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. . . his colleagues routinely speak of [Broder] in the hushed, awed tone they typically reserve for John McCain and Joe Lieberman.
Journalists speaking in "hushed, awed tones" about the people they cover. That's it in a nutshell.
By the way, check out "The Boys on the Bus," chronicling the press corps in the 1972 presidential campaign, for Hunter Thompson's take on what a hack Broder is. He claims to have made a nice pile of cash just by automatically betting AGAINST Broder's picks in every single primary.