Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Broder; Says Sanford Critics Should MYOB
David Broder in the Washington (Republican Propaganda) Post:
The saga of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and his Argentine romance has been such ripe fodder for the gossip mills that the essential governmental question has almost been forgotten.
Whether Sanford can resolve the mess he has made of his personal life is of little concern to anyone but the people involved.
But when he disappeared for five days, telling no one in his administration or even his security detail where he had gone, he did something totally irresponsible. Had any kind of emergency occurred, South Carolina would have been leaderless.
At the moment Sanford abandoned his duties in secret pursuit of private pleasure, he in effect tendered his resignation.
The Legislature should insist he follow through on it.
Now while I agree with the sentiment that Sanford abandoned his job to follow his little brain, er...heart to Argentina, I'm struck by the difference in Broder's tone from his coverage of Bill Clinton's infidelities:
One of the most revealing statements Broder -- or, perhaps, any political journalist -- has ever made came in 1998. In November 1998, after nearly a year of public opinion polls showing, basically, that people liked Bill Clinton and wanted the Lewinsky investigation to just go away, and of the Washington journalist/pundit crowd vehemently disagreeing, the Post published an article by Sally Quinn attempting to explain the disconnect (which lives on to this day).
Quinn famously quoted Broder explaining why the "Washington Establishment" -- which under anybody's definition includes both Broder and Quinn -- was so angry at Clinton: "He came in here and he trashed the place ... and it's not his place."
Broder's implication -- that Washington was his place, not the president's -- is arrogant enough. But Broder's other comment speaks volumes: "The judgment is harsher in Washington. We don't like being lied to."
What a difference ten years can make. Of course, it has nothing to do with Sanford being a Republican, does it, Dean Broder?
Just checking.
Some stuff you can't make up!
I asked my boss: "Mr. Slate, if I took a long weekend without arranging for someone to cover my duties, would I have to resign? I mean, ignoring the fact that I lied about where I was going, lied to my subordinates, lied to my wife, may have used company funds in the past to arrange my rendevous, would I have to resign? I mean, after all, this is my soul mate. If I did all this, would I have to resign?"
Mr. Slate: "No, you wouldn't have to resign. You'd be FIRED!!!
Not only would I be fired, but I'd probably lose my nursing license which would definitely hamper my attempts to find another job.
Someone, please tell me, who, besides Broder himself, really gives a shit what Broder says?
Republicans never lose a thing ,, But in fact ---their lies , deceit and corruption leads they to better jobs and wealth.
Looks as if the democrats likes like what they have seem by the republican policies , because now they are following their every footstep..
I believe Emanuel or someone is leading Obama down the path for a 3 Bush term...
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My point exactly. In no other job, in any other scenario, would you be able to go AWOL for five days, return (well tanned I might add), weeping furiously and expect...no demand to keep your job! There are different rules for those in charge than for the rest of us. And, while I've always felt the infidelity was less of an issue, the fact that you have to go M.I.A to get some, screams instability to me. He shouldn't be allowed to resign. He should be fired!
DeniseD
http://reallybadboss.com/?s=sanford
You mendacious Beltway Bullies really need to get a clue. Your singular reality is your supreme arrogance and absolute belief in your own infallibility. Sanford needs to be held accountable for his bizarre actions that disparage and compromise our political system---just as you should with your arrogant and condescending "commentary."
Get a clue Broder, we don't like being lied to by a pack of smug, all knowing insular Beltway jerks masquerading as journalists.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
--David Broder
Study the symptoms not the virus...
We much prefer to do the lying ourselves.
Glenn Greenwald, Sunday April 26, 2009 10:34 EDT
Snip - I read David Broder's truly wretched screed yesterday -- in which he demands immunity for Bush officials from investigation and prosecution and attacks those who advocate accountability --
[ http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/0... ]
Amended: Whoops... :-)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
On top of being a supreme hypocrite, this senile bastard is a bush apologist of the worst kind.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
why most people like to retire at 65. Any older and our brains start misfiring. And this guy is almost 80, he must only have one cylinder in working order. What a buffoon.
There are a lot of people who are still vital into their 80s and 90s. One example: Daniel Schorr. Walter Cronkite can't run the 1500 in four minutes anymore, but when you listen to him talk, he talks sense.
No, what matters is the quality of the material that you have to start with. Schorr and Cronkite are like aged wood. By comparison, Broder is plywood: very little fiber held together with poorly manufactured glue. If he were "in the marketplace," he'd be an inferior product.
