for Mr Broder to ride off to that retirement home.Newt's Vision ThingBy David S. Broder In the years since I first met him in 1974, I have learned that it's wise to take Newt Gingrich seriously. He has many character flaws, and his language is often exaggerated and imprudent. But if there is any politician of the current generation who has earned the label "visionary," it is probably the Georgia Republican and former speaker of the House.For that reason alone, it is regrettable that Gingrich has virtually decided to pass on the 2008 presidential race.Yes, those are gaging sounds you hear! Newt a visionary? It just gets worse and I can't bring myself to even copy and paste anymore.Please Mr Broder - please retire. Don't you have some nice cabin you could go to and fix thos...
David Broder - "Bloomberg And Hagel For 2008?"
2007-08-27 18:16:00 David S. Broder's column in yesterday's Washington Post, "Bloomberg And Hagel For 2008?", is certainly worth a read.Chuck Hagel, the senator from Nebraska, describes himself as a "tidal" politician, one who believes that larger forces in society shape careers more than the ambitions of individuals. "The only mistakes I've made," he told me last week, "were when I tried to go against the tide."...Next month, Hagel will make a threshold decision -- whether to run for a third term in the Senate. He gave me no definitive answer, but my guess is that he will say that 12 years of battling the institutional lethargy of Capitol Hill will be enough. Certainly he is under no illusions about how much he can achieve as one of 100 lawmakers....The imperative the public will impose on the next president, Hagel says, "is to lead the country and restore the sense of national purpose." But the early start on campaigning for the GOP and Democratic nominations, and the prospect that the battles on ...
David Broder says.....
2007-07-05 19:45:00 ....the problem with the United States is all the pesky citizens.David Broder asks: what do they think this is, a Democracy? Well at least that seems to be what he is saying in his latest rambling column, A Mob-Rule Moment. A particularly virulent strain of populism has made official Washington altogether too responsive to public opinion.The nerve of those people to think that those they elect should actually listen to them. In today's Washington, a badly weakened president and a dangerously compliant congressional leadership are no match for the power of public opinion -- magnified and sometimes exaggerated by modern communications and interest group pressure.Sorry Mr Broder, I fail to see how politicians being "match for the power of public opinion" is a bad thing. Isn't that why we call them "representatives"?Of course since Mr Broder sees himself as a centrist both Republicans and Democrats are "guilty" of listening to the people. The latest cave-ins involve immigration and tr...
Surprise Surprise!
2007-06-30 00:44:00 Yes those are the words of the lovable Gomer Pyle but they also could have been the by line of David Broder's commentary on Cheney that I simply dismissed yesterday as a bad 8th grade civics paper. Well Josh Marshall asks, where has Mr Broder and the rest of the DC punditry been that last few years? Yesterday David Broder wrote a column which one TPM Reader, more or less fairly, described as Broder's expression of shock, shock at just what Dick Cheney has been up to over the last six-plus years. And this is a good opportunity to say that the Post's 'Angler' series seems to be becoming the trigger for that transition moment where consensus establishment opinion goes from seeing the vice president as the powerful administration heavy with a sometimes creepy but largely comic penchant for secrecy to an altogether more nefarious force who has used his unprecedented power as vice president to advance an agenda of official secrecy, non-accountability, untrammeled executive power, leg...
So where are all those centrists?
2007-06-26 03:01:00 The out of touch DC pundits like David Broder are for ever telling us that the US is made up of moderates/centrists. According to Broder they want Washington to act in a bi-partisan manner and solve the nation's problems. Well now we have a bi-partisan immigration bill written by both Democrats and Republicans including the administration of George W Cheney Bush and Teddy Kennedy. Well guess what, only 22% of the American voters like it.Just 22% Favor Stalled Immigration Bill As the Senate prepares to resume debate the ?comprehensive? immigration reform bill, the legislation continues to face broad public opposition. In fact, despite a massive White House effort, public opinion has barely moved since the public uproar stalled the bill just over two weeks ago.The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 22% of American voters currently favor the legislation. That?s down a point from 23% a couple of weeks ago and down from 26% when the debate in the Senate b...
David Broder - Rapist?
2007-06-10 05:43:00 I found this blog post via memeorandum under 5 Myths About Scooter and the Slammer. The blog, Mercury Rising is one I don't think I've seen before and the post, David Broder Is A Rapist is a classic. Is he? Literally? Probably not.But he has the moral vacuity, and the cognitive dissonance, of a serial rapist. Just examine his latest piece of amoral tripe, ?Judge Walton?s Lesson?.The money quote from Broder: This whole controversy is a sideshow ? engineered partly by the publicity-seeking former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife and heightened by the hunger in parts of Washington to ?get? Rove for something or other.Like other special prosecutors before him, Fitzgerald got caught up in the excitement of the case and pursued Libby relentlessly, well beyond the time that was reasonable.Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you:What sort of amorality does it take to ignore the fact that:1) Dick Cheney outed Valerie Plame in a fit of pique over her husband?s column ?What I Didn?t Find In Nig... |
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