Politics Bob Woodward's new book...

[Lanny]

The Nobel (I'm assuming that's what you mean by Peace Prize) is given out by a committee in Norway and has nothing to do with journalism.

Journalism accolades are best known as Pulitzers. I'm sure there are others but Pulitzers are the best.

 

[MarAzul]

That's actually not true, POTUS just feels he should win it (for his meeting with Little Rocket Man that didn't accomplish anything) and I assume his base agrees. I suppose the Nobel Committee could be considering it (yeah right ) but we'll never know unless he wins it because they don't ever release their list of nominees.

I would give it very little chance, even after all goes as planned, if we are so fortunate.

 

[Spud147]

I would give it very little chance, even after all goes as planned, if we are so fortunate.

If he can figure out and solve the North Korea issue he deserves a Nobel! And I agree, that would be very fortunate for all of us.

 

[yankeesince59]

That's actually not true, POTUS just feels he should win it (for his meeting with Little Rocket Man that didn't accomplish anything) and I assume his base agrees. I suppose the Nobel Committee could be considering it (yeah right ) but we'll never know unless he wins it because they don't ever release their list of nominees.

...actually yes,...here you go;

http://fortune.com/2018/06/13/trump-nobel-peace-prize/

 

[DaLincolnJones]

...other than Trump, according to who?...Faux News?...Breitbart?

...most every account of Woodward I've ever read paints him in a completely different light. But be my guest, provide your list of detractors and I'll counter them with more.

Accusing their opponents of making stuff up is a typical trick of Trump's. Try finding some made up stuff before you make your accusations.

Naw guys, used the same wiki page you guys were on

• Woodward has been accused of exaggeration and fabrication regarding "Deep Throat," his Watergate informant. Ever since W. Mark Felt was announced as the true identity behind Deep Throat, John Dean[45] and Ed Gray,[46] in separate publications, have used Woodward's book All The President's Men and his published notes on his meetings with Deep Throat to argue that Deep Throat could not have been only Mark Felt. They argued that Deep Throat was a fictional composite made up of several Woodward sources, only one of whom was Felt. Gray, in his book In Nixon's Web, even went so far as to publish an e-mail and telephone exchange he had with Donald Santarelli, a Washington lawyer who was a Justice Department official during Watergate, in which Santarelli confirmed to Gray that he was the source behind statements Woodward recorded in notes he has attributed to Deep Throat.[47] However, Stephen Mielke, an archivist at the University of Texas who oversees the Woodward-Bernstein papers, said it is likely the page was misfiled under Felt because no source was identified. The original page of notes is in the Mark Felt file but "the carbon is located with the handwritten and typed notes attributed to Santarelli." Ed Gray said that Santarelli confirmed to him that he was the source behind the statements in the notes.[48]
• J. Bradford DeLong has noted considerable inconsistencies between the accounts of the making of Clinton economic policy described in Woodward's book Maestro and his book The Agenda.[49]
• Some of Woodward's critics accuse him of abandoning critical inquiry to maintain his access to high-profile political actors. Anthony Lewis called the style "a trade in which the great grant access in return for glory."[50] Christopher Hitchens accused Woodward of acting as "stenographer to the rich and powerful."[51]
• Writer Tanner Colby, who co-wrote a biography of John Belushi with the late actor's widow Judy, wrote in Slate that, while Woodward's frequently criticized 1984 book Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi is largely accurate in its description of events, Woodward either gets the context wrong or doesn't find any context at all. For example, Belushi's grandmother's funeral, which led him to make a serious effort to sober up, gets merely a paragraph in Woodward's retelling, while a 24-hour drug binge in Los Angeles goes on for eight pages simply because the limo driver was willing to talk to Woodward. "It's like someone wrote a biography of Michael Jordan in which all the stats and scores are correct, but you come away with the impression that Michael Jordan wasn't very good at playing basketball," he concluded. Because it was unique among Woodward's books in that it made no use of confidential or anonymous sources, Colby was able to interview many of the same sources that Woodward had used, making comparisons of their recollection of events to Woodward's accounting of them relatively easy.[52]
• Woodward believed the Bush administration's claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the war, and the publication of the book At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet led Woodward to engage in a rather tortuous account of the extent of his pre-war conversations with Tenet in an article in The New Yorker in which he also chastised New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd for being critical of him.[53]
• Woodward was also accused of fabricating a deathbed interview with CIA Director William Casey, as described in Veil. Critics say the interview simply could not have taken place as written in the book.[54][55][56][57] Robert M. Gates, Casey’s deputy at the time, in his book "From the Shadows", recounts speaking with Casey during this exact period. Gates directly quotes Casey saying 22 words, even more than the 19 words Woodward said Casey used with him.[58] The CIA’s internal report found that Casey "had forty-three meetings or phone calls with Woodward, including a number of meetings at Casey’s home with no one else present" during the period Woodward was researching his book.[59] Gates was also quoted saying, "When I saw him in the hospital, his speech was even more slurred than usual, but if you knew him well, you could make out a few words, enough to get sense of what he was saying."[60] Following Casey's death, President Ronald Reagan wrote: "[Woodward]'s a liar and he lied about what Casey is supposed to have thought of me."[61]

