Woodward is So Cozy With White House -

[otohara]

he can't help but be all nicey, nicey and evasive when talking about Mr. Boosh, I don't trust him as he sits there and says, "oh yes, Watergate would happen today" You betcha!. As where Carl Bernstein is more open and truthful, but then he doesn't hang with Mr. Boosh and Mr. Rove.

I wonder why?

Who is the republican and who is the democrat?

Slam dunk it's not Bernstein.

Stewart was amazing and I want to have his baby.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. Woodward is a Republican

my guess is Bernstein is a Dem.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Yep. It did seem very obvious.

[kestrel91316]

4. Woodward is a Bush loyalist and apologist.

[Hissyspit]

3. Woodward had excellent access to WH and didn't uncover

OR really cover any of the plethora of scandals. We do a better job than he does. He is a joke.

And a Republican, of course. Bernstein is a Democrat, I believe.

[Wetzelbill]

6. Bob has become a court stenographer

It makes him look like a big shot and he can sell books, but the Bob Woodward of thirty years ago would be ashamed.

[Hissyspit]

8. Absolutely.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. I am disgusted and at the same time saddened by him. He is

as bad as Novak. Playing footsie with this criminal instead of exposing him.

[Garbo 2004]

5. Woodward's access to those in power is the key to his suckup..cess.

To put it crudely. Read his account of how he struck up and maintained a friendship with Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) long before Watergate. It's creepy, if his account is to be believed.

[Hissyspit]

7. He had the biggest stories of his life at his lap the pat four years or so

and blew it, because he had no realistic critical view of these Bushco democracy corrupters (not unlike most Americans, apparently) - bought into all the surface qualities and the shallow mythologies.

[otohara]

12. Bought Into? Whoa It's Hard To Believe He's That Stupid

Bush yes, but Woodward is one of the smart guys, right? I guess when you're republican, your brain and your conscious fades away when the biggie bucks start rolling in. Even if you're Bob Woodward.

[Garbo 2004]

13. "Bought into" or isn't that just his gig? He wouldn't get that access if

they thought he would actually deconstruct their mythology and reveal what's really behind the curtain.

[JohnyCanuck]

9. Woodward, the Washington Post and the Bushes

Secret admirers: The Bushes and the Washington Post, Part 1 by Michael Hasty

Secret Admirers: The Bushes and the Washington Post, Part 2 by Michael Hasty

Snip from Part 2

The most important propaganda stage the Post has built for George W to act the role of "president" upon was, of course, what the corporate media still prefers to portray as the "defining moment" of Junior's reign—the events of September 11. The challenge was made more difficult by Bush's Fredo Corleone performance on the day the attacks occurred. After acting clueless enough to dawdle in front of a classroom of second-graders for nearly a half-hour following the crash of the second plane, he then spent the rest of the day flying erratically around the country ("Just trying to get out of harm's way," as he later told a reporter), and appearing perplexed and too small for his suit as he addressed a national television audience that night.

This was a job for Superman—which the Post provided in the form of its premier Washington insider, presidential chronicler and US Navy Intelligence veteran, the legendary Watergate reporter, Bob Woodward. Along with Post reporter Dan Balz, Woodward employed his impeccable journalistic fellatio in an eight-part, front-page series of articles giving a moment-to-moment White House account of the first days of the "war on terror," inflating the image of a cowardly dauphin into that of a credibly decisive commander-in-chief. The articles became the basis for Woodward's subsequent bestseller, "Bush At War"—which is probably best viewed as a sequel to his book about the first Gulf War, "The Commanders," featuring many of the same characters.

Woodward's relationship to the Bush family is particularly interesting (see Part 1 of this series for more details). For the uninitiated, Woodward fairly successfully inoculated himself from any future suspicion that he might be too close to the subjects of his writing with his historic coverage of the Watergate scandal. In the matrix of the corporate media, Woodward is still portrayed as the archetypal intrepid investigative reporter who, with his scruffy partner, Carl Bernstein, spoke truth to power and brought down a president.

In the real world, Woodward has proven to be uncannily close to the highest centers of power.

[gumby]

11. Woodward is Military Intellegence, imho.

Bernstein is a reporter.

Watergate was an 'inside job.'

[wisteria]

14. Woodwork is currently doing another Bush book, he has to

be guarded. He may also like Bush- who knows. I agreed with and thought Carl Bernstein came off as very interesting and honest in his assessments.