The Battle of Bob Woodward
Which is why the hostility directed toward Woodward by the punks from the kindergarten klass of 1990 is so laughable, since they wouldn’t know a story if it came up and tried to change their red diapers for them. Mistaking ideology for ethics, the Juicers are incapable of understanding what the function of journalism used to be; hence their attack on Woodward for daring to correct the Emperor Hussein while the rest of them pull down paychecks from the Ministry of Propaganda and guard against any deviance from the prevailing orthodoxy, whatever it happens to be on that particular day.
I have no doubt that, like Lee and Meade at Gettysburg, Woodward blundered into this fight — he wasn’t looking to start something, just articulating the unexceptionable truth that, based on his reporting, the sequester was Obama’s idea, and that it was the height of hypocrisy for the president to rail against it and try to pin it on the GOP. (That tactic, by the way, is failing.) But here he is — even invited to speak at CPAC!
But now that the fight’s here, let’s have it. I think it’s entirely likely that the journalism I was taught (on the job, by the way, not in a classroom) is dead, having fallen victim to the radicalization of the universities, to mad credentialism, and to society’s overall abdication of moral standards in favor of “non-judgmentalism” and “fairness.” And, of course, the satanic code that makes all this possible, “political correctness” — a term worthy of the Gulag Archipelago.
Lefties used to say that sunlight is the best disinfectant. Now they run from it like exploding vampires. But as my friend Bill Whittle likes to point out, all it takes is the light from a single candle to destroy a universe of darkness. And God’s first words in Genesis are, after all, “let there be light.”
Whose side are you on?
They apparently realized the "narrative" wouldn't be sufficient to sell the guy especially considering the thinness of his resume and dearth of real world experience. So they invented a whole other being: the lightworker; the intellectual whose mental acuity lifts him to a plane far above that to which we ordinary mortals are consigned; the unflappable cool cat; the smartest man to ever aspire to the presidency; the god standing above the country, above the world; the soaring rhetorician who is quite simply the greatest orator of our time; the sublimely gifted writer who produced perhaps the finest memoir in the history of memoirs (they even referred to it as a presidential memoir better even than US... (show more)
They apparently realized the "narrative" wouldn't be sufficient to sell the guy especially considering the thinness of his resume and dearth of real world experience. So they invented a whole other being: the lightworker; the intellectual whose mental acuity lifts him to a plane far above that to which we ordinary mortals are consigned; the unflappable cool cat; the smartest man to ever aspire to the presidency; the god standing above the country, above the world; the soaring rhetorician who is quite simply the greatest orator of our time; the sublimely gifted writer who produced perhaps the finest memoir in the history of memoirs (they even referred to it as a presidential memoir better even than US Grant's); the Alpha and Omega; the last, best hope; the combination of Lincoln, FDR and Ronald Reagan. And, say, aren't his pants nicely creased. It was, in a word, revolting.
And when Sarah Palin threatened to derail the Obama train, the Forth Estate descended on Alaska like a pack of snarling wolves smelling fresh blood. Their prime directive: destroy at all costs. In the meanwhile, the only journalist I can recall who spent any time in Chicago digging into Obama's elusive past was the dogged Stanley Kurtz who was thwarted at seemingly every turn and whose findings were virtually ignored by his colleagues.
The 2008 campaign was a watershed moment in modern journalism. Seldom had it been so yellow or its prose so purple. What modicum of respect I still had for the so-called working press vanished and journalistic integrity became the biggest oxymoron in the lexicon.
So, does anybody recall what Bob Woodward was up to at the time?
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That having been said, Nixon did no worse than any of his predecessors, e.g., JFK, or successors, e.g. Johnson, Clinton and of course the current occupant. What Nixon was guilty of was angering the leftist, marxist press during the Alger Hiss trial. And for that he must be destroyed. And Woodward and Bernstein were the hatchet men. That's all.
For all his supposed journalistic prowess where the hell was Woodward during Clinton's multiple malfeasances? Or during the first 4 years of the current abomination? He is by no means an ally of ours and personally I don't care... (show more)
That having been said, Nixon did no worse than any of his predecessors, e.g., JFK, or successors, e.g. Johnson, Clinton and of course the current occupant. What Nixon was guilty of was angering the leftist, marxist press during the Alger Hiss trial. And for that he must be destroyed. And Woodward and Bernstein were the hatchet men. That's all.
For all his supposed journalistic prowess where the hell was Woodward during Clinton's multiple malfeasances? Or during the first 4 years of the current abomination? He is by no means an ally of ours and personally I don't care what happens to him, other than that I take pleasure in any 'friendly-fire' incidents among my enemies. (show less)
You guys don't like Obama. Everybody gets that. Simply assuming that every story critical of the administration just has to be true, however, seals your reputation as ideologues disinterested in reality. It doesn't help when Walsh writes "It’s axiomatic today that “mainstream” journalists are corrupt tools of the liberal ascendancy," which is another example of conservatives operating with eyes wide shut. Aside from the dubiousness of the proposition that mainstream journalism is really liberal in the post-Reagan era—they certainly rolled over for Bush in the... (show more)
You guys don't like Obama. Everybody gets that. Simply assuming that every story critical of the administration just has to be true, however, seals your reputation as ideologues disinterested in reality. It doesn't help when Walsh writes "It’s axiomatic today that “mainstream” journalists are corrupt tools of the liberal ascendancy," which is another example of conservatives operating with eyes wide shut. Aside from the dubiousness of the proposition that mainstream journalism is really liberal in the post-Reagan era—they certainly rolled over for Bush in the run up to the Iraqi war—Walsh doesn't seem to know what axiomatic means. Perhaps he belongs to the Thomas Friedman school of idiotic prose.