Commentator David Frum has said, perhaps partly tongue-in-cheek, that Washington officials can learn something about the way Washington works from Woodward's books: "From his books, you can draw a composite profile of the powerful Washington player. That person is highly circumspect, highly risk averse, eschews new ideas, flatters his colleagues to their face (while trashing them to Woodward behind their backs), and is always careful to avoid career-threatening confrontation. We all admire heroes, but Woodward's books teach us that those who rise to leadership are precisely those who take care to abjure heroism for themselves."[62]

Despite these criticisms and challenges, Woodward has been praised as an authoritative and balanced journalist. The New York Times Book Review said in 2004 that "No reporter has more talent for getting Washington's inside story and telling it cogently."[63]

 

[DaLincolnJones]

...anyone notice that in a few instances in the the "op-ed", that instead of saying "I am...." it says "WE are..."....so I'm assuming that there is more than ONE person in on this.

shmee never Trumpers.

Or could it be another made up source? We have seen a lot of that

 

[yankeesince59]

Naw guys, used the same wiki page you guys were on

• Woodward has been accused of exaggeration and fabrication regarding "Deep Throat," his Watergate informant. Ever since W. Mark Felt was announced as the true identity behind Deep Throat, John Dean[45] and Ed Gray,[46] in separate publications, have used Woodward's book All The President's Men and his published notes on his meetings with Deep Throat to argue that Deep Throat could not have been only Mark Felt. They argued that Deep Throat was a fictional composite made up of several Woodward sources, only one of whom was Felt. Gray, in his book In Nixon's Web, even went so far as to publish an e-mail and telephone exchange he had with Donald Santarelli, a Washington lawyer who was a Justice Department official during Watergate, in which Santarelli confirmed to Gray that he was the source behind statements Woodward recorded in notes he has attributed to Deep Throat.[47] However, Stephen Mielke, an archivist at the University of Texas who oversees the Woodward-Bernstein papers, said it is likely the page was misfiled under Felt because no source was identified. The original page of notes is in the Mark Felt file but "the carbon is located with the handwritten and typed notes attributed to Santarelli." Ed Gray said that Santarelli confirmed to him that he was the source behind the statements in the notes.[48]
• J. Bradford DeLong has noted considerable inconsistencies between the accounts of the making of Clinton economic policy described in Woodward's book Maestro and his book The Agenda.[49]
• Some of Woodward's critics accuse him of abandoning critical inquiry to maintain his access to high-profile political actors. Anthony Lewis called the style "a trade in which the great grant access in return for glory."[50] Christopher Hitchens accused Woodward of acting as "stenographer to the rich and powerful."[51]
• Writer Tanner Colby, who co-wrote a biography of John Belushi with the late actor's widow Judy, wrote in Slate that, while Woodward's frequently criticized 1984 book Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi is largely accurate in its description of events, Woodward either gets the context wrong or doesn't find any context at all. For example, Belushi's grandmother's funeral, which led him to make a serious effort to sober up, gets merely a paragraph in Woodward's retelling, while a 24-hour drug binge in Los Angeles goes on for eight pages simply because the limo driver was willing to talk to Woodward. "It's like someone wrote a biography of Michael Jordan in which all the stats and scores are correct, but you come away with the impression that Michael Jordan wasn't very good at playing basketball," he concluded. Because it was unique among Woodward's books in that it made no use of confidential or anonymous sources, Colby was able to interview many of the same sources that Woodward had used, making comparisons of their recollection of events to Woodward's accounting of them relatively easy.[52]
