David Broder's Surprising Sock Choice

[JPhillips]

So I was sitting next to David Broder tonight at a play at Arena Stage. As I was leaving I looked at Broder and saw his pants had ridden up to almost his knees. His socks were black, but they were embroidered with the Nike logo and Swoosh. Somehow I expect plain black out of the Dean of Political Columnists.

As a side note, he had almost no discernible leg hair.

[Suicane75]

Yeah, so this is like, the oddest post ever. Ever.

[Fonzie]

As a side note, he had almost no discernible leg hair.

Nair?

[Honolulu_Blue]

Who is David Broder?

[rkmsuf]

Where the f-ck is the f-cking parody thread?

[Tekneek]

David S. Broder, a national political correspondent reporting the political scene for The Washington Post, writes a twice-weekly column that covers an even broader aspect of American political life. The column, syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group, is carried by more than 300 newspapers across the globe.

Broder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for distinguished commentary.

A survey for the Washingtonian magazine found that Broder was rated "Washington's most highly regarded columnist" by both editorial-page editors and members of Congress, leading 16 others in ratings for "overall integrity, factual accuracy and insight." In 1990, the same magazine surveyed opinion-page editors of the largest 200 newspapers who rated Broder as "Best Reporter," "Hardest Working," and "Least Ideological" among some 123 columnists. And in March 2001, the Washingtonian rated Broder among the top four best and most influential journalists, calling him "the most unpredictable, reliable and intellectually honest columnist working today," adding that "while the journalistic pack is pestering a flack, Broder is out with the people; no one gets a better sense of the pulse of American opinion."

Broder has been called "the high priest of political journalism," by author Timothy Crouse, "the unchallenged 'dean' of what many political reporters like to think is their 'priesthood,'" by U.S. News, and "probably the most respected and influential political journalist in the country," by columnist Richard Reeves. Esquire said Broder "has few challengers as the most influential political journalist in the country," and media critic Ron Powers on CBS-TV said, "Broder is not famous like Peter Jennings, he's not glamorous like Tom Brokaw, but underneath that brown suit there is a superman."

Broder has won numerous awards, including the White Burkett Miller Presidential Award in 1989, and the prestigious 4th Estate Award from the National Press Foundation in 1990, which also honored him with the Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award in 1993. He received the Elijah Parrish Lovejoy Award from Colby College in 1990, and was elected to Sigma Delta Chi's Hall of Fame. In addition, he won the 1997 William Allen White Foundation's award for distinguished achievement in journalism, and, in the same year, was given the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1997, he was named among the 25 most influential Washington journalists by National Journal.

Before joining the Post in 1966, Broder covered national politics for The New York Times (1965-66), The Washington Star (1960-65) and Congressional Quarterly (1955-60). He has covered every national campaign and convention since 1960, traveling up to 100,000 miles a year to interview voters and report on the candidates.

Broder is a regular commentator on CNN's "Inside Politics," and makes regular appearances on NBC's "Meet the Press" and "Washington Week in Review."

He is author or co-author of seven books: "Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money" (Harcourt, 2000); "The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point" with Washington Post alumnus Haynes Johnson (Little, Brown and Company, 1996); "The Man Who Would be President: Dan Quayle" with Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, 1992); "Behind the Front Page: A Candid Look at How the News is Made" (Simon & Schuster, 1987); "Changing of the Guard: Power and Leadership in America" (Simon & Schuster, 1980 and Penguin, 1981); "The Party's Over: The Failure of Politics in America" (Harper & Row, 1972); and "The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the G.O.P." with Stephen Hess (Harper & Row, 1967).

Broder was born in Chicago Heights, Ill. He received his bachelor's degree and an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago, served two years in the U.S. Army, and began his newspaper career at the Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph. He has been a Fellow of the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs at Duke University.

Broder and his wife (the former Ann Creighton Collar) have four grown sons and make their home in Arlington, Virginia.

Lifted completely from http://www.postwritersgroup.com/broder.htm

[Logan]

If I had no clue this guy existed, does that reflect poorly on me (and H_B)?

[Raiders Army]

After reading the Masturbation thread, I thought the socks in this thread were for a different use.

[Raiders Army]

Dola,

How do you pants ride up to your knees??? Jesus. He must be getting ready for the flood.

[Tekneek]

How do you pants ride up to your knees??? Jesus. He must be getting ready for the flood.

Or he's just old...old people do that sort of thing.