Oh happy day! The awful David Broder, king of conventional wisdom, a man who hasn’t had an original insight in 25 years, a man who is a slave to a centrism that is defined by policies/politics he favors, who pushes for a unity ticket with Michael Bloomberg on it, who is seemingly on Meet the Press every week to say dumb things to moron Tim Russert, has taken a buyout offer from the Washington Post! Yay, no more Broder! No more Broder! If only it were so:
The column you have been running will not change at all, and you will continue to receive it from The Washington Post Writers Group. I will continue to write from the same office in the Post newsroom and will continue to travel the country to wherever politics is happening. You will find me at the Democratic and Republican conventions this summer and on the campaign trail this fall, just as I have been this winter and spring.
As of Jan. 1, I will become a contract employee of The Washington Post Company. For the last two years, the bulk of my reporting has gone into the column, rather than the news pages of the Post. This change will allow me to focus entirely on the column, while freeing up the Post to use its budget for other news-section salaries and expenses.
So. Nothing is changing really? Then why get my hopes up headline writers? Instead of “Broder takes Post Buyout” write “Broder takes money but will continue to poison Post’s Op-Ed page for the next 100 years”?
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