Sarah Broder
I hope after this column, the Villagers will get together and understand like we do that it's time for Broder to hang up his column.
Blessed with an enthusiastic audience of conservative activists, Palin used the Tea Party gathering and coverage on the cable networks to display the full repertoire she possesses, touching on national security, economics, fiscal and social policy, and every other area where she could draw a contrast with Barack Obama and point up what Republicans see as vulnerabilities in Washington.
Her invocation of "conservative principles and common-sense solutions" was perfectly conventional. What stood out in the eyes of TV-watching pols of both parties was the skill with which she drew a self-portrait that fit not just the wishes of the immediate audience but the mood of a significant slice of the broader electorate.
Freed of the responsibilities she carried as governor of Alaska, devoid of any official title but armed with regular gigs on Fox News Channel and more speaking invitations than she can fulfill, Palin is perhaps the most visible Republican in the land.
More important, she has locked herself firmly in the populist embrace that every skillful outsider candidate from George Wallace to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton has utilized when running against "the political establishment."
Palin was terrible in the general election because of McCain and Bush. Wait, did he just blame Bush for Palin's failures? Then he continues. Was he watching the same speech that we were?
Palin's final answer to Wallace showed how perfectly she has come to inhabit that part. When he asked her what role she wants to play in the country's future, she said:
"First and foremost, I want to be a good mom, and I want to raise happy, healthy, independent children. And I want them to be good citizens of this great country.
"And then I do want to be a voice for some common-sense solutions. I'm never going to pretend like I know more than the next person. I'm not going to pretend to be an elitist. In fact, I'm going to fight the elitist, because for too often and for too long now, I think the elitists have tried to make people like me and people in the heartland of America feel like we just don't get it, and big government's just going to have to take care of us. "I want to speak up for the American people and say: No, we really do have some good common-sense solutions. I can be a messenger for that. Don't have to have a title to do it. This is a pitch-perfect recital of the populist message that has worked in campaigns past. There are times when the American people are looking for something more: for an Eisenhower, who liberated Europe; an FDR or a Kennedy or a Bush, all unashamed aristocrats; or an Obama, with eloquence and brains.
There's more to the column so finish it up on the WaPo site. Her answers were devoid of any true substance and were nothing more than canned responses targeted for the pro-conspiracy theory-anti-government crowd to attack the president with her common sense approach to politics. Is he kidding me? I honestly watched her highly paid performance at the teabagger convention to see how much she has improved since Roger Ailes decided to give her some much needed training on FOX News so he can see if she's got what it takes. I've been checking her out and did notice a slight improvement as far as her giving shorter responses to the FOX friendly hosts when she appears, but this speech was a mess. I don't reflexively dismiss her because she's Bill Kristol's Dan Quayle project that finally took hold and is very popular with the extreme right wing base. The fact that she's a quitter doesn't bug David either.
My eyes are really starting to bother me since I spend so much time in front of a computer monitor and my hi-def television that C&L demands and I think there are a few things that are getting to Broder as well. I'm sure his health care plan covers psychiatric visits too.
Why do people keep referring to Palin as a "quitter"? I heard a Teabagger tell some reporter that Sarah HAD to resign her Governership because "the county needed her".
It's true, isn't it.....you can't fix stupid. I empathize with her son that has intellectual disabilities, but even more that his mother is just plain stupid.
all it takes is all of us
Unlike Obama, she never smoked. And she never lied to Jake Tapper
about quitting within smelling distance either.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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Altzheimers.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
on the palin /bagger issue..No more ink --do not read the columns!
STOP THIS NOW!
she's ubiquitous.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
These people are out of their collective minds.
OWWW...
My brain hurts
Trying to read that...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
That is, I quit watching PBS Newshour last summer on Friday nights because Broder is a bag of tea gas.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Good to see ya.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
We missed you.
Welcome back!!
Broder's comments, as opinions, cannot be as easily attacked as a horrifying bracelet worn for all the world to see.