• Woodward believed the Bush administration's claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the war, and the publication of the book At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet led Woodward to engage in a rather tortuous account of the extent of his pre-war conversations with Tenet in an article in The New Yorker in which he also chastised New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd for being critical of him.[53]
• Woodward was also accused of fabricating a deathbed interview with CIA Director William Casey, as described in Veil. Critics say the interview simply could not have taken place as written in the book.[54][55][56][57] Robert M. Gates, Casey’s deputy at the time, in his book "From the Shadows", recounts speaking with Casey during this exact period. Gates directly quotes Casey saying 22 words, even more than the 19 words Woodward said Casey used with him.[58] The CIA’s internal report found that Casey "had forty-three meetings or phone calls with Woodward, including a number of meetings at Casey’s home with no one else present" during the period Woodward was researching his book.[59] Gates was also quoted saying, "When I saw him in the hospital, his speech was even more slurred than usual, but if you knew him well, you could make out a few words, enough to get sense of what he was saying."[60] Following Casey's death, President Ronald Reagan wrote: "[Woodward]'s a liar and he lied about what Casey is supposed to have thought of me."[61]

Commentator David Frum has said, perhaps partly tongue-in-cheek, that Washington officials can learn something about the way Washington works from Woodward's books: "From his books, you can draw a composite profile of the powerful Washington player. That person is highly circumspect, highly risk averse, eschews new ideas, flatters his colleagues to their face (while trashing them to Woodward behind their backs), and is always careful to avoid career-threatening confrontation. We all admire heroes, but Woodward's books teach us that those who rise to leadership are precisely those who take care to abjure heroism for themselves."[62]

Despite these criticisms and challenges, Woodward has been praised as an authoritative and balanced journalist. The New York Times Book Review said in 2004 that "No reporter has more talent for getting Washington's inside story and telling it cogently."[63]

lol, it's obvious you didn't even read what you copied and pasted...if you had, you surely would have omitted the very last line in what you pasted; Despite these criticisms and challenges, Woodward has been praised as an authoritative and balanced journalist. The New York Times Book Review said in 2004 that "No reporter has more talent for getting Washington's inside story and telling it cogently."[63

...but hey, as promised...enjoy;


Career recognition and awards
Although not a recipient in his own right, Woodward made crucial contributions to two Pulitzer Prizes won by The Washington Post. First, he and Bernstein were the lead reporters on Watergate and the Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.[8] He was also the main reporter for the Post's coverage of the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Post won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for 10 of its stories on the subject.[9]


Woodward at the National Press Club in 2002
Woodward himself has been a recipient of nearly every major American journalism award, including the Heywood Broun award (1972), Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting (1972 and 1986), Sigma Delta Chi Award (1973), George Polk Award (1972), William Allen White Medal (2000), and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on the Presidency (2002). In 2012, Colby College presented Woodward with the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism as well as an honorary doctorate.[10]

Woodward has authored or co-authored 18 nonfiction books in the past 35 years. All 18 have been national bestsellers and 12 of them have been No. 1 national nonfiction bestsellers—more No. 1 national nonfiction bestsellers than any contemporary author.

