tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3872151744791872604..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: Death of the Anti-Gonzodriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-88391440197882930562011-03-20T15:31:40.716-05:002011-03-20T15:31:40.716-05:00When I remember Broder, it's less from what he...When I remember Broder, it's less from what he wrote than from his regular appearances on television. And I remember his affect more than his words: pompous, patronizing, "I've spoken. Case closed."ScarabusRedivivushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09568476339485344159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5693237465368447942011-03-20T11:41:10.979-05:002011-03-20T11:41:10.979-05:00@ Anonymous: My takeaway from the piece is that t...@ Anonymous: My takeaway from the piece is that the writer assumes that readers of this blog are all too familiar with his Broder's oeuvre. It would be superfluous and depressing to shovel out the more egregious quotes.<br />"Unless you want to rest your argument solely on Ms. Quinn's accuracy." Since Broder and Quinn worked at the same paper, and since he had ample opportunity to field a corrective response, we may very safely assume that the quote is accurate. As a troll who supports Broder, how did you get permission to impugn the integrity of Sally Quinn? I guess we know why you're anonymous.<br />As I think back on one of Broder's more pandering, awful profile pieces in which he waxes fondly on a meal of wild quail at Karl Rove's cabin, I can only imagine that now he is eating crow with the <i>real</i> Satan.Jay Schiavonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04575283403103183391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36231271779730359842011-03-20T04:33:41.472-05:002011-03-20T04:33:41.472-05:00"I come to bury Caesar
Not to parse him"..."I come to bury Caesar<br />Not to parse him"<br /><br />Magnificent!''filabolonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-59271598873829123122011-03-17T00:01:51.598-05:002011-03-17T00:01:51.598-05:00I come to bury Caesar
Not to parse himI come to bury Caesar<br />Not to parse himdriftglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-66840274800377653502011-03-16T23:39:58.732-05:002011-03-16T23:39:58.732-05:00Wouldn't your judgment of Broder's work as...Wouldn't your judgment of Broder's work as toxic, dishonest and syphilitic be strengthened if you presented, say, one (1) example of something Broder had actually written that merited those epithets -- as opposed to all the secondary commentary you cut-and-pasted?<br /> A purported quote from a piece by Sally Quinn doesn't count. (Unless you want to rest your argument solely on Ms. Quinn's accuracy.) <br /> You're critiquing someone who wrote thousands of columns and articles. Surely you could have read, analyzed and cited some of his actual syphilitic work?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64044618468537120812011-03-16T18:09:59.405-05:002011-03-16T18:09:59.405-05:00oligarchs, lunatics and rubes...
Or evil, crazy a...<i>oligarchs, lunatics and rubes...</i><br /><br />Or evil, crazy and stupid. Nice formulation! <br /><br />You and Wolcott nailed Broder. (Jon Swift penned a classic years ago, too.) Broder had many compatriots in the evil of banal, inaccurate, gutless reporting, but he set the tone. No reporter ever did more to avoid calling things straight, in granting conservatives and Republicans unearned respectability, in gullibly taking at face value crap that Newt Gingrich and other proven scoundrels said. He believed "real" Americans were conservative, and somehow, "bipartisanship" for him always meant, "do whatever the Republicans want." The man's moral compass was so warped he believed that Clinton should resign for lying about a blow job, but Bush shouldn't for lying us into a war. He viewed hippies as radical – but not Bush and Cheney's authoritarian power grabs. The most charitable view of Broder is that his views on how the world worked ossified long ago, and he simply could not write any other narrative, reality be damned. But I think he was far more culpable in his own bland-blind-and-mute performance, beyond even specific faults such as falsely claiming that Muskie cried, and regarding Gerald Ford, who cut a deal to pardon Nixon, as "one of the most decent human beings in Washington." People <i>paid</i> to cover politics have flat-out <i>refused</i> to report on the central storyline of the past 30-50 years, the increasing plutocratic, reckless and insane Republican Party. No one who cared about democracy and good governance could have missed it. And Broder epitomized that willful, eager, desperate ignorance. <br /><br />Wherever a Mara Liasson called a conservative a "centrist" or "moderate," wherever a Tim Russert treated a warmongering Dick Cheney with doe-eyed innocence, wherever a Peggy Noonan clucked about "civility," a Mark Halperin declared "good news for John McCain" and a Cokie Roberts shouted, "But the Democrats" - that's where you'll find Dave Brode.Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5970426027297817952011-03-15T22:23:57.584-05:002011-03-15T22:23:57.584-05:00I saw Broder deliver the commencement address at B...I saw Broder deliver the commencement address at Bradley University in 2008. Aside from the normal platitudes, the speech was a not-so-thinly veiled screed ripping the baby boomers for failing America, ostensibly filtered through the lens of the upcoming 2008 election. <br /><br />Before this day, I had <i>heard</i> of the phenomenon of "losing the crowd" but I had never actually <i>witnessed</i> it. As he got into the tone-deaf heart of it, I could hear a murmur rippling through the basketball arena. A lot of boomer grandparents and even late boomer parents were in that room, and the perfunctory applause at the end would have withered anyone with the slightest bit of self-awareness. I wish I could remember the text or find a video somewhere...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64911385408935174792011-03-14T23:31:29.147-05:002011-03-14T23:31:29.147-05:00Late to the game, been very busy lately. All I ca...Late to the game, been very busy lately. All I can say is the Good Doktor would be proud, DG.<br /><br />Just beautiful.<br /><br />Selah.<br />CAGaryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-80441599044045779512011-03-11T11:32:20.046-06:002011-03-11T11:32:20.046-06:00Here is the nastiest insult I can inflict on anyon...Here is the nastiest insult I can inflict on anyone in the word-pimping business: I cannot in all honesty tell you with certainty that I either have or haven't ever read anything by Broder. <br /><br />What I can say is that I have yet to hear anything that even dimly recommends his writing as an object for my curiosity or my time & effort.<br /><br />Save us from the immoderate Moderates: their version of fairness is as helpful to the future as Solomon's sword was to babies.jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21301999777114405662011-03-10T23:55:15.735-06:002011-03-10T23:55:15.735-06:00Ya didn't disappoint me .
BustedYa didn't disappoint me .<br /><br />BustedPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15695733883033137146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21475163165248439822011-03-10T23:33:47.442-06:002011-03-10T23:33:47.442-06:00This is really very good. Why isn't this in a...This is really very good. Why isn't this in a national magazine somewhere?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-42458397421040293252011-03-10T23:15:59.579-06:002011-03-10T23:15:59.579-06:00The interesting thing to me while living in today&...The interesting thing to me while living in today's truly tragic time is the perpetrators being labeled "tragic" figures when they are mainly deluded and pathetic.<br /><br />That this guy continued to be "venerated" on the MSM during this decade was the tragedy.<br /><br />And he hadn't been able to actually "report" on any story since he lost his mind over the Bush/Cheney War Party's relevance.<br /><br /><i>And he completely fucking blew it.</i><br /><br />P.S. As the fossils die off, I foresee the Time of Driftglass aborning.<br /><br />SCirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-12609745198139423242011-03-10T20:53:24.303-06:002011-03-10T20:53:24.303-06:00As Mr. Burns of The Simpsons would say, Excellent....As Mr. Burns of The Simpsons would say, Excellent." <br /><br />There really is a bigotry in the stubbornness to hold onto the idea that we live in a two party system, representing legitimate popular views. The reality is a criminal state with (most) Democrats playing the part of the Stockholm Syndrome victim.marcus IInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-81001194603334393032011-03-10T16:51:11.031-06:002011-03-10T16:51:11.031-06:00I don't know what it is about Broder's gen...I don't know what it is about Broder's generation and holding a grudge,but boy do they excel in that department.My Father came from that era and never got over the whole "Dirty Fucking Hippie"thing.I have a vivid recollection of him taking one of my brother's Bob Dylan albums off the shelf,calmly opening the front door and launching it Frisbee style about 100 yards up the street.It caught a good cross wind and sailed in a spectacular arc over the distant roof tops before disappearing forever in a final flash of reflected light.Bluesbornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02559455092277721670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-16097169357496090392011-03-10T16:27:00.029-06:002011-03-10T16:27:00.029-06:00And Broder's "declining years (which enco...And Broder's "declining years (which encompassed all of the 21st Century and a big chunk of the end of the 20th" were all too well represented PBS ( see below.)<br /><br />John PumaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-3514157127701960732011-03-10T16:07:07.196-06:002011-03-10T16:07:07.196-06:00As a Wiccan, my religion compels me to show respec...As a Wiccan, my religion compels me to show respect for the deceased. So, I will say, with sincerity, may in his next life and next lifetime may he find the peace, compassion, and enlightenment that eluded him in this life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-66680859438710369362011-03-10T16:01:17.394-06:002011-03-10T16:01:17.394-06:00Really. Chicago Heights. My hometown. Must be why ...Really. Chicago Heights. My hometown. Must be why I fled West as soon as I was old enough. Shit, my parents must have gone to school with him. Oh well. He sure won't be missed.<br /><br />Here's one dirty fucking hippy saying, "Buh-bye!!"bgobnoreply@blogger.com