Woodward is great and I was glad to see and hear him. Maybe I am more informed and educated than some others leaving comments on this site. I have a high regard for his investigation of legitimate facts and the way he articulates what he verified, both in person and as an author. Thank you Bob.
Unfortunately, sites like Fox, Breitbart and Infowars have replaced dedicated, dogged, old-school reporters like Woodward with their nonstop bleating of "fake news" regarding mainstream media (a term I hate; well-researched reporting that gives analysis based on facts is called "news", no disclaimer needed). When millions believe Trump's bunk and have not just a simple distrust but visceral hatred against respected media I fear for the country.
what a sweet sweet guy, he made a discussion out of it, where he questions and actually listening to the young, however accomplished, fellow; or maybe he really can listen, which explains his work so much,
Sandra McShane You have no idea who I am or what my background is. I'm not a "sheeple." I read numerous publications, evaluate news sources, make informed decisions and do not trust just anyone.
Richard Nixon was a brilliant, if very paranoid and devious, man. Donald Trump is reportedly a moron, an idiot with the intellect of a 6th grader, per people who worked intimately with him. Both are vindictive, but one was brilliant and the other is a simpleton. If the latter had not been born rich, he would be collecting social security right now for his long career cleaning public toilets for the Park Service and throwing rocks at squirrels (who were constantly conspiring against him.....).
He doesn't want to be a legend. He just said don't get pompous. He's an excellent reporter doing his job. Not many seem to do their job very well any more.
Basic neuroscience provides a window into understanding memories. Normal (non-traumatic) memories are made in the hippocampus. They are easily forgotten. On the other hand, traumatic memories are made in the amygdala. They are vivid. They are seared into the mind. They are timeless. They are accurate. We know them as flashbacks. Traumatic memories return as any of our 5 senses. Dr. Ford's testimony include both types of memories or lack of memories. She did not recall who's home, the exact date, etc. These are normal memories. The attact was traumatic and thus the memories are vivid. Most women have experienced similar experiences and that is why we know she is telling the truth. Her testimony triggered our own traumatic memories of attacks by similar types of young, drunk, entitled men......
these are symptoms of a Nation that is about to lose it's collective reasoning .the orange attack of trauma resembles total disregard for culture or regard of race color or creed. this monster means to shut us down.
TY for P&P, I like the conversation going into reporting then and now. NYT vs WP. The personalities of both men made this an excellent introspection into reporters and their job. Mr. T rump would do well to watch these type videos and understand one and two of the most important things of being an American: free speech and truth in the pursuit of the free press!
Jeff -- They would ALL still vote for Dumbo Donald. Have yo not figured it out yet? They, like their idiot Russia-puppet money-laundering, rapist president, are FUCKING MORONS.
I have this book, Fear, on my coffee table. It turned up a couple of days ago in my mailbox. I'm about to turn some pages shortly. Like sex, it has a degree of anticipation attached to it.
Remember Woodward's words: log the place, the time, the date and the people present. if possible take a picture. Then report the incident, and write about it. This is one reason that the anonymous writer has not been respcted or appreciated.
Ryan: IF you're able to see people in person is awesome, I've had the privilege to see Robert Kennedy and Daniel Ellsberg. These are special places in my memory.
"Tariffs make no sense, they hurt consumers". No job or a low wage, does it hurt a consumer? The trade agreements were signed not to help consumers but to facilitate outsourcing. In that way, corporations were set free to manufacture somewhere else and introduce their products to the American market. You think it is possible that no economist will give an opinion against "free trade" for fear of being ostracized?
The more one agonizes over Trump and his foibles and to try to bring rational argument to the situation the more one realizes the futility of it all. Best to just sit in a darkened room and wait for it all to end, otherwise we are just confused retriever dogs chasing after disappearing sticks thrown by a blind madman.Let's just admit that millions of voters made a dreadful mistake and wait for the inevitable denouement.
I don't know that resigning oneself to the "futility of it all" is the best way to go. Throughout history, revolutions that changed the statues quo, were not fought on that particular premise.
Great post dashercronin. I think the American people are so angry that they're going vote most of the extreme right wing republicans out of office for sure! It's going to take the women to do it, too. Strength in numbers.
