I’ll never understand why columnists enjoy being bitch-slapped by wingers so much.
Recently, I wrote a column commending President Obama for his long-range vision and for the patience to wait, beyond his own term if necessary, for the rewards to appear.
The column really irritated a reader in Maryland, who unloaded on Washington Post ombudsman Andy Alexander, who sent the complaint on to me.
[…..]Aside from the “fellow travelers” phrase in the last paragraph, which struck me as a cheap shot redolent of 1950s-style anti-communism, I really admired the letter and thought the writer was making valid and important points.
Why not just hire a hooker to dress up as Sarah Palin and beat you with a riding crop?
And it goes without saying that when hippies write angry letters, it just goes to show that how shrill, angry, and out-of-step the left is.
rob!
Now that’s a banner ad I’d like to see!
erlking
I admire your group’s principles and I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter
beltane
You did it. You made me click that link because I just had to know for certain that it was David Broder. In his world, it is only those scary pot smoking hippies on the left who are capable of incivility. Back in 1967 he once saw a hippie girl with hairy legs and this scarred him for life.
DougJ
@beltane:
He’s written a series of pretty good columns, so I think it’s okay to link to him today.
Aaron
It’s all about being “the right kind of folk.”
Earnestness steeped in ignorance is good old fashioned Americana . . . but woe be unto those that lean even slightly to the left
Violet
Because in their world wingers are the “adults” and anyone on the left is a crazy, commie, pinko hippie and thus dangerous. They’re still fighting the Vietnam war.
I’m seeing occasional glimmers of recognition in the media that it’s the teabagging wingnuts who aren’t acting like grownups these days, while people like the President seem to be rational and trustworthy adults. But only hints of it here or there.
Maybe some day they’ll realize that the world has changed. But until then they still seem to like being set straight by “the adults.”
El Cid
Sane people would see the “fellow travelers” line not as an exception, but as an indication that the writer might as well have mentioned their understanding of the Hollow Earth.
Mark S.
So Broder’s on board for war with Iran. I can’t tell if he wants to attack now or wait a year.
The Dangerman
Why not just hire
a hooker to dress up asSarah Palin to dress up as a hooker and beat you with a riding crop?Fix’d.
geg6
Much as I like to bag on Broder (and quite deservedly so), he’s actually been saying reasonable things lately and, if you look past the overly deferential surface, he seems to disagree quite a bit with the wingnut. From almost any other columnist, I’d point and laugh. But for Broder, this is as much of a smackdown he’s ever likely to give a whining GOPer whose fee fees he hurt by giving our blackety black black Islamofacistcommie preznit any credit whatsoever. So I’ll applaud and THEN point and laugh.
Church Lady
Doug, I don’t have to wait for a hippie to write an angry letter. All I have to do is read Balloon Juice.
Mark S.
@The Dangerman:
You got a $100 K lying around? That’s Sarah’s hourly rate.
TenguPhule
Why blow $100 on an imitation when $100,000 will get you the real thing?
Brachiator
Speaking of which, I saw the recent Playboy pictorial of Ashley Dupre and can only say, “Oh, yes, Elliot Spitzer!” She’s not a 5 diamond hooker, but not bad at all.
As for Broder and other pundits (often just another class of whores), they seem to be slowly finding out that you can’t have play dates with wingers, because they don’t have any safe words to pull back from their excesses.
Wile E. Quixote
@DougJ
Because Broder would rather have a hooker dressed up as Roy Cohn beating him with a riding crop.
SiubhanDuinne
James Wolcott is hardly a winger, but he does a nice job of bitch-slapping half a dozen or more pundits, columnists, and assorted bloviators who toy with running for office, despite (usually) a stunning absence of qualifications: Steve Forbes, Mort Zuckerman, Lou Dobbs, Tweety, et al. Here’s Wolcott’s pithy description of Larry Kudlow:
The title of the VF piece, you’ll all be amused to note, is “Hot-Air Balloons.”
vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/05/wolcott-201005
Comrade Javamanphil
@Mark S.: How many chickens is 100k or will Sarah only except salmon or wolf pelts?
WereBear
@Wile E. Quixote: That image is no way for me to start my day.
Comrade Javamanphil
Sigh…obviously that was supposed to be “accept”…more coffee lest I become a teebager…stat!
Joy
Please warn me before I am about to click on a link for Broder. It’s too frikking early in the morning for that.