They are, indeed, par for the pathetic Broder course, but not dismissable by a manufacturer's comment which was on-line with his original draft seven hours before it was posted here.
Let us hope Mr. Broder's stay at the mental hospital is closely fact checked.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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Whatever he is smoking that is...
Names, Broder! I want names! Do I really have to explain this to you? NAMES!
If Broder had names, he'd give them. He has no names.
He.
Is.
Lying.
As an MSM member myself, I really hate it when people put on their most irritating, condescending voice and say "Don't you people ahve editorrs over there?" But in this case it's a valid question.
It's time for David Broder to hang up his column because...a few people don't agree with him? This is America, folks. Why is it that liberals want those with whom they do not agree to stop writing? Criticize him all you want, but to say he's in need of psychiatric help makes Mr. Amato no better than the conservatives he hates.
i.e. Nixon will survive Watergate, Bush will bounce back....etc.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
No, he should hang up his collumn because of his track record of being wrong. And for all the pain and suffering he has helped create with his cheerleading for disfunctional conservative economic policies and middle east wars. Maybe some people should get a collumn for having a track record of being correct on the bulk of issues. Experts with actual expertise, what a novel concept.
"Get this Straight"
It's time for David Broder to hang...
few people agree with him...
This is America... liberals want...psychiatric help.
Amato... better than the conservatives he hates.
CRITIC SAM raves about new blog post. ****
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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nor, I suspect, "Sam". Just another right winger trying to gain cred by calling himself something he's not. Kos gets hate mail all the time from people claiming to be Democrats who then go off on rants, replete with right wing talking points.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
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"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
I win the award for stating the painfully obvious...
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
with his one man Clarence Thomas tribute band.
I forget the name. Techno and the Lynchpins or something.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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A Thomas fan? It's worse than I thought...
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
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exotic.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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Jeebus not another RW ignoramus who does not understand the first amendment. Hey Sam. WE can call for him to be fired all we want. It's our perogative. Yeah this is Amurka. And we want him fired. He's a fucking incompetent liar. How is that unamerican?
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
I am not right wing at all. And I am Sam. How could I possibly get credibility on a left wing site by being right wing? I am a centrist- they call me a left-wing nut job on the right wing blogs. I am a moderate who wants to break the hyperpartisans, ultraliberals, and ultraconservatives who play their fiddles, or in this case, produce their disingenuous blogs while the country burns (falls apart).
... I pointed out that he didn't name any names of "TV-watching pols of both parties" who were supposedly impressed with Palin's performance, and that's pretty much Journalism 101.
But since you bring it up, it isn't that a few people disagree with him; it's that 71 percent of the country disagrees with him. And he is not just some guy writing for some small newspaper - he's known as The Dean of Washington journalism. And coincidentally, in Broder's world it's always good news for Republicans and it's the Democrats' fault there's no bipartisanship and bla bla bla. It never ends.
I don't necessarily want him fired. I want his editors to get together and say "David Broder is never right about anything, and by the way, he didn't attribute anything in his latest column. What should we do about this?" And if they can come up with something short of firing him, OK.
I want to know what is "significant" and which knife wielding SOB went and sliced the broader electorate.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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OK you are right.
Fire his editors too. I'm sure they will all find good jobs writing and editing for their local community newspapers that people find wrapped in plastic on their driveways once per week. But they have no business putting out this completely fabricated drivel in a national newspaper.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
a reply can be properly placed.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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Broder's next column will be on the invincibility of the Colts.
Mr. Manning's picture perfect pass hit Mr. Porter right in stride and in the numbers, enabling the 74 yard Super Bowl clinching touchdown.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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chicks.lol
again no recognition that she was the opening act for Joseph Farah.
i don't spend much time listening to palin speak/write. to me she was exposed in 2008 as a neoCON fraud. she's not an intellect, not well read and like bush not curious. she's a dangerous cheerleader for
warmongering/corporate greed. broder needs to retire and fantasize about palin on his own time.
might want to warn bicyclists and pedestrians in Washington D.C.
to keep an eye out for Mr. Broder's car.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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one of those of whom it is not spoken?
your name's Lebowski, Lebowski... and your wife is Bunny
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"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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. . . and she makes Obama look so good by comparison. No wonder she's being forced down our throats despite the reality that she is completely unelectable.