In his 1995 memoir, A Good Life, former Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee singled out Woodward in the foreword. "It would be hard to overestimate the contributions to my newspaper and to my time as editor of that extraordinary reporter, Bob Woodward—surely the best of his generation at investigative reporting, the best I've ever seen.... And Woodward has maintained the same position on top of journalism's ladder ever since Watergate."[11]

David Gergen, who had worked in the White House during the Richard Nixon and three subsequent administrations, said in his 2000 memoir, Eyewitness to Power, of Woodward's reporting, "I don't accept everything he writes as gospel—he can get details wrong—but generally, his accounts in both his books and in the Post are remarkably reliable and demand serious attention. I am convinced he writes only what he believes to be true or has been reliably told to be true. And he is certainly a force for keeping the government honest."[12]

In 2001, Woodward won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.[13]

Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard called Woodward "the best pure reporter of his generation, perhaps ever."[14] In 2003, Albert Hunt of The Wall Street Journal called Woodward "the most celebrated journalist of our age." In 2004, Bob Schieffer of CBS News said, "Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time. He may be the best reporter of all time."[15]

In 2014, Robert Gates former director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense, said that he wished he'd recruited Woodward into the CIA, saying, "He has an extraordinary ability to get otherwise responsible adults to spill [their] guts to him...his ability to get people to talk about stuff they shouldn't be talking about is just extraordinary and may be unique."[16]

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Woodward and Carl Bernstein were both assigned to report on the June 17, 1972, burglary of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in a Washington, D.C., office building called Watergate. Their work, under editor Ben Bradlee, became known for being the first to report on a number of political "dirty tricks" used by the Nixon re-election committee during his campaign for re-election. Their book about the scandal, All the President's Men, became a No. 1 bestseller and was later turned into a movie. The 1976 film, starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein, transformed the reporters into celebrities and inspired a wave of interest in investigative journalism.

The book and movie also led to the enduring mystery of the identity of Woodward's secretWatergate informant known as Deep Throat, a reference to the title of a popular pornographic movie at the time. Woodward said he would protect Deep Throat's identity until the man died or allowed his name to be revealed. For more than 30 years, only Woodward, Bernstein, and a handful of others knew the informant's identity until it was claimed by his family to Vanity Fair magazine to be former Federal Bureau of InvestigationAssociate Director W. Mark Felt in May 2005. Woodward immediately confirmed the veracity of this claim and subsequently published a book, titled The Secret Man, that detailed his relationship with Felt.

Woodward and Bernstein followed up with a second book on Watergate, entitled The Final Days (Simon and Schuster 1976), covering in extensive depth the period from November 1973 until President Nixon resigned in August 1974.

The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers are housed at the Harry Ransom Centerat the University of Texas at Austin.

 

[yankeesince59]

shmee never Trumpers.

Or could it be another made up source? We have seen a lot of that

..."made up"?...instead assuming stuff is "made up" why not actually take the time to research BEFORE spouting off?...it might just save you a lot of grief.

 

[MarAzul]

In 2014, Robert Gates former director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense, said that he wished he'd recruited Woodward into the CIA, saying, "He has an extraordinary ability to get otherwise responsible adults to spill [their] guts to him...his ability to get people to talk about stuff they shouldn't be talking about is just extraordinary and may be unique."[16]

Ha!

This is pretty funny.

 

[Spud147]

...here you go;

http://fortune.com/2018/06/13/trump-nobel-peace-prize/

That's not actually the committee, it's a couple right wing members of Norway's Progress Party who wrote a letter to the committee requesting a nomination. Some Republicans in the house wrote a letter to the committee as well. Actually I guess we're both right, what does an official nomination entail?

