E&P: David Broder Responds to Blogger Greenwald on 'Propping Up' Bush

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor&Publisher: David Broder Responds to Blogger Greenwald on 'Propping Up' Bush
By E&P Staff
Published: February 16, 2007

NEW YORK Glenn Greenwald slammed David Broder today on Salon.com for his rosy assessment of the current situation for President Bush -- and Broder responded hours later during an online chat on WashingtonPost.com.

"David Broder ... declares that 'President Bush is poised for a political comeback' all because of some supposedly ingenious rhetoric and strategic tricks Bush employed in his generally ignored press conference yesterday," Greenwald wrote in his blog post. "It really never ceases to amaze how out of touch with both American sentiment and basic reality is the Beltway pundit class -- as though Americans are going to re-evaluate their fundamental dislike of the president and their contempt for this war because of some clever phrasing and political tactics Bush invoked in his press conference."

Greenwald, known for his Unclaimed Territory blog until he started this week blogging at Salon, added: "Beltway pundits have long been petrified of the REALITY that most Americans have turned against the president permanently and with deep conviction. Because the David Broders of the world propped up the Bush presidency for so long, they are deeply invested in finding a way to salvage it. They do this exactly the same way -- driven by the same motives and using the same methods -- that they refuse to accept the reality that the Iraq war which they cheered on and enabled is a profound failure. ..."

Broder answered back during the Post online chat. "You will find no one in the White House or on the Republican side of the House or Senate who thinks I have been propping up the Bush presidency," said the columnist, who's syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group. "I have been a persistent critic of him and his policies. The notion that I am invested in him is bizarre -- unless it is meant to suggest that anyone who would rather see his country and his president succeed than fail is 'invested' in him."

In the column that Greenwald criticized, Broder wrote that Bush "is demonstrating political smarts that even his critics have to acknowledge," "has been impressive in recent days," "has been far more accessible -- and responsive -- to the media and public," and "has been more candid in his responses than in the past."...

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[Botany]

1. Whatever Dave

<But just as Clinton did in the winter of 1995, Bush now shows signs of renewed energy
and is regaining the initiative on several fronts.

More important, he is demonstrating political smarts that even his critics have to
acknowledge.>

[PDittie]

3. No, his "critics" don't have to "acknowledge" any such thing

Of course, if we don't then we'll be called irrational and unpatriotic.

I love this game.

[MissWaverly]

10. if anyone assesses Bush as having any smarts political or not

he is someone who is way off the mark

[senseandsensibility]

13. Does your quote from Broder's column mean you agree with

him? If so, why?

[unblock]

2. broder to bush: i wish i could quit you!

what a hopeless toady!

[Demit]

4. LOL! Greenwald eviscerates the Dean and E&P seems to rather enjoy it.

That really was a stupid piece of work by Broder. Bush poised for a political comeback, indeed. I love how E&P quoted extensively from Greenwald. I love how the switch to Salon is giving Greenwald more exposure. Thanks, DMMom, for posting that!

[DeepModem Mom]

6. I check E&P daily. Frankly (even though their news group was acquired by the Carlyle Group)...

they rock!

:headbang:

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

19. I was not familiar with Glenn Greenwald before he joined Salon

I am impressed by his aggressive style backed with solid fact. He turns up the heat on frauds and chases them out of the kitchen. I'm going to keep reading him.

[Benhurst]

5. Well, it's clear now David Broder is even dumber than he looks.

And in his case, that is saying a lot.

[C_U_L8R]

7. meep meep meep

[papau]

8. anyone who wants Bush's anti-social policies to end wants Bush and his country to fail?

David - I believe I hear the sound of a GOP apologist in your writing.

[NJCher]

9. Broder is such a fine bush 'ho

At the E&P site are links to both pieces. Why the Washington press gives these deluded fantasies of the right any space is a mystery to me.

Greenwald provides plenty of back-up for his claim that Broder has been a bush toady all along. Those older columns of his are sad and pathetic. Singing the praises of der Fuhrer.

The one thing I will say for Broder's analysis is that it points out that bush does have some good communication strategists behind him, but that is all for naught when one's positions are so far out of step, so deluded, and so contrary to what the American people want.

Bush won't be making any political comeback, Mr. Broder, nor will you be making any kind of a journalistic comeback. You've been slapped up alongside the head real good. Time to retire and let the more cogent take their rightful place.



Cher

[librechik]

11. earth to Broder

come down from the roof, you'll kill yourswelf!

On what planet has Broder been critical of the President?

Jeezus, he needs an intervention...

[AlCzervik]

12. I guess Broder doesn't read his own columns.

[williesgirl]

14. I challenge Broder to give some examples of * candor. He's a * whore

and hopefully no one will continue to read him and he'll get fired.

[MasonJar]

15. Is this the press conference in which the little piece of scrap metal

refused to answer the question posed by the Post reporter on the Plame leak? If so, I did not notice anything amazing unless it was that for once he didn't have a tic in his neck.

[donco6]

16. Broder's article about the press conference was . . .

. . . written from that spot that's so far up W's ass, that Broder probably couldn't even see the computer screen anymore. I don't know what he was watching (or smoking), but that was a pathetic performance - even offensive, with all the joshing and joking and "good-ol'boy" bullshitting. It made me want to vomit. And he thought it was just keen.

David Broder is a tool - nothing less.

[depakid]

17. Broder's just another liar

Paid to whore for Bush and the far right.

His material (like the rest of the Post) isn't worth reading.

[NewJeffCT]

18. I must have missed those political smarts Bush has been showing?

I mean, it would have been so unusual to see that, that political smarts from Bush would stand out like blood on new fallen snow. Can anybody point out the occasions of Bush showing smarts and point them out to me?

Hello?

Bueller?