Friday, October 06, 2006

Tracing "The Decline of Rumsfeld" ("From hero to zero in just three Woodward books"), Jacob Weisberg zeroes in on the real Bob Woodward

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I can't say that I've ever had much use for Jacob Weisberg [right], and it may just be that Bob Woodward is such an easy target that you don't have to be a genius to get him right, but Weisberg seems to me to get him exactly right in this excerpt from Slate passed on by washingtonpost.com's Dan Froomkin:

"Woodward never acknowledges changing his mind because he regards himself as a straightforward reporting machine, with no opinions of his own and no axes to grind. He can't say he's revising his judgments because he claims never to have made any. But, of course, Woodward does have a consistent worldview--the conventional wisdom of any given moment.

"When tout le Beltway viewed Rummy as a commanding hunk, Woodward embodied the adoration. Now that we all know Rummy is a vicious old bastard, Woodward channels the loathing just as fluidly. I'm not holding my breath, but if the war in Iraq takes a turn for the better, Stud Rummy could well return in Woodward's Buns of Brass: Bush at War IV.

"What's maddening is the way Woodward reverses his point of view without acknowledging he ever had one--then or now. You could charge him with flattering politicians only when they're up, and piling on when they're down. But you might as well accuse a weathervane of changing its mind about which way the wind should blow."

1 Comments:

At 9:25 AM, Blogger Timcanhear said...

Woodward is, like so many "trusted" persons in the spotlight and like so many of our American politicians, one to take advantage over the mess in Iraq and it's subsequent effects around the world while himself, profiting like a pimp on Hollywood Blvd.
Where was he when the oppostition to this war began even before it started?
I'm happy that so many finally see the light but Jesus man, these sons of bitches can not be trusted with the power of the pen OR their voices. They've proven to be opportunists and Woodward has taited his reputation as the man he is. A "blowing in the wind" insider profiting from the wreck of our nation.

 

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