Reason #612 to delete the Washington comPost from your favorites and bookmarks. You'll be happier for it.
but the odds are against it. I am making a general statement that many people slow down in their 70's and 80' and this idiot has all the symptons.
Many older people are still lucid and vital. Their age doesn't matter. It depends on the person. Bob Dylan (68 years old and just released another album), Clint Eastwood (79, and is working on a new film), and Manoel de Oliveira (a Portuguese filmmaker who just turned 100 and is still making films).
As for Broder, he's probably been an idiot his whole life. He's been full of it for a long time, and it's not because of his age. It's because of his arrogance, hypocrisy, and his contempt for us non-villagers.
man...what happened to the days when a pol could fuck around in peace?
kennedy was banging hookers and starlets left and right, and the press kept their mouths shut
i dont care what these guys do...but i wish they would just shut up about their holier than thou attitudes
whats worse, when we finally get a prez that really loves his wife, and apparently enjoys sleeping with her, they bash him for taking her out on a date
Corporations have made news a product. Production can't be halted due to mere dignity, decorum or privacy.
it really boils down to this.
Goofy in love Sanford was elected to perform a job by the, it would seem, mislead people of South Carolina. He shirked his very important duties of said job to go spend some time boning a woman who was not his wife. Beyond the fact that the man is a phenomenal hypocrite he left his state in a precarious position. I could care less what he does with his dick, that's his and his wife's problem, I do care that he's a lying, hypocritical fuck and that he ran, and ran, and ran his mouth about what an awesome moral person he was and that was all obviously bullshit.
You know, I would have had the same problem if Clinton would have decided to leave the U.S. for five days without telling anyone and leaving no way of finding him for the purpose of getting his hummer in an exotic locale, but at least he continued to work and was at least a multi-tasker, getting his bj while in his office and apparently continuing to work after that (I'm being snarky here).
with Clinton, was that his actions could have opened him up to blackmail or worse, an enemy agent infiltration. It's slightly far-fetched, but I bet if the right-whiners had focused on that aspect rather than their holier than thou moral BS, they may have gotten him out of office. But they focused just on the sex act. Any what we need to do here is focus on these right-whiny hypocrites actions' consequences, not on the act itself.
Blackmail only works if the target is desperate to hide something. For my buddy Bill, well, everyone knew long before he took office that he liked the women. And nobody really cared. Just about the only response that making one of his affairs public would be either, "Thinkin' with his pecker again," or "Damn, you'd think the president could do better than that." Or, of course, "Well, I'd hit that, too."
And if whatever bad guy du'jour has infiltrated the White House to the point of having an agent working in the West Wing, I'm thinking there are a lot easier ways they could get information than giving the Prez a BJ.
The old 'Will you two get a room.'
Next time just make sure it's in South Carolina not Argentina.
That's Sanford and Maria get a room.
Not Sanford and Broder.
On second thought, by the sound of Broder, they might have already.
when you have to outsource your mistress.
In the history of DC punditry has anyone ever lost their job just because they are always either wrong or lying or both.
What a tool this Broder is, or is it what a Broder this tool is?
Papers that carry Broder's column like to advertise him as a centrist, but he's not. He's always been right of center and that leaning has only increased as he's grown older.
Wasn't Broder considered irrelevant a long, loooooooong, time ago? He's like some weird, eccentric uncle whom we sit around listening to, eyes rolling, simply out of courtesy.
That's for sure.
Broder is a right-wing hack who does a great job of masking his views, passing them off as "mainstream" and "centrist."
He's the biggest journalistic snake oil dealer ever.
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Study the symptoms not the virus...
stenciled on the sides? He looks creepy.
love the new middle name, Nicole. they earned it.
Now it doesn't matter if you mix up the WaPoo with the Moonie Times.
me-oww!
Is Broder mad because he didn't get a BJ from Lewinsky, or because HE didn't get to blow Clinton?!?!
David Broder; always wrong, always hypocritical, and an over-the-hill has-been, whose relevance disappeared before his hair.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
Do you need any more proof?
republicanism is a mental illness!
better stop dithering about his personal life and get his shit together.He has a atate to run.So get over it or get out.
....who has assumed the airs of the clientele. Like the hostess, he's only hired help, but he makes the regulars feel so comfortable.
since he spent the previous 8 years polishing the turd that was the Bush administration.
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