PSoTD

Please don't hire these people.

I sent an email to David Broder a few weeks ago for a lousy column he wrote (standard fare for him) and today, finally, came this:

Thank you for your e-mail to David Broder. With the popularity of these columns, we receive upward of 1,000 e-mails a week. We regret that we cannot respond to all of them. If we did, there would be no column to e-mail about. But be assured that David Broder or one of his editors will read every e-mail. If you are responding to one of Mr. Broder's columns, we invite you to let us know in which newspaper you read the column (unless you have already done so in your e-mail) by replying to davidbroder@washpost.com. Then we will share your e-mail with your local newspaper editor, who would also appreciate hearing your feedback.

Sincerely,

The Washington Post Writers Group

After a week and a half, that's a bumbling email to send. It's an autoresponse, why wouldn't it have sent out immediately?

I'm just kinda wondering, has Joe the Plumber actually said his life has been destroyed the past few weeks? Or is he liking his fifteen minutes of fame?

If the Chicago Tribune had any brains, they'd replace John Kass with Joe the Plumber. I don't care if Joe can't write anything interesting, at least so far he hasn't proved that he would pen something irrational and stool-like.

Sure, at least ten newspapers that backed Bush in 2004 are now endorsing Obama this year, but unless they've changed editorial boards, I can't be impressed with decisionmaking made by folks who backed such a problem causer for the United States in 2004.

Links to online newspapers.

is to read the assessment of Christopher Hitchins on McCain and Palin - and Obama.

Bill Kristol has some advice: keep aimlessly flailing.

What the heck, maybe America wants an extremely erratic leader! Who knows? It's just too bad that you didn't name a Wilson volleyball as VP!

It's abundantly clear, the Republicans as a group don't know how to campaign in today's America, so how would anyone expect them as a group to know how to govern?

For election coverage, David Gergen is about the only reason to watch CNN. The lack of thoughtful, honest conservatives on television makes Gergen's regular appearances stand out as some of the most watchable political commentary on television outside of The Comedy Network. It's worth - and only worth - watching CNN's coverage to hear a conservative actually honestly assess what is going on with the Republican Party.

Because he's babyassbitching about his job. Maybe next time CBS should have him cover the Libertarian Party's candidate. Seriously, is this what CBS is paying him to cover - how he's treated on the campaign?

There must be some alternative reason that ticket sales suck besides reality. THERE MUST BE A CONSPIRACY!!!!!

When people ask the news media to examine the debate content in detail, I do not think that this is what they mean.

I guess I'm a bit jaded, I don't see these "commentators" as just being horrible judges of politics and how Americans see it today, but as strong efforts to try to prop up what can only be perceived as an unacceptable debate result for any Vice Presidential candidate.

You know what would be fun? A CNN program that discusses analysis of the VP debate from four different commentators including the two above, and have one of those "undecided" focus groups with that male/female response graph at the end, and see who people actually believe.