Sick of my whiny, bitchy posts about the Post’s whiny, bitchy columnist David Broder? Well, skip this one, then. In today’s bitch, Dave comes up with a headline that must have had his blood a-pumpin’, “An Early Drubbing for Obama.” The awkward, “No, we won’t, okay, maybe we will” response of Senate Democrats to the…
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The Revenge of Krugman
Paul Krugman is apparently tired of being called “shrill” while wearing his “columnist” hat, particularly, so it would seem, when the label is applied by the Washington Post’s own David S. “Massively Boring” Broder. Since I read Dave’s column on a fitful basis, I’ve never caught him in the act of dissing Paul, but presumably…
David Broder is a liar
Ken Silverstein blows a massive hole in David Broder’s credibility right here. The trouble started with reports that Big Dave was giving speeches at political fund-raising events and lobbbyists’ conventions. Broder refused to speak to Silverstein about this, because reporters don’t have to answer questions, and, when asked about it by Washington Post omsbudsman Deborah…
That’s so Broder Dept: The Cat Is Back!
The word from Dave: Unelected conservative ideologues—such as Rush Limbaugh and George F. Will—can mutter in frustration, but Republican politicians recognize what was written here as long ago as last Dec. 2: “If the Republican Party really wanted to hold on to the White House in 2009 … it would grit its teeth, swallow its…
Richard Holbrooke, acting bold, sort of
Richard Holbrooke, former ambassador to the United Nations back in the Clinton days, doesn’t mince words when describing the Bush Administration’s efforts to eliminate the poppy crop in Afghanistan: “the program, which costs around $1 billion a year, may be the single most ineffective program in the history of American foreign policy. It’s not just…
Broder gone wild!
David Broder, the MSM’s squarest square, totally bitch slaps poor Al From, long suffering head of the Democratic Leadership Council, who’s constantly getting his butt kicked by the people who hate David Broder! But it’s Broder himself wielding the stiletto this time: “Al From, the head of the Democratic Leadership Council and a longtime defender…