Political columnist David Broder dead at 81

[madinmaryland]

Washington (CNN) -- David Broder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post political columnist, died Wednesday from complications relating to diabetes, the newspaper said.

He was 81.

Broder, known as the "dean of the Washington press corps," won the Pulitzer in 1973 for his coverage of the Watergate scandal. He covered every national political convention since 1956, according to the Post.

"David spent his professional life with political leaders at all levels of society, from precinct captains to presidents, on Capitol Hill, and in State Houses and City Halls in all fifty states," Broder's family said in a statement posted on the Post's website.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/09/broder.dead/index.html?hpt=T2

[Duval]

1. RIP, DAVID BRODER. :(

[Keith Bee]

2. So, another status-quo corporate "journalist" is dead

Color me devastated. That buzzard's advocacy for the spectacularly-misnomered "Operation Iraqi Freedom," which has claimed thousands of young lives, should be his ticket to a very hot afterlife.

[LiberalEsto]

4. +1 nt

[elocs]

3. Yeah, I seem to have read about that a few times earlier here today.

I bet it will be posted again tonight.