BroderChat!
Posted on May 4th, 2007 by Brad
If he weren’t making so much money as one of the nation’s top opinion-makers, I’d really feel sorry for the guy here. Getting slapped around like this by a bunch of sarcastic jerks such as myself can’t be much fun.
This just made my day.
David S. Broder: I think Republicans are on the losing side, and the wrong side, on all of the issues you mention, and I think they will pay a price for it in the coming eleftion.
Eleftion! Excellent.
Freudian slip. On my keyboard ‘s’ and ‘f’ are typed with different fingers.
This was the saddest:
Ono, Pa.: Is it possible for one political party to be absolutely wrong? Or must both sides always compromise?
David S. Broder: There are times when one party has a much better grasp than the other on the country’s needs or the demands of history. But when you have a 51-49 Senate and a closely divided House, the only way to legislate is by compromise and searching out consensus. When the voters swing one way or the other, then perhaps one party can move an agenda by itself. But not now.
Mr. Broder, as far as I know, does not legislate.
Man, that’s sad. Why must the WaPo embarrass that confused old man by letting him speak in public?
He does not understand what is being asked of him, but he pretends to have sufficient mental faculties.
For shame, WaPo. For shame.
i wish someone would just say clearly: “mr. broder, either at least 3 of the 50 senators who signed the letter to the washington are lying, or you are. did any source who is a sitting senator specifically say to you that harry reid had to go? if so, how do you square that with them signing a letter to the opposite effect a week later?”
I find this exchange revealing:
Does he read non-U.S. papers?
No Broders across borders!
Wow, a hooker? Damn.
Hon. Brad, you are too kind. Broder deserves the slapping he got, and more. He deserves to face the 3Bulls in a free-for-all Pork Snorkel. He deserves to have Carrot Top perform at his sexual encounters. He deserves to have George W. Bush hired to manage his favorite baseball team. He needs Bernard Kerik to visit him once a week with a friendly ‘reminder’. 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.
But of all those things, I would love to see his job outsourced to an Bangalore teenager who is adept with Google and a map.
David S. Broder: Perhaps because I have come to have deep respect for the wisdom of the American people
Is that why you continue to belittle and discount the 70% of americans who support the democratic plan and want the troops out? What a f*cking tool.
what a smug ass.
Freudian slip. On my keyboard ’s’ and ‘f’ are typed with different fingers.
Be that as it may, the word is spelled “election,” not “elestion.”
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 . . .
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.
The Dude can’t spell.
For a professional writer, that sucks ass.
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.
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.
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.
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
Hopefully, Broder will retire when his name is found on the D.C. Madam’s client list…
After the chat, Joe Liarman and I are going for bipartisan pony rides!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
I continue to believe they have abler leaders in their ranks.
Abler? I thought this guy was a writer.
Hopefully, Broder will retire when his name is found on the D.C. Madam’s client list…
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?
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.