Having opinions that differ from me means that you are a worse leader than a proven serial liar and incompetent boob.
*** Update ***
It is worse than even David Broder imagined- Harry Reid is working with the Taliban.
*** Update #2 ****
Ouch.
by John Cole| 10 Comments
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Having opinions that differ from me means that you are a worse leader than a proven serial liar and incompetent boob.
*** Update ***
It is worse than even David Broder imagined- Harry Reid is working with the Taliban.
*** Update #2 ****
Ouch.
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DougJ
I’ve taken a lot of flak here for defending Robert Novak, but his column today really deserves to be read side-by-side with Broder’s.
And then tell me again that it’s the rightie pundits and not the “centrist” ones who are destroying the country. I want to hear you all say it.
Zifnab
So let me get this straight. Reid is a liar and a flip-flopper because Schumer decided to play the pantywaste card and waffle out of Reid’s statement.
What? Is he now a liar by proxy now? If I claim “David Broder said, ‘Reid is assuredly not a man who misses many opportunities to put his foot in his mouth’, but what he ment was ‘I think Reid has sexy feet,'” can I then claim that David Broder has a giant foot fetish?
I just want to be clear on the rules here. Apparently, things you didn’t say CAN, in fact, be used against you in the court of public opinion. Not the can of worms I’d like to open up, personally, but apparently Broder is getting full-bore behind the idea.
demimondian
OK, DougJ. Let’s look carefully at the Novak column. “Democratic attacks”? How is that at all different from Broder? Bloch uder attack because he “hired too many Catholics”? BS — Bloch is under attack because he hired unqualified religious foxes to watch the henhouse, and because he publicly refused to enforce the law, based on his own religious beliefs.
No, I’m not letting Novak off the hook.
DougJ
I’ve been reading too much Bob Somersby as of late, so you’ll have to forgive anything annoying that I say.
Hyperion
the world keeps getting stranger and stranger….
what i find extremely encouraging is that the 27 pages (as of now) of comments on broder’s BS are unrelentingly negative while also being very substantive and rather polite.
if this is a blogswarm, i say let’s have more of the same.
after viewing Moyer’s piece last night on Buying the War, i conclude that only a very dumb person would put much stock in what comes from the MSM. that was some devastating piece of journalism, Mr. Moyers. the footage of the scripted press conference was astonishing.
q. where would the gonzales story be if only the MSM coverage were available?
jeff
Loving the comment section on the Broder article. Have not seen one positive one yet!
Tony J
The Novak piece is just more of the same from the guy who continues to bring you “Valerie Plame was not a covert agent” half a decade after the CIA said she was.
His line in the article is basically that there’s nothing at all to see here. Nothing illegal happened, but Gonezo has to go because of his terrible performance before Congress. For Novak, all El Residente Bush is ‘guilty’ of is responding to partisan attacks from “the likes of Reid” with a gutsy and rather noble effort to shield his longtime friend from the back-stabbing ingratitude of Washington politics. There’s even a shoehorned-in “But Clinton Did It First!” jackalope to keep the 28% Club happy.
Novak appears to want to provide the snotty ingrate in the White House with a face-saving excuse for ditching Gonezo. “Now George, we know that you’re a brave, brave boy, and everyone is so proud of you for trying to protect your friend from those nasty old bullies, but Alberto has to go home for his dinner now. You just say bye-bye and I’ll take you and Karl to McDonalds for a treat. How does that sound, Champ?”
Can you tell that Novak pisses me off?
sglover
Novak’s a scumbag, but as far as I know he’s always had lots of reservations about Bush in general and the Iraq adventure in particular. So it’s not all that surprising when he comes out with the occasional screed that’s less than worshipful toward the Idiot Prince.
His colleague Broder, however, seems determined to emulate the same kind of public self-debasement that made the NYT’s A.M. Rosenthal almost pathetic, by the end — “almost” because Rosenthal’s pro-Israel propaganda was so hysterical and deranged that it was hard to feel much sympathy for the guy. It’s hard to feel sorry for Broder, either. Nobody’s forcing him to attach his name to complete horseshit, day after day….
grumpy realist
“…the Hindenburg of pundits…”
Ouch. That’s gotta hurt.
HyperIon
if only he would explode in NJ…