There's a possibility he could win this year, the awards are always given out on December 10th, but if he doesn't we won't actually know if he was actually considered by the committee as a nominee.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize/

 

[DaLincolnJones]

lol, it's obvious you didn't even read what you copied and pasted...if you had, you surely would have omitted the very last line in what you pasted; Despite these criticisms and challenges, Woodward has been praised as an authoritative and balanced journalist. The New York Times Book Review said in 2004 that "No reporter has more talent for getting Washington's inside story and telling it cogently."[63

...but hey, as promised...enjoy;


Career recognition and awards
Although not a recipient in his own right, Woodward made crucial contributions to two Pulitzer Prizes won by The Washington Post. First, he and Bernstein were the lead reporters on Watergate and the Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.[8] He was also the main reporter for the Post's coverage of the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Post won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for 10 of its stories on the subject.[9]


Woodward at the National Press Club in 2002
Woodward himself has been a recipient of nearly every major American journalism award, including the Heywood Broun award (1972), Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting (1972 and 1986), Sigma Delta Chi Award (1973), George Polk Award (1972), William Allen White Medal (2000), and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on the Presidency (2002). In 2012, Colby College presented Woodward with the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism as well as an honorary doctorate.[10]

Woodward has authored or co-authored 18 nonfiction books in the past 35 years. All 18 have been national bestsellers and 12 of them have been No. 1 national nonfiction bestsellers—more No. 1 national nonfiction bestsellers than any contemporary author.

In his 1995 memoir, A Good Life, former Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee singled out Woodward in the foreword. "It would be hard to overestimate the contributions to my newspaper and to my time as editor of that extraordinary reporter, Bob Woodward—surely the best of his generation at investigative reporting, the best I've ever seen.... And Woodward has maintained the same position on top of journalism's ladder ever since Watergate."[11]

David Gergen, who had worked in the White House during the Richard Nixon and three subsequent administrations, said in his 2000 memoir, Eyewitness to Power, of Woodward's reporting, "I don't accept everything he writes as gospel—he can get details wrong—but generally, his accounts in both his books and in the Post are remarkably reliable and demand serious attention. I am convinced he writes only what he believes to be true or has been reliably told to be true. And he is certainly a force for keeping the government honest."[12]

In 2001, Woodward won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.[13]

Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard called Woodward "the best pure reporter of his generation, perhaps ever."[14] In 2003, Albert Hunt of The Wall Street Journal called Woodward "the most celebrated journalist of our age." In 2004, Bob Schieffer of CBS News said, "Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time. He may be the best reporter of all time."[15]

In 2014, Robert Gates former director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense, said that he wished he'd recruited Woodward into the CIA, saying, "He has an extraordinary ability to get otherwise responsible adults to spill [their] guts to him...his ability to get people to talk about stuff they shouldn't be talking about is just extraordinary and may be unique."[16]

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Woodward and Carl Bernstein were both assigned to report on the June 17, 1972, burglary of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in a Washington, D.C., office building called Watergate. Their work, under editor Ben Bradlee, became known for being the first to report on a number of political "dirty tricks" used by the Nixon re-election committee during his campaign for re-election. Their book about the scandal, All the President's Men, became a No. 1 bestseller and was later turned into a movie. The 1976 film, starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein, transformed the reporters into celebrities and inspired a wave of interest in investigative journalism.

The book and movie also led to the enduring mystery of the identity of Woodward's secretWatergate informant known as Deep Throat, a reference to the title of a popular pornographic movie at the time. Woodward said he would protect Deep Throat's identity until the man died or allowed his name to be revealed. For more than 30 years, only Woodward, Bernstein, and a handful of others knew the informant's identity until it was claimed by his family to Vanity Fair magazine to be former Federal Bureau of InvestigationAssociate Director W. Mark Felt in May 2005. Woodward immediately confirmed the veracity of this claim and subsequently published a book, titled The Secret Man, that detailed his relationship with Felt.

