David Broder, high priest of false equivalencies, outdoes himself in his column today:
Was Christmas Day 2009 the same kind of wake-up call for Barack Obama that Sept. 11, 2001, had been for George W. Bush?
The near-miss by a passenger plotting to blow up an American airliner as it flew into Detroit seems to have shocked this president as much as the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon did the last.
If we are to understand Broderism as the casual equivalence of catastrophic Republican failures with trivial Democratic ones, then this -- the comparison of an terrorist attack in which nearly 3000 Americans died with one in which some loser with a bomb in his underpants set himself on fire and was put down by unarmed civilians -- is Peak Broder, the most Broderesque statement that has ever been made.
With apologies to John Cole.
-- A. Serwer