Also from the Post:
* 7 out of 10 Americans believe she is unqualified to be president (up from 6 in 10 in November);
* Only 45% of conservatives believe she is qualified to be president (down from 66%);
* 29% of independents think she is qualified (down from 37%);
* 55% of America view her unfavorably; 37% hold a favorable view.
As a candidate, Palin is a joke. But she is pretty, and she does make Obama look good by comparison.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
That's how she approaches everything: Like it's some sort of beauty contest and people like Broder, Buchanan and Insannity lap it up. After all, aren't women SUPPOSED to behave like that?
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Wasn't she only a runner-up in both efforts?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
But I forgot. Kudos for catching it. :-)
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
flutism to a flatulent flauta eating judge.
In the beauty contest part.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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About that time in front of the computer and teevee - get some sunlight..
Sunlight
besides nearsightedness prevention you might need some more dopamine to fend off the stupid your exposed to...
Watergate back in 1974. Broder being disconnected from reality isn't new or a sign of age. It's a sign of Broder being consistent. Consistently wrong, granted.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
I guess he has a different set of standards than we do and he apparently saw and heard something different than what we saw and heard.
I'm just bummed out that I missed granny wombat on these threads earlier today. She too seemed to possess a different angle on things as well.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Yeah, that's the scary part.
describing Kathryn Hepburn's acting.
I thought Guess Who's Coming to Dinner stunk too.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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First John Mcain and now Broder.
Both have/are acting rather stupid around Sarah and should have retired years ago.
Its the Oedipus complex they feed em at the nursing home instead of saltpeter.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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"And then I do want to be a voice for some common-sense solutions -
as long as it makes me lots of money. I'm never going to pretend like I know more than the next person as long as it makes me lots of money. I'm not going to pretend to be an elitist as long as it makes me lots of money. In fact, I'm going to fight the elitist as long as it makes me lots of money, because for too often and for too long now, I think the elitists have tried to make people like me who are trying to make lots of money from paranoid kneejerkers and people in the heartland actually just the subset who give me lots of money of America feel like we just don't get it but I do - I make lots of money, and big government's just going to have to take care of us.
"I want to speak up for the American people and say: No, we really do have some good common-sense solutions. I can be a messenger for that. Don't have to have a title to do it - I just need to make lots of money."
Pretend? I love that part. I also enjoyed, "Freed of the responsibilities she carried as governor of Alaska..." which should have said, "Freed of the criminal charges pending against her as governor of Alaska..."
in the style of a movietone newsreel?
I could sure use some!
the one where raiser convinces Woody that he can get him elected and does?
to think this was supposed to only be a work of fiction
I happen to be older than David Broder and am terrified because I can see a future slide into the same depths as his level dementia.
So, she gives giving these old guys woodies and they keep giving her positive reviews. Sheesh. On a related note I saw in the paper today that it is her birthday today. I actually find it hard to believe that she is only 46. She looks older. Rode hard and put away wet.
getting a quality advanced education sure is a sign that you are elitist.
Wouldn't want any of those people who know more than others making decisions about the country.
I'd much rather have Goober from the gas station calling out the economic policies of the administration than Paul Krugman.
Her fucking sights are set far too low to serve the people.
She wants to be one of the crowd until she realizes the crowd doesn't get paid phat to blabber their lips and waste precious oxygen while getting nothing done to make this world any fucking better for anybody else then herself.
She is a fucking moron. If that is the intelligence level the people of America want speaking for them, I for one will leave.
I repeat - she is a fucking moron. There is a reason that beauty queens are noticed for their looks. It's their currency.
