DC Bubble wrapped Bob Woodward is not in any danger of giving heavyweight author Robert Caro a run for his money on well written presidential biographies. The only thing they have in common is a years long fixation on a president each chose to chronicle. Woodward does his from a self serving political infotainment insider Bush perspective while Caro strives for the true LBJ essence with a million word army of fab footnotes in an investigative fashion smarmy Woodward gave up hope on achieving. Woodward's "Bush Period", started with fawning to oops, public opinion is changing sharply negative - must change my take in the last one for continued long term stay on bestseller list.
President Bush's detestable presidency will receive its fourth Friday the 13th treatment next month in The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008 a $21.12 book Woodward penned while protecting his ongoing access to Bush cronies, especially inside
the Dick's Vice presidential suite. Woodward famously withheld information pertinent to America's security so his third sequel would not be compromised at the bookstores. It landed the journalistic ethically challenged Bob as a witness at the trial for convicted, then partially pardoned felon and vapid author Irving "Scooter" Libby, the shoot em in the face Veepsters piece-of-crap chief of staff.
Now Bob's unleashing on America his latest purported sussed out findings from the King Iraq Surge Sockpuppet, General David Petraeus with inside details on the callowness of the Bush administration and the access the general enjoyed as part of their seven year coup. His books have a breathless Marilyn Monroe tone as real life characters speak in hushed tones as if Woodward was right in the room at the time, his trademark. The fact that Woodward is/was a highranking executive at the Washington Post at the time he wrote his last book, knew Bush felons were lying, withheld info during the federal investigation while prattling on to Larry King and other DC outlets that there was no outing while sticking up for the Bush/Cheney clan, never made him think ethically or critically about the inconsistencies of what he was saying, doing and writing. Once an intrepid reporter who doggedly pursued the details of Watergate, he has gone on to hack for the Bush administration making money off of book
deals when concurrently deciding which reporters covered what for his newspaper. How Washington. And that's exactly the lens through which his work should be judged on September 8th even as much as his information exposes the question will always be what did he leave out and why.
President Bush's detestable presidency will receive its fourth Friday the 13th treatment next month in The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008 a $21.12 book Woodward penned while protecting his ongoing access to Bush cronies, especially inside
the Dick's Vice presidential suite. Woodward famously withheld information pertinent to America's security so his third sequel would not be compromised at the bookstores. It landed the journalistic ethically challenged Bob as a witness at the trial for convicted, then partially pardoned felon and vapid author Irving "Scooter" Libby, the shoot em in the face Veepsters piece-of-crap chief of staff. Now Bob's unleashing on America his latest purported sussed out findings from the King Iraq Surge Sockpuppet, General David Petraeus with inside details on the callowness of the Bush administration and the access the general enjoyed as part of their seven year coup. His books have a breathless Marilyn Monroe tone as real life characters speak in hushed tones as if Woodward was right in the room at the time, his trademark. The fact that Woodward is/was a highranking executive at the Washington Post at the time he wrote his last book, knew Bush felons were lying, withheld info during the federal investigation while prattling on to Larry King and other DC outlets that there was no outing while sticking up for the Bush/Cheney clan, never made him think ethically or critically about the inconsistencies of what he was saying, doing and writing. Once an intrepid reporter who doggedly pursued the details of Watergate, he has gone on to hack for the Bush administration making money off of book
deals when concurrently deciding which reporters covered what for his newspaper. How Washington. And that's exactly the lens through which his work should be judged on September 8th even as much as his information exposes the question will always be what did he leave out and why.
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