here we go folks, prayers uppic.twitter.com/yZYb74LuqU
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Yes, friends, I will speed-read and review the Woodward book for @nplusonemag as soon as it drops.
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yeah you don't need to be a forensic philologist running a neural network decoding "lodestar" to credibly hypothesize that any of these ghouls wrote that worthless NYT Op-Edpic.twitter.com/KdIwF4Jiwi
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update: Bob Woodward has a weird, recurrent fixation with peoples' posture, and an almost erotic transference with Mattis. Also, Steve Bannon tells him that Donald Trump was in "great physical shape" which is one helluva of a data point.
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Steve Bannon, intellectual powerhouse, casually relating his own etymological prowess to Woodward, who relates it, trustinglypic.twitter.com/vLrPqqwsTa
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just squirming at the misogyny that makes this scene possible and underwrites all of itpic.twitter.com/eUBX9aUDgz
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speaking of which, I am *extremely* curious where this material is coming from, since the only people named in the scene are Trump and Kellyanne Conway herselfpic.twitter.com/EbFegU6saG
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first off: Folks. second off: Woodward's practice of paraphrase - where he omits quotes from material that's clearly in the sources own words - is super confusing and dubious.pic.twitter.com/EYccvMklId
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biggest thing so far: Steve Bannon's ability to dupe every single major chronicle of the Trump administration so far - Woodward included - is simply amazing
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yeah, it's clearly a case of "Bannon has to be a genius, because otherwise we media folks have all been idiots, and we would have to seriously reconsider our approach to the world." doesn't hurt that he's a media figure himself - and an eminently quotable one, too
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two things: (1) this scene is so stupid and tragic it's hilarious (2) thank *god* we didn't get a Pence/Condi Rice ticket, if they'd won, just imagine the body countpic.twitter.com/CpDaBsnGo5
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woodward's mattis worship seems related to the bannon-dupery (did you know mattis reads BOOKS?). also, this bit here, just, damn - we are fuuuuckedpic.twitter.com/GUKFmfpzG9
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yeah I'm not joking about woodward's erotic transference to mattispic.twitter.com/pefxt9ie33
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I'm a third of the way through, and I gotta say: it's pretty underwhelming
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wolfe's book at least had a kind of sleazy readability to it. here, woodward's prose - which is serviceable at best - combines with his trademark servility and a kind of shellshock that These People Are Not Serious to produce something that is just not very engaging or revelatory
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here's some actual newsworthy stuff: the CIA had multiple corroborating sources for the Russian hacking claims that Comey related to Trump in their first transition meetingpic.twitter.com/bPZ2pJHasG
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is there a General out there who Woodward *won't* describe as "ramrod-straight"? first mattis, now mccmaster too CC
@rogerbellinpic.twitter.com/lRYCvotj78
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again: this is a pretty mediocre book
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just pathetic - and presumably this is graham relating the story, toopic.twitter.com/ofHEmoD0vw
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