The problem is she and the Americans who follow her think that the currency of looks is the same as the currency of brains.
It's not. The spoon fed masses slurp the soup and believe it all splashes together as long as it looks good.
They are wrong. It actually does take some smarts to make broad-looking, yet focused decisions that drastically affect the lives of others.
She does not have that skill. She cannot spend that currency. Her wallet is empty, but her makeup bag is full.
Mr. Broder,
Had today been April 1, I might be able to understand your op-ed in today's Post, but as it is actually February 11, I find it hard to choose the right words to critique this piece of drivel.
"Her lengthy Saturday night keynote address to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville and her debut on the Sunday morning talk show circuit with Fox News' Chris Wallace showed off a public figure at the top of her game -- a politician who knows who she is and how to sell herself, even with notes on her palm.
This was not the first time that Palin has impressed me".
Sell herself, indeed, as she is nothing more than a publicity seeking, hypocritical whore. She is THE symbol of what is wrong with this country's political system.
"Palin used the Tea Party gathering and coverage on the cable networks to display the full repertoire she possesses, touching on national security, economics, fiscal and social policy, and every other area where she could draw a contrast with Barack Obama and point up what Republicans see as vulnerabilities in Washington".
And, pray tell, just what is the full repertoire she possesses? This woman has no ideas; she is a parrot; she can't even remember core republican principles without writing them on her palm!
Mr. Broder, I do believe this should be your swansong. The time has come for you to retire.
Nice to see an elderly man can still pop a boner. If only he had better taste...
John, I think that you have captured Sarah Palin in a nutshell. There is nothing but canned talking points strung together. big government, common sense, elists then wrap that up in Americans who are generally admired and that's Sarah. As Jon Stewart said, "There is no there, there."
Jelperman - perhaps we should ask Sarah how Broder tasted?
he could get a ham sandwich elected. But you can't put lipstick on a ham sandwich.
David Broder and Bill Kristol are rabid Zionist who never met a muslim country they didn't think needed an ass kickin'...as long it wasn't their sons and daughters putting their lives on the line.
Kristol and his fellow bloodthirsty neocons know that if Palin gets in the oval office, all they would have to do is pick up the phone and say..."Bomb Iran on Friday of this week." They know Palin would only ask, before she said..."You Betcha!"..."Would that be convential or nuclear bombs Mr. Kristol?"
don smith
and help us raise health, happy chirrens. A scene from the event courtesy of Texas Freedom Network:
http://tfnblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/pe...
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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Broder's career has been built on ONE thing--
making extreme right-wing bullshit sound reasonable. He has an amazing talent for doing just that, and has made a good living at it.
Doesn't anyone ever ask her what? What is even one of those common sense solutions? I'd listen.
One word....Aricept. It may do wonders.
"I'm never going to pretend like I know more than the next person. I'm not going to pretend to be an elitist. In fact, I'm going to fight the elitist, because for too often and for too long now, I think the elitists have tried to make people like me and people in the heartland of America feel like we just don't get it."
uhhhhh, so .. ok.
I'm not going to pretend that I know more than somebody else.
in fact, if somebody else pretends they know more than me I'm gonna tell them that they don't.
?????
Sarah Palin reminds me of George W. Bush. Republicans said that George W. Bush was perfect & never made mistakes, and that is how they feel about Sarah Palin. Come to think of it, that is how Republicans feel about themselves; they are perfect & never make mistakes. This is why I do not trust Republicans; They are the real elitists in the USA.
Her game being a pathological liar who loves America so much, she wants Alaska to secede from it. Now she's thrown in with the racist secessionists from TeaGagCon who want a lone wolf to murder President Obama so they can use it as an excuse to start a civil war. The memorable quote from TeaGagCon was, "We're not shooting anybody. At least not yet."
Don't say you weren't warned.
If it looks like shit and smells like shit, then it's probably shit. Broder laid down some giant patties all over the place. I see a great future for Sarah and husband in Amway.
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