David Broder

Ryan Grim

Battle Between David Broder And Harry Reid Heats Up: Broder Comments 'Mind-Boggling'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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David Broder simply doesn't understand the way that today's Senate operates, Jim Manley concluded on Wednesday. Manley, the senior communications advi...

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Jason Linkins

David Broder Causes Confusion With Incomprehensible Health Care Column

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, David Broder, War in Afghanistan, Media Criticism, Media News

David Broder is a Washington Post columnist who's often credited with being the "Dean Of The Washington Press Corps," which sound super fancy and impo...

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Reid Slams Broder: A Retiree Who 'Writes A Column Once In A While'

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Debate, Health Care Vote, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, David Broder, Reid Slams Broder, Reid, Politics News

Speaking from the Senate floor on Saturday, Majority Leader Harry Reid had some harsh words for Washington Post columnist David Broder. Reid was resp...

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How the Media's Proud Know-Nothingism Helped Create the American Idiocracy

David Sirota | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Jackson-Diehl, Afghanistan, David Broder, Jackson Diehl, Idiocracy, Washington Media, Barack Obama, Media News
David Sirota

Bad decision after bad decision after bad decision really has suggested that the last decade has seen the ascension of a full-fledged Idiocracy.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, John Edwards, Moammar Gadhafi, Tom Delay, Toupee, Gadhafi, David Broder, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

This was not a good week for public figures with notable heads of hair. The boyishly coiffed Tom DeLay caused jaws to drop all across America with his rump-shaking cha-cha to "Wild Thing" on Dancing With the Stars. Breck Girl-turned-Cad John Edwards saw his already-tarnished reputation further sullied by the release of details of his affair with Rielle Hunter, including a promised post-Elizabeth rooftop wedding featuring the Dave Matthews Band. And the idiosyncratically maned Donald Trump made headlines by allowing Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to pitch a tent on his Bedford, New York estate. But it was follicly-challenged columnist David Broder who took the prize for the week's most ludicrous act: criticizing President Obama for "his determination to rely on rational analysis, rather than narrow decisions." God forbid. It was enough to make your hair stand on end.

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Why David Broder Is Wrong

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, David Broder, Cia, Accountability, Torture, Politics, CIA Interrogations, Dick Cheney, Eric Holder, George Bush, Politics News
Rep. John Conyers

The decision whether to investigate possible crimes connected to our interrogation programs is simply not a political one.

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Jason Linkins

David Broder Spends Entire Column Contradicting Himself On Torture

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Eugene Robinson, Media Criticism, Dick Cheney, Eric Holder, David Broder, Torture, Media News

Is David Broder having some sort of internal argument with his own brain, on the pages of the Washington Post? Because I'm totally casting Andy Serkis in the movie version of this column!

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Jason Linkins

Sarah Palin: Working Class Hero? (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

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I appreciate that Ross Douthat is looking for a working-class hero for the future GOP of his book, Grand New Party. The sooner he can bring himself f...

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What if Instead of the Nuremberg Trials There Was Only a Truth Commission?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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Jeremy Scahill

As some liberals make the case against a Special Prosecutor, the lawyers who fought for the release of the torture memos push back and explain why prosecutions are the only response.

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Torture is Not About "Winning the Afternoon," OK?

Will Bunch | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Journalists, Bush Administration Torture, Journalism Ethics, Barack Obama Torture, The Politico, Shepard Smith, New York Times, Bybee Impeachment, Barack Obama, David Broder, Investigative Reporting, Torture, Media News
Will Bunch

The torture issue doesn't lend itself to cute little "up" and "down" arrows, to dueling cable shouters "on the right" and "on the left," to all the little devices we in the media use.

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Opining While Intoxicated (A Field Sobriety Test For Broder's Torture Column)

David Quigg | Posted 05.27.2009 | Media

Read More: War Crimes, Newspapers, Pundits, Glenn Greenwald, George W. Bush, Waterboarding, Washington Post, Media News, Torture Memos, David Broder, Torture, Dick Cheney, Media News
David Quigg

Inebriated logic like this from someone of David Broder's seniority and supposed stature makes it easier for serious, curious, civic-minded people to tell themselves that newspapers are expendable.

