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Reader Supported News / By William Boardman
Famed Watergate Reporter Is Losing His Marbles, Says Obama Should Threaten Iran More
What's up with Bob Woodward's war-mongering?
March 9, 2013 |
When a veteran Navy intelligence analyst gets his knickers in a loud public twist over the number of U.S. nuclear-strike capable aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, one might first enjoy the spectacle but then wonder: why such carryings-on to raise the military threat against Iran?
When the veteran Navy intelligence analyst turns out to be Bob Woodward, who has a national audience from his platform at the Washington Post, serious observors might well wonder what the motive for this misleading war-mongering might be (beyond apparent editorial policy at the Post).
But overt war-mongering quickly became a non-issue for most of what passes for the American journalistic intelligentsia, as twitter-heads of all persuasions were promptly distracted by the shiny objects of alleged and imaginary threats from the White House (gasp!). Finding the threat hidden in an apology failed to fool the mainstream media majority.
The actual news behind this empty-headed media kabuki about fake intimidation of the press was actually reported (and largely ignored) on February 6, when NBC ran with this false headline: Navy to pull aircraft carrier from Persian Gulf over budget worries. The text quickly revealed that the Navy wasnt pulling an aircraft carrier from the Persian Gulf, it was simply NOT sending a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, under a two-carrier policy ordered by Defense Secretary Robert Gates in 2010. ......................(more)
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pacalo
(24,721 posts)Woodward is carrying water for the neo-cons, no doubt.
Is the Obama administration threatening a peaceful approach to Iran?
No wonder Woodward is losing it.
randome
(34,845 posts)Something is 'off' with the man.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)His life is over, might as well go with a bang!
MattBaggins
(7,897 posts)Everyone gave him a pass for supposedly "breaking" the Nixon scandals.
Bullshit. Woodward was chosen because he is such a Rube. He was the best useful idiot deepthroat could find. Just smart enough to get the story out; just dumb enough not to dig any deeper.
UTUSN
(70,639 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)they were lost a long, long time ago.
Plus, he rode on Bernstein's coattails. Woodward wouldn't know journalism if it bit him in the ass.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Some things become perfectly obvious with the passage of time. The brains of that outfit was Carl Bernstein.
As far as I know, Bernstein has never commented on the bizarre behavior and statements made by the man who shared his by-line. I wonder what he really thinks whenever Woodward shoots off his mouth with some inane gibberish:
1) Just shut up, man. You are ruining our reputation.
2) Just keep talking. Every time you open your mouth, it makes me look that much better.