Comments on: Color me prescient — Woodward in the crosshairs

By: raymondjelli

raymondjelli — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:23:19 +0000

I actually hope that the people who think this will damage the administration are correct but I just don’t see that happening. It might make Obama a little less fashionable post-Presidency but I doubt that too.
Sorry for the confusion with my comments but if you can write like an Obamabot you can piece together what drives an Obamabot. I indulge that. I use to write all kinds Marxist stupidities on his campaign website the first time he ran and see if anyone actually cared. The only negative responses were that I didn’t think Obama would bring Communism immediately around through his election ( I modeled myself as a true hardcore Marxist) and that was oh so wrong.

By: Caped Crusader

Caped Crusader — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:38:52 +0000

None of this would be happening to Woodward —”If only the Fuhrer knew!” (Germany 1930′s)—YEAH, RIGHT!

By: SADIE

SADIE — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:35:26 +0000

“Woodward too old ….” but not Betty White. I am so confused – didn’t they both endorse Obama.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:42:41 +0000

Thank you for the clarification, raymondjelli.

My own viewpoint is that Woodward remains relevant, and it appears to me that he has a reasonably large number of people who trust him, and who continue to find him trustworthy and an important journalist.

I have a further comment about Woodward being pushed aside: I don’t think age or glamor or popularity matters here. Someone is always on top; and there’s always someone else out there, not on top (yet), highly ambitious and with a burning desire to shove em off the top dog spot and take their place.

Shoot, look at Adele. She’s arguably at the top in popular music, and she’s only 23. She displaced Lady Gaga. I never understood the Gaga appeal. I’ve sampled Adele’s music, and while I find it higher in quality than Lady Gaga, for the life of me I don’t understand why Adele is so huge. I think she’s good enough for reasonable popularity, but not THAT good. But she is on top right now. And someone is definitely angling, right now, to take her place.

By: raymondjelli

raymondjelli — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:02:47 +0000

I’m not attacking Bob Woodward. I’m simply saying this is how the press will view him. The Cult of Personality and Popularity that allows an Obama to be a media creation also means that reporters have become more loyal to their image and reader demographics than to their body of work.
All The President’s Men had a role in that. Now as an older man he doesn’t have any glamor and will be pushed aside by those who believe they have glamor and popularity and should be the story even if they themselves are the reporter. I don’t feel all that sorry for Bob Woodward even if he did good work. He allowed Deep Throat to be Hal Holbrooke and not the man Deep Throat actually was. When you allow reality to be distorted when you are a reporter be prepared to deal with a distorted reality.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:25:47 +0000

* crickets *

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:13:33 +0000

raymondjelli, welcome! don’t think i’ve seen you around here before…

Having welcomed you, now let me comment further. You said:
> Bob Woodward is the old man on the corporate board that doesn’t realize the company isn’t going to slow down while he picks up his prescriptions, goes to the physical therapist and gets his nap.

Can you explain why you think this comment of yours correctly describes Bob Woodward?

If the only thing you can come up with is that he’s 69, and therefore… old…

Yes, that would be Agism. I won’t say, shame on you, yet! You might have a perfectly valid reason for what you said. But you haven’t offered that valid reason yet.

Charles M, your link in #13 is a pure delight. I laughed out loud reading the list! David Plouffe has certainly opened one big can of worms for the Obama Acolytes to have to deal with.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:11:01 +0000

The power of the Left knows no bounds.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:55:14 +0000

PS to my comment above: This link at PJMedia certainly confirms my suspicion that the meme of Bob Woodward’s senility/obsolescence/irrelevance seems to be the sanctioned thug response to his latest work:

http://pjmedia.com/blog/wh-attacks-bob-woodward-with-ageism-are-these-dems-too-old-for-obama-too/

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:37:01 +0000

The topic here isn’t what’s going to happen to poor Bob Woodward, it’s whether a thug presidency can threaten the press with reprisals if it doesn’t toe the line. Given that Woodward is one of the few real journalists left in the mainstream media, it’s obvious that Obama intends not only to make sure that the lapdog American press remains compliant, but also to squash any notions among younger journalists that integrity or truth have much to do with success in their profession.