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Woodward had an hour long shout fest over the phone with Obama's chief economic adviser Gene Sperling after which Sperling sent an apologetic email BUT told Woodward he would "regret" making his point about the origin of the sequester.
(if you want to see the babbling brook Sperling on video, go to the link directly below...he's an idiot (that's an "attack" I'm making)
Although I didn't follow it too closely (intentionally), subsequently Andrew Sullivan wrote that Woodward was crazy and others wrote that it was time for him to die.
If you don't call those reactions from Obama's cabal of Useful Idiots "attacks", then you and I don't inhabit the same planet.
But we knew that.
Woodward had an hour long shout fest over the phone with Obama's chief economic adviser Gene Sperling after which Sperling sent an apologetic email BUT told Woodward he would "regret" making his point about the origin of the sequester.
(if you want to see the babbling brook Sperling on video, go to the link directly below...he's an idiot (that's an "attack" I'm making)
Although I didn't follow it too closely (intentionally), subsequently Andrew Sullivan wrote that Woodward was crazy and others wrote that it was time for him to die.
If you don't call those reactions from Obama's cabal of Useful Idiots "attacks", then you and I don't inhabit the same planet.
But we knew that.
(don't answer that question, it's too depressing)
<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/sperling-admits-obama-misled-debate-president-did-propose-sequester_705015.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/sperling-admits-obama-misled-debate-president-did-propose-sequester_705015.html</a>
Sperling Admits Obama Misled in Debate: The President Did Propose the Sequester
(don't answer that question, it's too depressing)
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Sperling Admits Obama Misled in Debate: The President Did Propose the Sequester
They apparently realized the "narrative" wouldn't be sufficient to sell the guy especially considering the thinness of his resume and dearth of real world experience. So they invented a whole other being: the lightworker; the intellectual whose mental acuity lifts him to a plane far above that to which we ordinary mortals are consigned; the unflappable cool cat; the smartest man to ever aspire to the presidency; the god standing above the country, above the world; the soaring rhetorician who is quite simply the greatest orator of our time; the sublimely gifted writer who produced perhaps the finest memoir in the history of memoirs (they even referred to it as a presidential memoir better even than US... (show more)
They apparently realized the "narrative" wouldn't be sufficient to sell the guy especially considering the thinness of his resume and dearth of real world experience. So they invented a whole other being: the lightworker; the intellectual whose mental acuity lifts him to a plane far above that to which we ordinary mortals are consigned; the unflappable cool cat; the smartest man to ever aspire to the presidency; the god standing above the country, above the world; the soaring rhetorician who is quite simply the greatest orator of our time; the sublimely gifted writer who produced perhaps the finest memoir in the history of memoirs (they even referred to it as a presidential memoir better even than US Grant's); the Alpha and Omega; the last, best hope; the combination of Lincoln, FDR and Ronald Reagan. And, say, aren't his pants nicely creased. It was, in a word, revolting.
And when Sarah Palin threatened to derail the Obama train, the Forth Estate descended on Alaska like a pack of snarling wolves smelling fresh blood. Their prime directive: destroy at all costs. In the meanwhile, the only journalist I can recall who spent any time in Chicago digging into Obama's elusive past was the dogged Stanley Kurtz who was thwarted at seemingly every turn and whose findings were virtually ignored by his colleagues.
The 2008 campaign was a watershed moment in modern journalism. Seldom had it been so yellow or its prose so purple. What modicum of respect I still had for the so-called working press vanished and journalistic integrity became the biggest oxymoron in the lexicon.
So, does anybody recall what Bob Woodward was up to at the time?
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This week the Leftist machine ramped itself up to thoroughly discredit Woodward, to "Palinize" him, as it has been attempting to do to Marco Rubio for some time now.
I am ashamed of my country when total idiots like Andrew Sullivan, Chrissy Matthews, Ezra Klein et al. and etc. even have a voice, let alone an audience.
This week the Leftist machine ramped itself up to thoroughly discredit Woodward, to "Palinize" him, as it has been attempting to do to Marco Rubio for some time now.
I am ashamed of my country when total idiots like Andrew Sullivan, Chrissy Matthews, Ezra Klein et al. and etc. even have a voice, let alone an audience.
And Mr. Walsh, "Lefties used to say that sunlight is the best disinfectant. Now they run from it like exploding vampires." I think that is worthy of a Pulitzer prize.
But to me, the true face of today's old media is Chris Matthews making an on air call to a sitting President for "marching orders." The fact that such an announcement is not a fire-able offense is unbelievable.
And Mr. Walsh, "Lefties used to say that sunlight is the best disinfectant. Now they run from it like exploding vampires." I think that is worthy of a Pulitzer prize.
But to me, the true face of today's old media is Chris Matthews making an on air call to a sitting President for "marching orders." The fact that such an announcement is not a fire-able offense is unbelievable.