It's time for David Broder to apologize or retire, because his right-wing rants are getting ridiculous at this point. Democrats don't like the military? That's his latest unsubstantiated right-wing talking point he published today.
From Oliver Willis, quoting Broder today:
One of the losers in the weekend oratorical marathon was retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who repeatedly invoked the West Point motto of "Duty, Honor, Country," forgetting that few in this particular audience have much experience with, or sympathy for, the military.From where did he pull that bullshit argument? He says he was at the DNC meeting this weekend, and I guess he could just tell by all the "kill the military" buttons we were all wearing (we had them pinned to our "I work for Satan" t-shirts).
I was at the DNC meeting this past weekend, and unlike David Broder, it wasn't clear to me at all that the overwhelming majority of the audience had "no sympathy" for the military. In fact, General Clark was MOBBED the entire time he was there. I was due to interview him, and it took a good 20 minutes for him to walk 20 feet to our camera because the crowd wouldn't leave him alone. And not because they didn't feel any "empathy" for him. They loved him.
This is a classic Republican talking point based on absolutely nothing. Unless David Broder thinks that opposition to the Iraq disaster makes you anti-military, in which case over 70% of the American people hate the military, using David Broder's calculus.
It's time for David Broder to apologize, or admit that he's lost his edge, and unfortunately his mind. This kind of angry, right-wing crap is beneath him. Or at least it should be.
