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You must must must watch this video of “The Princess” of the Washington press corps, David Broder, walking around some small Pennsylvania town looking for friends. He knocks on so many doors, but so many people are at work. And so he just keeps on walkin’. Every now and then he meets a nice lady or gentleman. They humor him politely, as one would an old person asking questions about one’s politics. David Broder has literally no idea where he is. [Washington Post]
“You wake up lost, in an empty town,
wonderin’ why no one else is around…”
I’d like to see him try this in the projects.
His stiff little knocky-knocky is so endearing.
They’re all so clean and articulate!
He should have brought Hank Jr. along with him.
He just couldn’t bring himself to say “McCain’s getting his ass kicked,” could he?
He still writes? He was like 40 when they were electing Nixon for a second time. Geez…
That is the worst knocking form I have EVER SEEN. David should be ashamed.
Anyone else notice him rubbing his nipple at :08?
All that’s missing is the onion on his belt.
i was more distracted/turbed by his sagging pants
Wait, he arrives on an Amtrak train, and then he’s getting into a car with Jersey plates at the end of the video! Did someone offer him some werthers?
Li’l Davey Broder haz been kidnapsed!
grundle burrito: He’s knocking on the glass! I hope he broughta bottle of Windex with him.
“That lady drops her g’s.”
Oh horrors! No Southernors nor Alaskans allowed in public ever again!
Anyone notice just noticed that when the harpy started talking the stock market is dropping?
Oh that poor poor man! Big grey caterpillars have eaten his eyes!
I think he’s kinda cute and he knows his limits for his age… unlike McCain.
I agree with those who said he has the weirdest knocking form they’ve ever seen. That shit is ODD, yo.
Cogito Ergo Bibo: And that lady surely did annunciate all her words did she not? I had the sound down and knew exactly what she was sayin
StrangelyBrown: Stop already with the Rush references!
And I thought I had no ass. Jeepers.
Stop the Ageism!
I could do this! He’s been doing it for a century or so? Well he’ll need a replacement sometime. Probably pays good. Not sure I could make it sound so pointless though. He’s a master at that.
Uh,I used to live in Ambler, PA
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All you have to do is tell him they’re giving away free stuff for seniors at the Rite-Aid, and he’ll knock you over faster than my wife going for the Tiffany catalog or my mistress for the crack pipe.
This is a video of David Broder wandering around Mayfield, asking if Ward has been a little hard on Teh Beav.
pepe: which you know was the style at the time.
It’s time for “One on the Town!” with Earl Camembert”
SCTV, we miss you.
That same headline will be used in a story about John McCain post election. Is it me, or is this guy some sort of alien?
I think he’s still holding onto his dream of the Bloomberg/Hagel Unity ‘08 ticket.
Seriously, the guy needs to retire.
This is why the Washington Post sucks. This video would be embarrassing if a high school freshman produced it, and yet the Post isn’t embarrassed–they put it on their own website for Chrissake. I call the Post the “born yesterday” newspaper. It’s like all their reporters just fell off the turnip truck and wandered into the Post newsroom, where they were immediately hired. Anything Bush or McCain or Palin says, no matter how preposterous, is treated seriously. The Post has no memory of their 10 million previous lies.
Sorry, not funny, I had to vent. The Post really does suck.
I find it difficult to listen to a man with no buttcheeks.
A few observances:
1. David Brooks still drives; watching him try to get his wobbly ass in the car made me glad I don’t live anywhere near where he might be endangering other drivers.
2. Why didn’t he ever look at the camera? Is he afraid it’ll steal his soul or does he prefer the daguerreotype or you just can’t see his eyes through the old man caterpillar eyebrows.
3. He got his bony ass into a pair of Levis; I’d like to see Walnuts in a pair of Levis. I bet his knees don’t bend enough to be able to walk in them.
4. Finally when you talk to people at the library, one must assume they can read. Of course all the readers are going to be for Barry. All of Walnuts’s voters are at the feed store spitting on bales of hay & laughing about the cow they poked the night before.
Texan Bulldoggette: It must be observed that your observances look a lot like “observations.” But maybe you’re just making one of those elitist librul “puns.”
should he be driving that car?
I won’t say this is a case for active euthanasia. Not gonna say it. Didn’t say it.
Texan Bulldoggette: “I bet his knees don’t bend enough to be able to walk in them.” That’s because he was tortured. In the war. And it was painful. That is also why he picked bimbo Sarah Palin as his vice prexy mate, and why he palled around with Charles Keating.
maybe it’s me being a european that I find it in some way cute, in another way admiring that this man is still doing his duty to protect what he believes in. Yeah sure, his ideas don’t really match what the average wonkette reader approves or represent if you will but as a citizen of a european nation (netherlands) that thinks that no genuine political interference by the people is needed “because we have the EU”, i’m finding his work admirable.
V572625694: Sorry, in a hurry to jot it all down. But I do think we should have some national observance day if we ever see Walnuts in a pair of jeans or if we could ever get all the blind rickety old people to quit driving.
Robbertjan: If I got all the free hash and wooden shoes I wanted, I would leave it all up to the EU too.
Tommy Says Soooo: those bastards actually want to take it away from us so we are getting our battle gear ready. loading up our gouda and edammer to drop on brussels.
you just don’t take a dutchman’s wooden shoes and weed. -_-
Robbertjan: Just keep repeating, “If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much.”
Aurelio: As god’s final touch he created the dutch.
right, back ontopic.
Robbertjan:
He’s yours! No give-backs.
Why don’t the senile retire anymore? Isn’t there a special home for places like Broder and McCain? We could call it the “Give It a Resthome.”
Heh, I watched that to see what random-ass backwoods place he want in PA, and it turns out he’s literally 1/2 mile up the road from where I’m sitting here at work. Um, it is technically north and west of me, so I’ll just assume all he found at the library were Northern- and Western-PA bitters.
“Hi, I’m David Broder from the Washington Post …”
“Then why do you look like you’ve wandered away from your rest home, after many years as a greeter at Wal-Mart?”
He should have waited another week; he’d have found EVERYBODY at home during the day.
Cogito Ergo Bibo: That pretty damn good idea.
That picture reminds me of a joke I heard:
An old man is on a park bench crying.
“What’s wrong”, said the man next to him.
“It’s my wife. She’s 20 years old, blond with big tits. All she wants is sex. Morning, noon, and night. Sex. Sex. Sex.”
“So what’s the problem?!”, said the other man increduously.
“I forgot where I live”, sobbed the old man.
FOR ABOUT THE ONE-MILLIONTH TIME, SERIOUS NOTE TO ALL JOURNALISTS:
The following is true, about 98 percent of the time: Print journalists are not broadcasters. And broadcasters are not print journalists. This is true. They are different mediums with different skill sets, different abilities, and different levels of talent associated with them.
Most print journalists should not be on camera or on radio–including about 50 currently on the air who should not be on the air, and everyone can turn on ESPN on Monday nights and realize who one of them is.
Concurrently, most radio and television broadcasters are literally not print journalists. When they attempt to sit down and write a real newspaper, magazine or print journalism, they generally fail. Again, different mediums, different skill sets.
Print guys: Please leave the video to the video guys. Video guys: Please leave the newspapers, magazines and newsletters to the newspaper, magazine and newsletter guys.
It’s just about that simple.