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On Broder

by BooMan
Sun Nov 15th, 2009 at 05:21:52 PM EST

I wonder if anyone can pinpoint the moment when David Broder became a Republican hack. That was definitely not my original impression of him. He was always somewhat reserved in his advocacy, but he tended to advocate for things like greater health care access. I think most people were under the impression that he had liberal leanings, if he had leanings at all. Then, around the time that we started to learn about Monica Lewinsky's thong underwear, things began to change with this columnist. I know that he wrote that the Clintons were messing up the Village with their hillbilly ways. Maybe that was the moment. Maybe that was just a warning sign. In any case, his work product now sucks. It's not just that he regurgitates idiotic right-wing talking points. It's that he makes factual errors and foolish arguments. He needs to retire.

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In Rick Pearlstein's Nixonland, way back in 1966 you can find him being all gee-wow about the not-yet-candidate Nixon's not-yet-campaign plane.

So he's been thinking exactly whatever everyone else is thinking for a long, long time.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J.K. Galbraith

by Davis X Machina on Sun Nov 15th, 2009 at 05:27:43 PM EST

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Exactly .. Broder has always been a wanker .. just now with blogs and stuff .. more people know about it ... and can talk and discuss it .. look at his history much easier

by Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle on Sun Nov 15th, 2009 at 06:02:25 PM EST
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Also Timothy Crouse's The Boys on the Bus shows that in 1972 "The Dean" was a Villager of the first degree.

So I don't think that Broder has changed all that much.

by sporkincident (spork_incident@hotmail.com) on Sun Nov 15th, 2009 at 06:12:24 PM EST
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I remember back when Iran-Contra was breaking that Broder wrote a column moaning that the country couldn't withstand another Watergate-style investigation.

As a a former reader of his columns from perhaps the late 1970's, I don't ever remember Broder being particularly liberal. Actually, he never made much of an impression on me at all, so I guess he's been consistently wishy-washy throughout his career. (I canceled my subscription to the WASHINGTON POST a few years ago because of their screwed-up editorial pages, so I don't read Broder anymore.)

by obsess5 on Sun Nov 15th, 2009 at 10:50:34 PM EST

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If Obama makes his decision a month from now, exactly what will have changed in Afghanistan in the intervening month? Taliban takeover - hardly. Afghanistan, like what we turned Iraq into, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is a perpetual conflict. Weeks, months, even years mean NOTHING in the scheme of things in Afghanistan. The ebb and flow is measured at least in decades. Anything less ONLY mean something to the US political circus where the catty gasbags need something to talk foolishly serious about and pretend that they are an important voice on something, when in realty they are one of the most useless, lowest form of societal members there is: deceiving, lying, and misinforming the population. I just hope that this will be resolved without using any same day loans.

by KurtW on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 12:25:34 AM EST

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