Famed investigative journalist Bob Woodward responded to criticism he is facing for taking months into the COVID-19 pandemic to reveal how President Trump privately acknowledged that it was “deadly stuff” early this year — which starkly contrasted his public downplaying of the novel coronavirus — during an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday.
Seriously full of shit.
he needed time to ensure the accuracy of the President’s private comments from February.
“He tells me this, and I’m thinking, ‘Wow, that’s interesting, but is it true?’ Trump says things that don’t check out, right?” Woodward told the AP.
He needed that time to “check things out.” The fact that his book comes out in six days is totally coincidental.
That is an extraordinarily bad explanation. Are you kidding me? There was loads of information at the time that the virus spread through the air and was quite deadly. Who are you trying to fool with this crap, Bob? You just wanted to wait until you could make money off of it.
There is value in letting Trump continue the recorded interviews all the way through July. We’ll see if it truly pays off.
Woodward is a businessman and access journalism is his game. When you monetize news this is what you get: individual or corporate profit is an essential goal and the common good tends to suffer.
I’m more of a patriot than any of these assholes because I’d have spilled my guts months ago, money or not.
Sorry, this is the proverbial bridge too far for me.
Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
Even with the tapes some would still not believe him. Some are looking for the wrong person to blame. If the people around Trump knew about this they are much more complicit than Woodward.
CARL BERNSTEIN: “The last time this happened, during the end of Nixon’s presidency, the Republican leadership...went to the White House and told Nixon he had to resign. And the facts here are even graver than in Watergate.” pic.twitter.com/TfugDao1fb
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) September 9, 2020
Utter bullshit. People were dying, the numbers increasing exponentially and he waits until now then pats himself on the back for not waiting until after the election? Blood on his hands, and keep his fucking, self-righteous ass off television.
I get it. Woodward holding onto this information for six months and releasing bits and pieces six days prior to the book will garner a lot of sales, and an enormous amount of news
It’s going to hurt Trump mightily (maybe).
Knowing 200,000 corpses (with many more on the way) and 6,500,000 infections (with many more on the way) are the price we pay for this massive scoop…well, I’m glad I’m not Bob Woodward right now.
That’s what CEO’s are…Cheerleaders. That’s why you never want one as your President. They’re useless.
This is another illustration why I advocate when Democrats (hopefully not IF) regain power that they go scorched earth on the news industry, in a way that would practically shame Republicans.
They are parasitic symbiotes who deserve to be horse-whipped into ethics. There is no other way. Let them fucking cry about their access and perks. They step out of line and talk shit, freeze them out. Dem POTUS and his media relations people should make them fear every breath.
Totally
Woodward has for decades published sensitive/classified material/information that other writers have gone to prison for doing essentially the exact same thing. Woodward is just the socially acceptable leaker in DC. He’s a rank piece of shit for keeping Trump’s crime private. So now, we have over 180,000 dead Americans thanks to exactly the sort of indefensible shit that Woodward does. No one should buy that book, or any other work by Woodward.
Can we PLEASE stop referring to Woodward as “famed investigative reporter”??? Formerly famed I would accept. Where is the reporting? He sits down for multiple interviews and types up what was dictated. RIghtly or wrongly, one wonders how much of the actual Watergate legwork must have been done by Bernstein rather than by Woodward. After his fluff book on W any shred of credibility was given up, and this is what we get.
I guess he should be given credit for being able to butter up Trump and then issue something of a hit piece. BUT, since the whole book hasn’t been released, how much “explaining” does he end up doing to stroke Trump’s ego in the summation? For that matter, how much “In spite of all that…” is there after each “revelation.” I won’t be putting money in his pocket to find out.
I sort of agree, but I doubt that up til Dec 2019 that the Faucis and Birxes of the CDC had much direct contact with Trump. So them stepping out on Trump wasn’t going to happen. But I’m not sure who was left in the WH end of things, except for Azar at HHS that knew how Trump reacts to things. Remember a whole lot of people are coming and going, and I guess by now the only ones who know how to handle Trump have drunk deeply from kool-aid well.
But many would. Including some who might otherwise have been inclined to believe the idiot president. And playing these tapes in March side by side with what president traitor was saying? That would have put a hell of a lot more pressure on him, on state governments as well, to do something.
The interesting thing about catastrophes is that sometimes there’s more than one person who is culpable. And sometimes some are more culpable than others. President traitor is far, far more culpable than Woodward. But if Woodward still acts badly, should we let him off the hook because someone else did something worse?