I read the book. To sum it up ...we don't like Trump. We are disgusted by his language, his demeanor, his no class reality TV personality, and they way he runs his White House. To Bob it's chaos and it will never dawn on him that Trump is simply different than the stereotypical politicians Bob understands and loves. Bob is so blown away by how different Trump is he defines this difference as Trump is unstable. It's the only sad way Bob can make sense of the world around him. Don't waste your money.
The NYT reporter-interviewer could not give *one* example of when a story was killed for lack of evidence, just one example of how hard it was to gather evidence for a story they *did* print, please note. Woodward is a professional; the interviewer is just a left crusader posing as an impartial, unemotional journalist. Listen closely to the whole thing and how things are said, not just what.
LOL! I caught that too; I had to think for a moment. I assumed he meant Qatar. For me, this belongs in the same category as "eye-rac(Iraq)" and "eye-ran(Iran)". Kind of makes me grind my teeth.
I could care less about the "testimony " of judge what's his face. Boy are Americans focused on all the most unimportant things about life. Politics is for the ignorant.
Manafort’s flight data sheds no light however on his relationship, if any, to the Euromaidan revolution. Euromaidan was triggered by events in Kyiv on the night of November 29, when police violently dispersed a small demonstration of pro-EU students who were protesting after Yanukovych refused to sign the Association Agreement. The violence prompted a huge demonstration occupying the heart of Kyiv on December 1. All we have are cryptic messages exchanged between Manafort’s daughters, one of whose phones was hacked in 2016. Manafort confirmed the hack and corroborated some of the messages to Politico. According to messages between the sisters discussing Manafort’s actions in Ukraine, it was Manafort’s idea “to send those people out and get them slaughtered. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that Revolts [sic] and what not […] As a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine.” Manafort’s daughter called her father’s money “blood money.” The remarks were made by those privy to the deepest secrets of Manafort’s personal life. They evoke the suspicion that Manafort manipulated the Maidan protests and the police violence to influence international opinion. The appearance of the Manafort messages in 2016 reignited speculation in Ukraine that none other than Lovochkin instigated the attack on the students’ demonstration on November 29, 2013, to trigger outrage against Yanukovych. Some of the timeline fits this interpretation: On the day before the police attack, reporters noted Yulia Lovochkina openly fraternising with the students on the Maidan. Lovochkin’s TV crews covered the 4am events closely, and Lovochkin immediately tendered his resignation in protest at the police violence. The next day, Lovochkin’s TV channel played footage of the worst of the police violence on heavy rotation on prime time news. News anchors intoned that Yanukovych had “shed the blood of Ukrainian children.” Whereas the student protests had attracted hundreds, protests on Sunday December 1 against the police violence attracted hundreds of thousands. This was the start of Euromaidan. Authoritative chronicler of the Euromaidan revolution Sonya Koshkina, as well as Ukrainian prosecutors, have argued it was anti-EU hardliners who were responsible for attacking the students. But on the third anniversary of events, November 29, 2016, Ukraine’s interior minister Arsen Avakov told the BBC that “Lovochkin was the author of the dispersal of the [students’] Maidan, and should be in prison, not in parliament.” Lovochkin denies any role in the attack on the students. “I submitted my resignation because of President Yanukovych’s decision to decline signing the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) […] and the use of force against peaceful protesters in Kyiv following it,” he said. What was Lovochkin’s motivation to break with Yanukovych so abruptly over Europe, whether or not he was involved in the violence? According to Koshkina, Lovochkin was “a placeman of Firtash and one of the architects of the regime,” hardly a nationalist or freedom-loving liberal. But in June 2013 the US had indicted Firtash for alleged bribery in India. On October 30 2013 - as Yanukovych was wavering over the Association Agreement with the EU - the US issued an arrest warrant for Firtash. The US withdrew the arrest warrant four days later - after US deputy secretary of state Victoria Nuland met Yanukovych in Kyiv, and received assurances that Yanukovych would sign the Association Agreement,Firtash said during extradition hearings in Vienna in 2015 that first revealed the details of the case. But come the Vilnius Summit, Yanukovych failed to sign. The arrest warrant was reissued in March 2014, and Firtash was arrested in Vienna on March 12, 2014. . . . .
