Comments on: BroderChat!

By: M. Bouffant

M. Bouffant — Sun, 06 May 2007 05:00:23 +0000

Dang! Conventional Wisdom, my sweet patoot! He should be called into someone’s office and asked to explain most of his answers, or have it pointed out to him how & why he’s an idiot & being let go, at half his pension. I mean, he’s not even a good typist.

By: Anne Laurie

Anne Laurie — Sat, 05 May 2007 23:20:04 +0000

Hopefully, Broder will retire when his name is found on the D.C. Madamâ€™s client listâ€¦

Her employee list, maybe, but Broder cut off his own balls so long ago that he can’t even remember what sexual urges used to feel like. And why would any Repub pay for Broder’s services, when they can get them for free?

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Sat, 05 May 2007 18:18:07 +0000

I continue to believe they have abler leaders in their ranks.

Abler? I thought this guy was a writer.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:50:36 +0000

Wow, what a tool. The guy gets paid for telling everybody what (he thinks) they should be thinking, but when asked to explain why, he begs off with “no, no, think for yourself.” I lost count of the number of forelock-tugging, “aw, shucks, ma’am, I ain’t no smarter’n anybody else” answers he gave.

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 05 May 2007 12:05:53 +0000

Hah! I’m totally down with Billy Pilgrim on this but have one quibble
“He deserves to have Carrot Top perform at his sexual encounters.”
True but did you get a look at the pic? His sexual encounters are undoubtedly only with himself. Hell, he probably turns himself down even after a few drinks.

By: ahem

ahem — Sat, 05 May 2007 07:15:33 +0000

And who shows up to talk about Obama? None other than Sally fucking Quinn, who doesn’t quite understand how much she’s embarrassing herself by essentially saying ‘y’know, sometimes I forget he’s black. And that’s a good thing.’

By: WeikuBoy

WeikuBoy — Sat, 05 May 2007 05:51:23 +0000

OMG, please please PLEASE follow Essbee’s link just above to the Sally Quinn post from 1998. It reads like a freakin’ laundry list of all the Beltway assholes who, before they led cheers for the occupation of Iraq, led cheers for the resignation of America’s last democratically-elected president. Seriously, they’re all there, from Smokin’ Joe Lieberman to Andrea Mitchell to the Dean of East Egg himself; to wit:

“Washington’s insider press corps has shown little pity for [President Clinton]. ‘The judgment is harsher in Washington,’ says The Post’s Broder [as opposed to the rest of the nation, which just wanted to move on from the "scandal", if any, of oral sex between consenting adults]. ‘We don’t like being lied to.’

Except when it comes to being lied to by the Bushes of Kennebunkport, apparently. They are, after all, people like us, Daisy. Yes, Tom, she replied.

By: Dr Zen

Dr Zen — Sat, 05 May 2007 04:09:12 +0000

Dude, I can’t feel sorry for him. First question up, the Qer asks whether, given that every poll shows that “liberal” positions are mainstream, he should stop suggesting that the Dems bend over for the wingnuts. And doesn’t he seem to have a skewed perception brought about by never leaving Washington. Broder’s answer was that he “disagrees” and the polls contradict the “conventional wisdom”. What teh fuck? The questioner just told him that the polls show the “conventional wisdom” to be horseshit. I didn’t bother reading any more. We have plenty of this kind of fucktard in the UK. They mostly write for the Guardian, talking about what the “people” want without ever leaving Hampstead.

By: essbee

essbee — Sat, 05 May 2007 02:03:23 +0000

Little Rock, Ark.: “But I am unwilling to assume that I am so much smarter than the voting public that I will dismiss as worthless someone they have chosen as president of the United States. ”

Did you have these thoughts when it came to Bill Clinton?

David S. Broder: Yes.

The thoughts were the same just, sorta, different…

“He came in here and he trashed the place,” says Washington Post columnist David Broder, “and it’s not his place.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/quinn110298.htm

By: FlipYrWhig

FlipYrWhig — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:36:28 +0000

they will pay a price for it in the coming eleftion

In his dotage, Broder is defaulting to the typographical habits he learned from his first journalistic gig: Poor Richard’s Almanack.

By: Sam Thornton

Sam Thornton — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:27:04 +0000

I don’t wonder that Broder, who is an obvious dunce, enjoyed a woodshed moment. What puzzles me is why the Post continues to let him waste ink. Surely some management type would eventually recognize that one so pathetically inadequate was an albatross. Could it be possible that management at the Post is actually dumber than Broder?

Imagine what the questions Mr. Broder chose not to answer might be. Softballs seemed likely to be few and far between.

By: senile old punditâ„¢Â³Â²Â®Â©

senile old punditâ„¢Â³Â²Â®Â© — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:21:05 +0000

After the chat, Joe Liarman and I are going for bipartisan pony rides!

By: AkaDad

AkaDad — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:19:28 +0000

Hopefully, Broder will retire when his name is found on the D.C. Madam’s client list…

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:03:22 +0000

he wisdom of the American people, who, in 2004, chose to reelect George W. Bush as president.

The fear mongering, cheap Rovian smears,, the voter suppression and a Democratic candidate with all the charm and charisma of a partially deflated feces-streaked blow-up doll in no way should enter into the calculation. The American people chose to elect Al Gore in 2000, so I wonder if maybe your pony is really a very large mutant zombie dog…

mikey

By: va

va — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:47:33 +0000

Why is it so hard for you to admit that Bush is, in fact, a uniquely bad president who has led the Republican party into a ditch that no blue-ribbon commission of respected elder statesmen from both parties can save us from?

David S. Broder: Perhaps because I have come to have deep respect for the wisdom of the American people, who, in 2004, chose to reelect George W. Bush as president.

Shorter David Broder: Me and my opinions are democratically elected, and change every four years.

By: RandomObserver

RandomObserver — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:07:12 +0000

He dodges questions about Reid and who dissaproves of him at least twice.

As Glenn Greenwald effectively points out, these guys have no problems spouting an opinion but they always back down when challenged. They know their shit is indefensible when you get down to nuts and bolts.

He claimed many dems were annoyed with Reid, but could not name a single one or explain the letter from the Senate Dems. He then went on to claim that he was merely expressing his *own* dissaproval of Reid, which is of course not at all related to what he actually wrote when he claimed that Democrats were annoyed with Reid.

By: Legalize

Legalize — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:19:53 +0000

The fact that Broder is a “big fan” of David Brooks, perhaps the most dense of all of the elitist Beltway pundits, is all I need to know about the man.

By: james

james — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:10:10 +0000

The Dude can’t spell.

For a professional writer, that sucks ass.

By: psyberdawg

psyberdawg — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:54:08 +0000

He deserves a colonoscopy with an IMAX camera. He needs a sound rogering from Jeff Gannon. A permanent burning case of hemorrhoids would not be excessive.

Billy Pilgrim

The latter would likely follow the first two.

In fairness, Broder would prefer Gannon to be paired with a Democratic male prostitute (9″, cut), for a truly bi-partisan bi-buggering.

By: Smiling Mortician

Smiling Mortician — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:31:01 +0000

I was about to say that I didn’t find the questioners particularly sarcastic or jerky, and that I thought they actually treated Broder with more deference and respect than he deserves, but Billy Pilgrim said it soooo much better . . .