Woodward and Bernstein followed up with a second book on Watergate, entitled The Final Days (Simon and Schuster 1976), covering in extensive depth the period from November 1973 until President Nixon resigned in August 1974.

The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers are housed at the Harry Ransom Centerat the University of Texas at Austin.

This is what cracks me up. You guys bash others for being selective, and then you find the one line in six bullet points stating that the guy is a bit loose with the truth, take it as proof that you are right..hahhaha

 

[rotary111]

More and more people are saying that he is unfit for office.....and the Republicans sit on their hands and try and keep it together behind the scenes fearing the embarrassment of admitting the truth about this clown. "Nothing to see here!"

If Woodward's book and this latest op-ed story are even close to being correct we should impeach him now.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

..."made up"?...instead assuming stuff is "made up" why not actually take the time to research BEFORE spouting off?...it might just save you a lot of grief.

Spouting off?

You offer an un named op ed piece as gospel?

 

[Spud147]

shmee never Trumpers.

Or could it be another made up source? We have seen a lot of that

There have been a lot of inflammatory books with factual inaccuracies (Fire and Fury, Unhinged, etc.) but Woodward is known for meticulously taping interviews and was speaking with former and current staffers for over 100 hours. I'm sure there are disgruntled ex-employees who are fanning the flames but I don't think Woodward is making up sources.

 

[MarAzul]

we should impeach him now.

Ha!
This would be quite a show. You and Maxine and few other fools ready to prove they are insane.

 

[yankeesince59]

That's not actually the committee, it's a couple right wing members of Norway's Progress Party who wrote a letter to the committee requesting a nomination. Some Republicans in the house wrote a letter to the committee as well. Actually I guess we're both right, what does an official nomination entail?

There's a possibility he could win this year, the awards are always given out on December 10th, but if he doesn't we won't actually know if he was actually considered by the committee as a nominee.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize/

...that's not what I originally said...please read again...all I said was that he had been "nominated" and he was.

 

[MarAzul]

When will Megan Kelley bring the final assault on Trump?
That ought bring out the final clarity needed to convince every liberal.

 

[yankeesince59]

Spouting off?

You offer an un named op ed piece as gospel?

...when did I say it was "gospel"?...I didn't...I posted it and you can choose to believe or not...but you didn't, you instead arbitrarillydismissed as "made up"...why would you think Woodward is lying and why are you acting like this is the first time Trump has been lambasted for what he is by a lot of credible people and exposed in other books?...again, you're grasping for straws and you have been since the beginning.

 

[yankeesince59]

There have been a lot of inflammatory books with factual inaccuracies (Fire and Fury, Unhinged, etc.) but Woodward is known for meticulously taping interviews and was speaking with former and current staffers for over 100 hours. I'm sure there are disgruntled ex-employees who are fanning the flames but I don't think Woodward is making up sources.

^^^This !

 

[DaLincolnJones]

There have been a lot of inflammatory books with factual inaccuracies (Fire and Fury, Unhinged, etc.) but Woodward is known for meticulously taping interviews and was speaking with former and current staffers for over 100 hours. I'm sure there are disgruntled ex-employees who are fanning the flames but I don't think Woodward is making up sources.

He more than likely did not make up sources, just embellished what was said as he has done in the past.

 

[yankeesince59]

He more than likely did not make up sources, just embellished what was said as he has done in the past.

...no, wrong again...he actually quoted people...there's a difference. Woodward has 100s of hours of tape recording to go by.

 

[yankeesince59]

...and oh, I know this is off topic but I just saw Sarah Sanders in a mini-dress...the fashion police should have busted her ass right there...I wanted to gouge my eyes out .

 

[DaLincolnJones]

...when did I say it was "gospel"?...I didn't...I posted it and you can choose to believe or not...but you didn't, you instead arbitrarillydismissed as "made up"...why would you think Woodward is lying and why are you acting like this is the first time Trump has been lambasted for what he is by a lot of credible people and exposed in other books?...again, you're grasping for straws and you have been since the beginning.

