BRODER: I know, and I am not a fan of the blogs, and the blogs are not fans of mine, and we can live with that tension as well. What I like about the world today is that people can have an audience without having to be cleared by anybody, and it's a great thing for this country that people can express their views.
If you think through that logically, he's saying that everyone who can get an audience "without having to be cleared by anybody" doesn't like him.
As for his stuff about Reid, this is just bizarre. In the original column he wrote:
And join the long list of senators of both parties who are ready for these two springtime exhibitions of ineptitude to end.
He's got a "long list of senators from both parties."
Except 50 of them told him to pound sand. To which he responded:
Broder told E&P that he was "astonished and delighted" that 50 Democratic senators "spontaneously" came up with the letter (adding that he was being "tongue-in-cheek").
The columnist also said he was "not surprised" that his Thursday piece drew such a negative reaction from the 50 senators and most of the many readers who flooded WashingtonPost.com with comments. "This war is so unpopular and for very good reason," said Broder. "I've written many columns critical of this administration's actions in Iraq, and most of the response of readers to those columns has been: 'Right on.'"
Who's on his list of senators? Where exactly did this list come from?