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The Spectacle Blog
Long-time Washington Post reporter David Broder, the so-called “dean” of the DC press corps, died at 81 today from complications relating to diabetes, the Post reports.
Broder was working up until the very end, and anybody who covers politics for a living has probably bumped into him at one point or another. I remember covering the Rudy Giuliani campaign during a cold weekend in New Hampshire in November 2007, and Broder, then in his late 70s, was touring along. I noticed him at one event, standing in the back, his hand slightly shaking as he took notes the old fashioned way while younger reporters were running around with digital recorders and scrambling to upload video on their laptops.
I wondered whether I’d still find the campaign trail so alluring when I reached that age.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.9.11 @ 2:57PM
If a carpenter built lousy houses for years and they collapsed and killed people there would be no honor.
When a journalist lies to the public for years and shades the news, they somehow still deserve honor.
Grzmlyk| 3.9.11 @ 3:41PM
As the villain Noah Cross (played brilliantly by John Huston) says in Chinatown, "Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."
I guess Broder lasted long enough.
Imagine the funeral they'll eventually give Obama.
Of course, by then we'll live in the Soviet States of America.
Maybe he'll be encased in glass for the gawkers to come and gaze upon the man who brought this country down.
Sheila| 3.9.11 @ 6:39PM
Thanks, Grzmlyk - yours is the first comment I've seen anywhere in days that was worth reading, and it made me smile. No, my prayers are not with his family, and I neither mourn nor celebrate his passing. "I guess Broder lasted long enough" is a perfect epitaph.