Bob Woodward is not on your side.

[BuyingThyme]

And he doesn't just happen to write books on the eves of elections.

You may recall that one of Bob's previous Bush books was literally promoted on the official White House website. Why do you suppose?

And don't forget his role in covering for Dick Cheney and Judy Miller. Why do you suppose?

Don't fall for any of this. Woodward works for this administration.

Welcome to October.

Surprise!

[Finder]

1. I disagree. I think he is anti-corruption, pro-constitution...

and is outside the sphere of partisanship.

[acmavm]

2. Bullshit, he's a neocon. He's covered for this administration

throughout thick and thin. He lied in regard to the Plame investigation.

He just needs money to support his lifestyle and writing is how he gets it. He'll do whatever is necessary to get another paycheck.

[BuyingThyme]

3. You have a lot to learn about Bob Woodward.

Why do you suppose he called the imprisonment of Judy Miller a witch hunt, etc., while pretending to know nothing about it?

"Anti-corruption"? How 'bout Uncle Corruption.

[AngryOldDem]

7. Exactly

This is NOT the Bob Woodward of the Nixon years. If it had been, this administration would have been toast a couple of years back.

He has become one of the top apologists for Bushco, and I think it's a damned shame. He spent whatever credibility he had a couple of books back.

[BuyingThyme]

9. Before he inserted himself into the Libby investigation,

he actually said he would take Miller's place in jail if he could.

As it turns out, he should have been in there with her.

Imagine what this guy was thinking at the time he said that.

[AngryOldDem]

10. Oh, I can just imagine....

...something along the lines of, "there but for the grace of God, go I," perhaps?

[Finder]

14. I think he is subtle and documents the dots objectively...

for others to connect.

I think many journalists feel the same way about Judy Miller's jailing regardless of their political leanings.

[BuyingThyme]

15. I think your perception is what makes him so dangerous.

[acmejack]

4. he once was.

But no longer. Events have proven that to be the case. You simply cannot defend your statement, whereas the OP is has history on his side.

[nam78_two]

8. nope-he is one of their boys now

I don't think he and Bernstein have much to do with each other anymore...

[stanwyck]

12. Not when I saw him on CSPAN's

Washington Journal. He was pure neocon. He got seduced by Bushian attention. The Bushies welcomed him into their cabal, invited him to a few dinners, threw some meetings his way, and his panties were off.

[Jacobin]

20. That was 30 years ago. He's now a neo-con fuck

Constantly whoring for the war, worshipping Bush (read some of his latest drivel), oh and now that his glorious war isn't going so well, he's all like blaming it on the WH for not 'doing it properly', as if an illegal, immoral, war could be 'done properly'

[KG]

29. bob woodwards only loyalty is to his bank account.

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[blm]

5. I agree, but he also may be worried he banked too much of his credibility

with the Bush family, and fears going under with them as they are close to being exposed - he needs to add some REAL credibility to his account before that happens.

Here's hoping there is SOME honest tidbit we can use in his latest attempt to downplay the fascist grabs of the BFEE.

[Marr]

6. No kidding- Bob Woodward is a neocon.

I believe a god damned thing he says, or writes.

[mtnester]

11. But Bob really wants your money

I shelled out for that last book of his dammit, thinking it would be a revelation...it certainly was

And I know how the phrase goes:

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

He will not get another DIME of my money. And what did I do with "Plan of Attack" you may ask? Gave it more than it deserved...a burial in a hole in my back yard. So as not to confuse any anthropologists of the future, I took a Sharpie and wrote "piece of crap from a piece of shit" on the front cover.

[Sequoia]

16. You're a riot!!! I can just see you doing it too!

I was always a little miffed that Bernstein didn't get the credit he deserved. Not one of "them" I guess. Just a "poor boy who's story's seldom told."

[mtnester]

25. I do stuff like this ALL the time...and since anthropology /archeology

are hard tasks I do not want any confusion over why they may have found this book buried...I mean, we could certainly use some more clues on lets say the building of the pyramids, the Nazca lines, the Stones of Baalbeck, Stonhenge, Atlantis and Camelot (where are they dang it!),Avebury, Rollright Stones, Easter Island, the Stones of Ica, crystal skulls, (stop me I could go on forever).

I want to make sure they know it is a crap book. I have buried stuff all over the place in my time, with notes and inside containers, with a note on even why I buried it in a specific container.

Sometimes you can have fun...weird fun is only in the eyes of the beholder. :)

Now, tell me what this primitive man was drawing!

[Sequoia]

28. I'll have to sleep on it. Interesting.

[w4rma]

13. Does it matter? There are much much much worse. (nt)

[BuyingThyme]

17. I don't think there are any worse.

[NYCGirl]

18. Don't let Carl Bernstein hear you say that:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/454151p-382164c.html

Former Washington Post reporter Bernstein - a featured player at Monday night's celeb-glutted dramatic reading of "All the President's Men" to raise money for the Naked Angels Theater Company - brought the show to a crashing halt after emcee Sam Seder, a host on the financially bankrupt Air America radio network, ranted about Bernstein's fellow Watergate sleuth.

"It's appropriate that Bob Woodward isn't here tonight," Seder sniped from the stage at Skylight Studios before slamming the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and the news media in general, for allegedly being soft on the Bush White House.

—snipped—

With the performance of William Goldman's Oscar-winning screenplay well under way, Bernstein delayed his first line (as metropolitan editor Harry Rosenfeld) to announce: "I take vigorous exception to what was just said about my friend and colleague Bob Woodward."

Calling Seder's remarks "wholly inappropriate," Bernstein said: "Most of what we know about the Bush White House comes from Bob Woodward's reporting." As for the unraveling of the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon's presidency, "We wouldn't even be here tonight if it weren't for Bob Woodward."

[Finder]

19. Have you read his books? n/t

[BuyingThyme]

21. Yes. Not all of them, but more than most I'd say.

As I recall, he's very good at quoting people who cannot speak (or write, or respond to family members).

[Marie26]

22. Bob Woodward is on Bob Woodward's side

I don't trust him for a second.

[Beaverhausen]

23. have you seen this about his appearance on 60 Minutes on SUnday?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/28/60minutes/main2047607.shtml

CBS) Veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward tells Mike Wallace that the Bush administration has not told the truth regarding the level of violence, especially against U.S. troops, in Iraq. He also reveals key intelligence that predicts the insurgency will grow worse next year.

In Wallace’s interview with Woodward, to be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. ET/PT, the reporter also claims that Henry Kissenger is among those advising Mr. Bush.

According to Woodward, insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact the administration has kept secret. "It’s getting to the point now where there are eight-, nine-hundred attacks a week. That's more than 100 a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces," says Woodward.

morea the link

[BuyingThyme]

24. Is that news to anybody? No, it's a hook.

The lies are already out there.

Bob will explain why lying is so important to our president and our country. Bob will explain that sacrifices must be made. Bob will explain that the Vietnam lies were not big enough to lead our country to "victory." And Bob will explain that that "victory" can only be achieved through absolute "resolve."

Oh boy.

ON EDIT: resolve = lies

[Generator]

26. Mole ! Mole!

[BuyingThyme]

27. kcik