David Broder: Also just doesn't get it
Listened to the Bob Edwards Show on my XM radio this morning. Bob lobbed David Broder a big, fat, hanging fast ball which Broder utterly failed to knock out of the park. Edwards mentioned the number of times that Bush said the word "Freedom" during his inaugural (why, oh why, couldn't it have been 42 so that somebody besides a leftist with a dismissive swipe to take at the administration could remember it?) and Broder, a columnist for a national newspaper, no less, utterly failed to point out that it was a 47 (or WHATEVER)-headed codeword for power and wealth, man! He's a tool of the man, man!
Just joking around. Here comes the condescending part: See, saying that every word out of Bush's mouth is a clumsy lie just relieves one of having to engage with anything he says. My contention is that not every word out of Bush's mouth is a clumsy lie. In some eyes, I suppose, that translates into "devotion to Bush." Ho-hum. It's my own fault, I guess.