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What’s it like to watch the end of your career on national television, Bob?
November 18th, 2005 at 6:48 pmLike an athlete who has stayed too long in the sport, so did Woodward stay too long in reporting. He should have quit while he was ahead. He had his time in the limelight, now he will go down in ignominy.
November 18th, 2005 at 7:31 pmIn my opinion any reporter who has the approval of the White House to follow the president for x number of days and weeks to then publish a book about the inner workings of this administration is in the back pocket of the president. Now, Woodward gets involved with the outing of a C>I>A> agent and it is no surprise that he now says that he did not think it was such a big deal when he was told about Wilson’s wife
November 18th, 2005 at 7:49 pmHe hasn’t been treated too kindly by the punditry class. He didn’t serve his boss, the WP readers or the country for that matter very well.
I’m sure he will have his defenders, but that will say more about them then him .
richb
November 18th, 2005 at 7:49 pmWell said, Marie #2. Even a phony rightwinger like me sees the eloqence of your words.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I am reminded of what Emerson wrote: “Every hero becomes a bore at last.”
November 18th, 2005 at 8:17 pmI’m really fed up with these damn reporters and editors and all their cloak and dagger, secrecy B.S., and then running to other reporters like Time magazine to play more secrecy games, and spinning another story.
It’s time for these editors to grow up and get serious and just tell the public the whole damn story and come clean. Tell us the source and tell us the truth. The truth will come out one way or the other. The sooner the better. If Woodward’s career is over, so be it. He can go spin for some think tank and play secret agent somewhere else.
How has Woodward’s reporting done anything worthwhile? There are over 2000 Americans dead, and more dying by the day. Thousands of Iraqis are dead, all based on lies. And the Washington Post is worried about what? That maybe Woodward’s next book won’t sell a series of articles? That maybe he might have to tell the public the name of the person who was feeding him Highly Classified information, which was more than likely illegal? That maybe poor Bob might lose a lousy source? Right now, the public needs the truth, up front and out in the open. It was all these damn lies and secrecy that got us into this war, now WE want some answers.
Maybe we need a Congressional investigation into American journalism, if that’s what they still call it. More and more it appears to be state propaganda and misinformation peddled by people calling themselves journalists.
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November 18th, 2005 at 9:22 pmSupport the truth.
Right before Libby was indicted, Rove’s lawyers provided Fitzgerald with something that gave him pause (according to Isakoff from Newsweek). We soon after find out that the “evidence” in question is an email that Rove had sent to Hadley after a converstion he had with Matt Cooper….What was in that email? Was it something that made Fitzgerald question Hadley again? Did Hadley confess at this point that he spoke to Woodward?
November 18th, 2005 at 9:41 pmThe Time story states that in the final weeks Woodward was asked by Downie to report on the status of the probe and he claimed “I learned something more”……and that’s when he fessed up, called his source and blah de blah. I don’t buy Woodward’s account. I might have, had I not seen him on TV denigrating the probe months before the Libby indictment.
The man’s a liar, a coward and a shill….
Woodward did not out a covert agent. Have we lost focus here? We have reason to be concerned about MSM being manipulated by deceptive members of the Bush administration. But, where is the evidence that Woodward furthered the administrations mission?
November 19th, 2005 at 8:39 amCARRIE
You assessment of Woodward is absolutely correct.
Woodward for years was highly regarded because of the Nixon debacle. Along comes this scandal and he is not in the picture.
Being the egomaniac he is he is lying his way into it.He is a waterboy for Bushlandia. Nothing more.
November 19th, 2005 at 10:08 amDid you see the WaPo’s tortured editorial about all this? Made me want to projectile vomit. They, of course, used the “what if he’d revealed Deep Throat” excuse.
Bullshit. First of all, he was writing a story about the topic of that leak. In this case, he was cavorting with the people he should have been covering. Second, this was about a second-rate smear job that the “President’s Men” were conducting–a newsworthy event. And third, Woodward didn’t go on national television in 1972 and trash law enforcement officials looking into Watergate.
The Washington Post is afraid they’ll won’t be invited to GOP Christmas parties if they do their job. Give ‘em hell.
New on EWM: “Society of Co-opted Journalists Presents Inaugural Judy Miller Award to Bob Woodwardâ€
November 19th, 2005 at 10:38 amThink Prgoress where is the thread about the debates last night? Comeon already, the Democrats freaking walking all ove the Republicans.
The Republicans kept trying to make it seem like the House was debating Rep Murtha’s resolution. Until finally the chair stood up and said “Mr. Speaker, are we debating the Hunter resolution or the Murtha resolution?†First the speaker replied back with “We are debating resolution 571.†the democratic chair then asked “Is resolution 571 Mr Hunters resolution or is it Mr Murtha’s resolution?†to which the Speaker replied “Mr Hunter’sâ€
You see the republicans want the world to think that Mr Murtha wants to “cut and run†Rep Murtha had to repeat himself a couple of times that his resolution did not call for imediate withdrawl and that it in fact called for redeployment.
It was Rep Hunter that put forth a vote on his own resolution to “cut and runâ€
So, the republicans put forth a resolution to “cut and run†in which they planned to vote down their own resolution making everybody think that they had just voted down Rep Murtha’s resolution.
The republicans thought that all of the democrats would vote for “cut and runâ€
To their shock, the democrats voted it down also.
So, any republican that says that democrats wnat to “cut and run†have just lost that talking point.
But, on the flip side watch for this to come from the republicans “Well, the democrats voted to keep our troops in Iraqâ€
November 19th, 2005 at 1:43 pmWoodward asks his source to come foward. We know that isn’t Rove because Rove will lie and deny till he dies.
Fitz is going to have to get Rove on his own. I have confidence in that he will and justice will be served.
November 19th, 2005 at 2:36 pmcloak dagger
When Al was alive and you bought one of his knives, you were buying
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm