Bob Woodward's new book FEAR

[Dill]

(09-06-2018, 08:11 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Wonder if media matters likes him now.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/01/woodward-as-liberal-icon-not-exactly/192862

Too close to Bush. Yes. "10 Days in September" must be a painful memory to Woodward.

I think he has been trying to present himself as "fair and balanced" over the last 20 years; but it is certainly a weakness in his judgment that he could not see problems down the road when Bush was linking Iraq to Afghanistan before the latter had even been invaded. At the very least Woodward saw a "strong leader" where the rest of us saw a guy being, or letting himself be, played.

I don't see Woodward putting outright lies in the mouths of "senior officials" though. The smoke is there in the WH, billowing up in dense, black clouds. Up to us to judge whether there is a fire.