One HUGE DIFFERENCE ...
One is a Private Citizen ...
The Other is The Fucking Joke of The Earth
HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO NOT KNOW WHAT WOODWARD DOES for LIVING?
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One HUGE DIFFERENCE ...
One is a Private Citizen ...
The Other is The Fucking Joke of The Earth
I know you are private citizen. The other description of yourself is quite evident.
I understand your need to deflect ...
?? Hitting the MD 20/20 early Bourbon?
Do it for everyone's sake and don't quote Truthie. I'd rather keep dunces in the corner where they belong.
christiefan915
Catalyst
Did you miss this thread by another RW who admits that trump said publicly what Woodward said in the book? https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?148721-So-now-we-know-the-Woodyard-news-is-old-news!
But Trump made no secret of his effort to keep America calm, telling reporters on March 30, “The statements I made are: I want to keep the country calm. I don’t want to panic in the country.”
christiefan915
Catalyst
My language skills are better than trump's, Mr. Earl. But if they weren't I'd take a few hours to look up speeches from great orators like Churchill and FDR and follow their pattern for delivering bad news.
Woodward is a highly respected political journalist. He taped everyone. He has proof. He ran the tapes. Trump downplayed the Trump virus from the beginning, and he still is. Many Americans died due to that decision. There is no space for debate. Bob played the tapes in public.
TexanManWithPlans
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Wrong again; anyone who whines with stupid CNN talking points are. Are you capable of coherent thoughts?
You don't think whining about everything Trump does isn't being whiny? Dumbass.
So now you're a whiny lying dumbass. Yay you!
Says the man who whines about everything.
Excellent. Thanks Sailor
There's nothing shocking about Bob Woodward's new book
Matthew Walther
Sept. 10, 2020
The fact Bob Woodward has written another book about the current occupant of the White House should be greeted with roughly the level of enthusiasm reserved for such annual or semi-annual non-events as the Biennial Conference of the American Hippotherapy Association or the Pro Bowl. I would be tempted to suggest that the latest affectless, indifferently written Woodward volume is a matter of at most seasonal interest, like the early September appearance of Halloween candy in supermarkets, except that unlike the former, Rage is unlikely to bring pleasure to any living American.
This is true with two exceptions. The first is the only class of persons likely to be aware of the book's existence, namely Woodward's fellow journalists and the rapidly aging subset of upper-middle-class white liberals who will purchase and perhaps even read parts of it. In these circles Rage will be feverishly and uncritically discussed and tweeted out in snippets — all five or so pages of a total 480 capable of arousing even minimal if still largely feigned enthusiasm — until it is promptly and inexorably forgotten. (Who now can remember a single thing "reported" in the vast shelf of books he wrote about the administrations of Bill Clinton, the two Bushes, and Barack Obama?) The second is Woodward himself, who can somehow never get over his luck at finding a vindictive FBI agent passed over for promotion willing to give him the time of day. Verily I say, he has his reward.
Hence my inability to get worked up about the 52-second snippet of conversation between two septuagenarians released amid a great deal of manufactured outrage on Wednesday afternoon. If reports are to be believed, this fragment from Woodward's "explosive new book" (the exact phrase that has been used to describe very nearly every book the man has published in my lifetime) is evidence of a — get this — "cover-up" of the not exactly secret virus that emerged in Wuhan last fall. Here is an exact transcript of the exchange that has already given rise to to hundreds of thousands of words of meaningless commentary. As far as I can tell, the only noteworthy thing about it is President Trump's mistaken impression that the virus, whose average victim is older than the life expectancy, poses a meaningful (as in greater than influenza, which killed nearly 2,000 Americans aged 17 or younger in its 2017-18 season) risk to younger persons.
Maybe I missed something. Did you catch it, ladies and gentlemen, the exact moment when Nixon, sorry, I mean Trump, confessed his crimes on tape to the world's best-known political reporter, just as (remember that we spent three years pretending to believe this!) he once initiated the hacking of email accounts associated with various sordid personalities involved in Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign during a live television interview in the middle of a political convention?
There are, I suppose, people who actually inhabit this reality, just as there are people who once believed that George W. Bush was a war criminal and the worst president in American history and did so up until roughly the minute he started sharing cough drops with the wife of one of his successors. One longs for the day — who could deny its sweet inevitability? — when they rhapsodize about the decency and tolerance of the earliest eventual occupant of the Oval Office to endorse same-sex civil partnerships.
Why do presidents talk to Woodward? Is it some kind of tradition, cloying but innocuous like the White House Turkey Pardon? His modus operandi is by now fairly well established: Speak to him because if you do not he will publish hundreds of pages of decontextualized gossip from disgruntled agenda-driven current or ex-employees. He will in fact probably do so regardless of what you say to him and when, but why spoil the fun?
What Woodward does is not journalism. It is, as Joan Didion memorably put it, "political pornography." His books rightly line the outdoor free piles of every used bookstore in the country, their unread (but occasionally signed pages) no longer fit even to gather dust, but demoted to soaking up the rain.
Maybe he should start publishing them in the spring.
https://theweek.com/articles/936808/theres-nothing-shocking-about-bob-woodwards-new-book
Whoa. Woodward owns your ass!
I posted that long before anyone else. And? What does that have to do with Woodward not bringing that up to the country if it was that important? As a "journalist"? Why wait to sell his book.
Actually Frank he owns yours and every other gullible Democrat.
John Barron
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christiefan915
Catalyst
trump said it openly months before the book was released so why are RWs excoriating Woodward for repeating trump's words? You guys are ignoring trump's own comments just to deflect from them and you're making Woodward the scapegoat.
It's the time-honored fascist way of killing the messenger. Just yell "Fake news" and it magically erases whatever despicable thing the Toadstool did this time.
Trump was thinking of himself. He has not shown a scintilla of interest in the people. He thought he could cover up and ignore the Trump virus. He certainly did not stop a panic. There were grocery shelves emptied, toilet paper and food hoarded and people getting gouged on masks. If you read the posts here you would see how it was not being ignored. It was well known and the people were scared.
How do we distinguish between the negroes supporting BLM violence and the little nig nog that walked up and shot the cops? They are the same fucking savages! LOL
The Entire Planet Earth knows who Bob Woodward is and what he does for a living ...
[h=1]If Trump spills these kind of career-destroying secrets to a REPORTER...[/h]
... imagine the things he's told an experienced intelligence officer like Vladimir Putin.
Woodward calls him up and Trump's like, "Sure, let me allow you to record me telling you everything I know about this deadly, airborne virus, even though I'm going to go out there and tell the American people the exact opposite because surely THAT won't come back to bite me in the ass at a later date."
If he is THAT FUCKING DUMB in private interview with a reporter, imagine what kind of information Putin has been able to extract from him... without even trying.
Not everything in Woodward's book was based upon NOTHING. Such as suggesting that the POTUS was hiding information and downplaying the Virus......when the WHO did not confirm that it might be passed on by human to human contact UNITL JUNE 2020...........There is one thing that Woodward reported that had merit..........When asked what King Jong-Un thought about OBAMA.....Woodard quotes the North Korean leader as saying......"......oh, him? He's an ASSHOLE......a MONKEY with a RED BUMHOLE".
