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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His ideal reader -- his intended reader, his most attentive reader -- is the day-to-day insider/access journalist. His books allow those reporters to compare notes, to cross-reference, to reset their obligations to sources.
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Without Woodward, we wouldn't know anything about this. Concentrate on the "this" instead of pursing your lips and wagging fingers. "Oh noes! The bad reporter used a PURPLE PEN to tell me about the genocide! Can you believe it! A PURPLE PEN! I can't stand it! PURPLE!"
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If Woodward has released trumps comments in March 2020, they would have been met with the same inertia + hand wringing defences as today. Woodward is not the problem. The American political system has been proven incapable of dealing with a rogue, incompetent, lawless president.
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if it saved even one life, that would have been enough.
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It’s astonishing that you write on Woodward like you’re not doing the exact same thing regurgitating the same “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk” argument because you’ve decided that getting Trump re-elected is in your own career interests.
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I take it you would rather not have the tapes, report and interpretation at all. Be grateful -30-
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Trump used Woodward to give himself yet another out or plausible excuse for governing so poorly. That is so ironic, given Woodward's reputation as an investigative journalist. Fact that he calls himself an historian now is irrelevant. It was Trump!, for crying out loud.
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“gossip-mongering helps defuse scandals” This is the evil genius of the reality TV context, not just in his personal background but in US culture generally: everything is just so much gossip, all gravitas is trivialized. “Who can say?” There is no objective reference point.
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