Okay, help me out here home fry, I can chose to believe it or not...so when I chose to not believe it, that is not allowed? Come on Bro..

I will clarify if I can.

The op ed piece from the NY Times, with no named sources I believe is sour grapes

Woodwards quotes are already being denied by those he has "quoted. He has in the past been accused of making stuff up..so if in fact people have been stealing papers off the desk of the President, there will be charges. If there are no charges, then that would make me tend to bvelieve those that deny Woodwards stuff.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

...no, wrong again...he actually quoted people...there's a difference. Woodward has 100s of hours of tape recording to go by.

Woodward was also accused of fabricating a deathbed interview with CIA Director William Casey

Woodward has been accused of exaggeration and fabrication regarding "Deep Throat," his Watergate informant.

Woodward believed the Bush administration's claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the war, and

Woodward either gets the context wrong or doesn't find any context at all

all quotes from wiki..the same source many here have used

 

[MarAzul]

I voted for Trump to do as he said he would as President.

This includes:

Stopping the illegal immigration at the boarder.

Improving the environment so that as many people as possible can get jobs in this country.
This included improving the competitiveness of the US in Business tax structure as compared to the rest of the world.
It also includes improving the job environment for Black people so that more could be able to feel free and successful.

The above also includes making trade fair for the US through out the world but especially with China.
Which also is tied into the next objective.

Prevent North Korea from being able to threaten the US with Nuclear weapons

Prevent Iran from being able to threaten the US and Israel with Nuclear weapons

Put people on the SCOUS that will read Constitutions and the laws as written.

All are remarkable better or moving in this direction.
It will be very hard to offend me while this work is in progress, with some already complete or way down the road.

Woodward or others that earn a living as loud mouths hold no influence here.

PS.
I knew he nor anyone else would be able to restore my healthcare I lost with the fiasco of the last administration.

 

[Spud147]

...that's not what I originally said...please read again...all I said was that he had been "nominated" and he was.

Okay, sure, under your definition of "nominated" Trump has been nominated and so has Putin for that matter. Whether either one made it on the short list for the committee to vote on we'll never know unless one of them wins it.

Given that criteria, would you consider writing a letter nominating me? It think it would look great on my resume, I'm a big fan of world peace, and I do my best to make nice on this Blazer board despite all the aggravating people and posts.

 

[CupWizier]

Woodward was also accused of fabricating a deathbed interview with CIA Director William Casey

Woodward has been accused of exaggeration and fabrication regarding "Deep Throat," his Watergate informant.

Woodward believed the Bush administration's claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the war, and

Woodward either gets the context wrong or doesn't find any context at all

all quotes from wiki..the same source many here have used

Question for you da jones. Do you have a red line when it comes to Trump? and if so, what would it be? From reading maris and marzy's posts it has become very apparent they have no red line and just wondering what yours might be.

 

[MarAzul]

despite all the aggravating people and posts.

Careful. This one is very difficult.

 

[yankeesince59]

Woodward was also accused of fabricating a deathbed interview with CIA Director William Casey

Woodward has been accused of exaggeration and fabrication regarding "Deep Throat," his Watergate informant.

Woodward believed the Bush administration's claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the war, and

Woodward either gets the context wrong or doesn't find any context at all

all quotes from wiki..the same source many here have used

...lol...see my previous statement.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Question for you da jones. Do you have a red line when it comes to Trump? and if so, what would it be? From reading maris and marzy's posts it has become very apparent they have no red line and just wondering what yours might be.

Okay, I will take this serious.

If he acted like hillery has done for years. She was the epitome of corrupt. The good news is that while she was able to act while being protected by her cronies and the media, Trump could never dream of getting away with a fraction.

If he turns against his base and ignores the direction that we asked for (WE being his supporters)

Actually acted against the constitution...not just the silly rhetoric shown by the dems, but something serious that was fact and could be proven