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Nonsense Pronouncements About Budget Deficits

Robert H. Frank | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Consumption Taxation, Savings, Federal Budget Deficits, John Boehner, Public Investment, David Broder, Trains, Politics News
Robert H. Frank

The two critical steps for thinking more clearly about budget deficits are: first, distinguish between the long run and the short run, and second: examine how borrowed money will be spent.

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President Obama Offers Iran "A Promise of a New Day"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

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Joseph A. Palermo

Obama's promise of a new day in U.S.-Iranian relations must be given the opportunity to bear fruit free from outside intervention.

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Jason Linkins

Broder: Obama 'Gambles' By Attempting To Address Country's Concerns

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

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America's leading advocate of hyper-timid incrementalist bullshit, David Broder, is back with a peach of an op-ed today. Let me lay it on out for you...

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Obama vs. the Media

John McQuaid | Posted 02.22.2009 | Media

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John McQuaid

Obama (correctly, I think) sees the press representing two things that are clear obstacles to his ambitious plans: official Washington and a trivia-obsessed media culture.

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David Broder: The GOP Goes South

Washington Post | David Boder | Posted 01.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Party South, Gop, David Broder, Gop Goes South, Republican Party Future, Republicans, Politics News

As a rule, a new president's choice of a secretary of transportation makes few headlines, even when the appointee is a member of the opposition. In 20...

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David Axelrod: Modern-Day Walter Mitty

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 12.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Press, Obama Transition Team, David Axelrod, Maureen Dowd Barack Obama, Anderson Cooper, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, David Broder, Barack Obama, Home News
Michael L. Millenson

Axelrod started out as a spectator in the boonies. Next thing you know, he's masterminding, and winning, one of the most exciting presidential campaigns in American history.

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Sunday Watch 10-12-08: In Which False Equivalency Struts Its Fraudulent Stuff

Todd Gitlin | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Meet the Press, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Tom Brokaw, David Broder, Dan Balz, Barack Obama, Media News
Todd Gitlin

Once again, Brokaw's round table was a liberal-free zone. He concluded with the idiotic prediction game, John McLaughlin's gift to the game-show-as-phony-sophistication genre.

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What Would Broder Do?

John McQuaid | Posted 10.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Banking Crisis, John McCain, Bipartisanship, Bailout, 2008 Election, David Broder, Media News
John McQuaid

McCain's move doesn't make much logical sense coming on the heels of nearly six weeks of divisive culture war politics. But it amounts to an appeal to one of the most dearly-held big media assumptions.

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David Broder's Twisted 4th of July

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, American Ideals, 4th of July, American History, Civic Education, David Broder, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

We have yet to arrive at the point where we can teach our history in full -- warts and all. Studying "the bonds we share with our fellow citizens" demands we study where and why those bonds have broken down.

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Jason Linkins

Broder Leads Off Column On Gerrymandering WIth Pointless, Distorted Shot At Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media

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David Broder is up in arms about gerrymandering, and has written all about it in the op-ed pages of the Washington Post today. As far as his take on ...

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David Broder Angrily Denounces People Named David Broder; "Journalism Is Being Destroyed By These Horrible Broders," Says Broder

Jonathan Schwarz | Posted 06.21.2008 | Media

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Jonathan Schwarz

David Broder postures as an independent-minded guardian of the DC press corps' conscience, while engaging in exactly the kind of intellectually corrupt Washington insider-dom he deplores.

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The Old Rules Are for White Guys; Obama Needs To Make New Ones

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 06.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Aipac, Chris Suellentrop, George Will, David Broder, Barack Obama, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

In his AIPAC speech Obama chose the old politics, trying out neo-con a neo-con by declaring that Jerusalem should be the undivided capital of Israel. That's not going to work for the black change candidate.

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David Broder, Tony Kornheiser Take Buyouts At Washington Post

Huffington Post | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Tony Kornheiser, David Broder Buyout, Tony Kornheiser Buyout, David Broder, Washington Post Buyouts, Media News

Two big names have accepted buyouts at the Washington Post today, with both veteran political columnist David Broder and sports columnist Tony Kornhei...

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Jason Linkins

David Broder Finally Admits Mistake On Bush Prediction

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Washington Post, Predictions, Broderism, David Broder, George W. Bush, Politics News

Washington Post columnist David Broder is not well liked on the lefty blogosphere, mainly because he is so in the tank for Bush and Karl Rove that his...

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