Embarrassment Dean David Broder WaPo online discussion scheduled for 12 noon ET today (4/27)

[BurtWorm]

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Oddly enough, though Broder's discussion is on the weekly schedule page, it's missing from the list of today's discussion on the Discussion page. Hmmm...




PS: Broder's criticism of Harry Reid as "an embarrassment" for Dems equal to Gonzales's embarrassment for Repubs drew pages and pages of comments on line calling for Broder's retirement. His riposte seems to be today's column praising John McCain for resuming his patently phony "Straight Talk" schtick.

I have to wonder if the Post is trying to protect the Dean of Washington Insiders from the mob of Americans who find him to be a tiresome gasbag (as Paul Begala would say--though he might pick a different adjective).

[Benhurst]

1. Aside from his good looks, I never could figure what Broder had going for him.

He's a fountainhead of conventional wisdom and dumb as a post.

[BurtWorm]

2. He's got good looks?

I never noticed. Not saying anything against him or ordinariness, but he looks very ordinary to me.

[Benhurst]

4. Gosh, did I forget the "sarcasm" Smilie?

:rofl:

[BurtWorm]

6. Praise gods, yes!

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

3. He really has become an embarassment. They should relegate him to 'style' like they did McGrory

when she got kind of senile. I usually agreed with her, I just no longer understood how she got to her conclusions.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

5. I left him a question asking him if he knew exactly when it was he

sold out his profession. Ya think he'll answer that one?

[Captain Hilts]

7. His suggestion to name the Wash baseball team the "Gippers" STILL makes me ill.

And it shows how he's lost all perspective. As if it would be a good idea to introduce partisan issues to an athletic team, ticking off half the potential fans.

[BurtWorm]

10. Did he really?

That says a LOT about where he is--not Republican, necessarily, but constipatedly right wing for sure, if he thinks the residents of DC would be proud to have a team named after a Ronald Reagan character.

:puke:

[Captain Hilts]

12. And a huge federal building, and their airport...

and he HATED Washington.

We won't even talk about the aircraft carrier.

[bunkerbuster1]

8. It's next friday, May 4, actually.

[BurtWorm]

11. How did you know that?

[bunkerbuster1]

13. I ate my Wheaties today! They give me sooper mental powerz!

Oh, and Atrios mentioned it in a blog-post-correction...

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_04_22_archive.html#8704320733763539603

[BurtWorm]

14. Yeah, but which came first?

The Wheaties or Atrios? :dunce:

[bunkerbuster1]

15. Anyway, I did send in a question for Karl Rove's BFF...

I asked Broder if he was humiliated, or flattered, when he received a letter of condemnation signed by 50 US Senators. We'll see if he answers.

[BurtWorm]

16. You know what? I bet I fooled Atrios into thinking it was today.

:blush:

:hi:

Hi, Atrios!

[bunkerbuster1]

17. Naw, let's blame it on Kos

I'm sure it's his fault.

[WiseButAngrySara]

9. David Broder is a Gasbag! HuffPo by Paul Begala ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/david-broder-is-a-gasbag_b_46923.html

Paul Begala

David Broder Is a Gasbag

One of the few regrets I have in life is that I allowed Ann Devroy of the Washington Post to talk me into apologizing for calling David Broder "a gasbag" in 1995. My admiration for Devroy trumped my contempt for Broder. Ann, sadly, is gone, but Broder remains. She was everything Broder is not: fearless, intellectually honest, scrupulously fair, and suspicious of power.
Broder, of course, is a gasbag. The Hindenburg of pundits. But my respect for Ann knew no bounds, and she thought I was being unfair. In retrospect I was being unfair. To gasbags.
Mr. Broder has been foaming at the mouth these days. A man generally given to soporific prose, Broder has been downright venomous lately. And what has put the Benzedrine in Mr. Broder's Ovaltine? Not the fact that President Bush continues to lie about "progress" in the war in Iraq. Or that Dick Cheney continues to lie about pre-invasion links between al Qaeda and Iraq. Or that the Bush Administration has neglected our wounded warriors, ignored the victims of Katrina, potentially obstructed justice by firing US Attorneys who were pursuing GOP wrongdoing. Not even that the Bush Administration lied to the families of Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch, cynically using their blood to distract from their own incompetence and dishonesty.
No, none of this raises Dean Broder's hackles.
He reserves his vitriol for Harry Reid.
Why Reid? Because Reid has been one of the few politicians with the courage to speak the plain, unvarnished truth to power, and the hallmark of Mr. Broder's career has been to suck up to power. Reid calls Bush a liar. Broder can't handle the truth.
In a radio interview Monday, Broder blasted Reid, calling him "bumbling," saying he's an embarrassment, and breaking the news that, "at some point down the road the Democrats are gonna have to have a little caucus and decide how much further they want to carry Harry Reid."
Really? And on what did the self-styled dean of the Washington press corps, base this bombshell? Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Broder just made it up. That's not journalism, it's bloviating - aka Broderizing. In fact, real reporters on Capitol Hill chased down the Broder charge, actually interviewing Democratic senators and their staffs. They found universal support for Reid.

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