David Broder Demands an Apology
...at least from people who don't employ him
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Generally I place David Broder in the same category of dissicated hack as Daniel Schorr. Today, I have to give him partial props.
Broder says that Salon, Newsweek, and American Prospect owe Karl Rove an apology. Somehow the Washington Post and New York Times, which drove the story through acts of commission and omission, escape blame.
He doesn't say it but I will, Sid Blumenthal and Joe Conason should be horsewhipped by on the steps of the Clinton Library.
These and other publications owe Karl Rove an apology. And all of journalism needs to relearn the lesson: Can the conspiracy theories and stick to the facts.
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even if he gets it right on occasion.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
Broder showed why he is the dean of MSM. He basicly told everyone they need to stop trying to get Bush and report the facts. He basicly bashed those pundits who have been printing conspiracy theories not based on anything. As for the Washington Post, its editorial staff did come out and complained about for all hype, there was really nothing to this case and it wasted everyone's time. For the Post, this is as close as you get to an apology. The President should pardon Scooter Libby and end this nonsense.
to be known as the "dean" of the White House press corps?
The Post's editorial staff knew three years ago that the Plame story was contrived but they pushed it on their front page and editiorial pages relentlessly. Not as much as the NYT for which the story was pathological.
This, like the WaPo editorial, belongs in the too-little-too-late file.
Broder is a little different than most of the liberal and leftist commentators at newspapers, television stations and especially the blogosphere in that he is old enough to have a conscience and to realize when the "movement" is being more destructive than helpful, both to itself and others.
As nice as it is to see Broder call for an apology, the thoughtless and bloodthirsty outnumber the responsible people in his party by about 10:1 right now, and therefore I expect this article to register with the approximate percussive effect of a tree falling in the forest when nobody is around to listen.
Actually, it could even backfire on him, and I expect that it will: remember what Kos said about Richard Cohen for this article, back in October of 2005: [Warning: Kos Talk. But visit the site anyway and click through to Cohen's column. It's worth it.]
The best thing Patrick Fitzgerald could do for his country is get out of Washington, return to Chicago and prosecute some real criminals. As it is, all he has done so far is send Judith Miller of the New York Times to jail and repeatedly haul this or that administration high official before a grand jury, investigating a crime that probably wasn't one in the first place but that now, as is often the case, might have metastasized into some sort of coverup -- but, again, of nothing much. Go home, Pat.
Almost a year later, and the situation for the Kossacks went from bad to worse when Karl Rove wasn't indicted and then the bottom fell out of the story completely with the Armitage revelation. But conscience and wisdom has never stopped the Kossacks from doing things like killing Joe Lieberman in Connecticut, and I don't expect it to now. To them, the Washington Post is nothing but an enemy -- a corporate, conservative newspaper which uses its imprimatur to -- koff, koff -- beat the drums of war and cover for the Bush Administration. I expect both David Broder and Richard Cohen already have a ticket for their tenners at the gulag waiting in Kos's wall safe for the day the nutroots crashes the gates and comes to power.
At least that is what the Democrats thought. The purpose of the whole Plame conspiracy, run out of Schumer's office, was to drive Bush's poll numbers down and try and get phony charges against whoever they could.
The fly in the ointment, Bush doesn't care about polls. Not that that is all that good, but that's how it is. With Bush, it's elections that count, and the star burst bomb Bush set off in the Democrats face with his terror speech yesterday has definitely changed the narrative back to his side. Hope he keeps it up.
How about a nice photo op showing off the 1.8 metric tonnes of enriched uranium removed from Iraq? That would be nice.