1. Make no mistake: the taped comments Trump made to Woodward in February & March are very damaging to Trump. But as so often in Trump era, elite norms have given Trump an out: it's fair to ask why, given import of Trump's words, Woodward was silent for months. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1304042651147284480 …
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5. In a brilliant 1996 dissection of Woodward, Joan Didion noted, “Mr. Woodward’s rather eerie aversion to engaging the ramifications of what people say to him" and the “disinclination of Mr. Woodward’s to exert cognitive energy on what he is told.”
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6. Some more thoughts on how Woodward uncovered a new scandal but himself became part of the scandal.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/woodward-scoop-trump-coronavirus/ …
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Hey Sima got castrated for speaking out don't put him in that crowd.
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Barron is the Claudius of the modern age
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I think you mean Clarendon, unless you think Claremont was just recounting court gossip about Professor X.
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Argue yes Clarendon. But now that you mention it, Claremont was also a court chronicler!
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Long ago, I reached the conclusion that if Bob Woodward had been working alone, he'd have only written a book or two about Nixon after the fact. Carl Bernstein seemed to be the one who understood the actual duties of being a journalist.
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funny because "long on intrigue, short on analysis" describes jeet pretty well
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