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Bob Woodward: Even Nixon didn't ban Post during Watergate
MSN News ^ | June 15, 2016 | Mark Hensch

Posted on 06/15/2016 2:20:22 PM PDT by detective

Legendary reporter Bob Woodward says Donald Trump is taking a harsher stance against The Washington Post than even President Nixon did during the Watergate scandal.

"The Nixon White House did not formally pull press credentials of the Post" when the newspaper was reporting on the scandal that eventually forced Nixon to resign, Woodward said Tuesday, according to NBC News.

He added that Nixon did exclude the Post from covering social events at the White House, though.

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on Monday said he was revoking The Washington Post's press credentials over the newspaper's "dishonest reporting."

"Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record-setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post," he wrote in a Facebook post.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: shutupbob; trump; washingtonpost; wp
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To: detective

Boo-hoo-hoo! But Obama banned the Washington Times!


41 posted on 06/15/2016 2:51:58 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: detective

Back in the day the Washington Post was not owned by Jeff Bezos who seems to be using it for his own political agenda.


42 posted on 06/15/2016 2:52:43 PM PDT by beekay
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To: Bryanw92

Agreed. We already have a traitor president 20 times over.

Should have been impeached long ago


43 posted on 06/15/2016 2:56:57 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: detective

The difference is that Watergate was factual, and the stories were for the most part true. The ComPost treatment of Trump is much different.


44 posted on 06/15/2016 3:01:05 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: detective

I’d like to think that the WaPo had more integrity back then.


45 posted on 06/15/2016 3:04:52 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: detective

he should have


46 posted on 06/15/2016 3:05:15 PM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: dp0622

thin skin means you better not F wi’im.


47 posted on 06/15/2016 3:09:12 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: detective
Bob Woodpecker breath championed a marxist muslim take over of the United States of America.

Translation:

Don't hold me accountable for treason....look here at Nixion and Trump

48 posted on 06/15/2016 3:10:19 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (DEPORT OBOLA VOTERS)
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To: ichabod1

I like that twist :)

another good point was he’s NOT president now, so he has every right to do that.

Like ALL the dems who refuse to even show up on FOX news.

not that i’ve watched it for a year. Might start again. I dont know. Was getting kind of loud.


49 posted on 06/15/2016 3:11:23 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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They weren’t making up lies about him. Truth was bad enough. By today’s standard it was peanuts.


50 posted on 06/15/2016 3:11:50 PM PDT by Jenny217
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To: detective

But did the Post attack Nixon and deliberately print lies about him for a year? If it did, Nixon would have been justified in barring them.


51 posted on 06/15/2016 3:13:26 PM PDT by jch10 (Obama, now out of excuses.)
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To: detective

Never liked Woodward or the other guy.


52 posted on 06/15/2016 3:13:55 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: detective
Maybe because Nixon was guilty of something and the WP wasn't recklessly lying about him, ya fool.
53 posted on 06/15/2016 3:15:42 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: detective

Remember when Obama Administration said this about Fox News?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2009/1012/obama-vs-fox-news-now-the-gloves-are-off

“As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave,” Anita Dunn told The New York Times.


54 posted on 06/15/2016 3:24:30 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: detective

How about that time when Ed Henry walked out of a press briefing by Jay Carney because he refused to call on any TV reporters?

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-ed-henry-walks-out-of-white-house-briefing-after-jay-carney-ignores-him-twice/

Or this:

“It looks like Fox won the first major skirmish after being denied entrance to a White House press pool event.”

https://grandrants.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/fox-news-vs-white-house-fox-1-wh-0/


55 posted on 06/15/2016 3:36:02 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: detective

Trump isn’t Nixon.


56 posted on 06/15/2016 3:36:05 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God please save us from the democrats. And the republicans.)
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To: detective

But Nixon, as President, DID refuse to hold press conferences for months and months on end.


57 posted on 06/15/2016 3:37:29 PM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: marstegreg

If I recall my presidential history, reporters have often been kept off the candidate’s or president’s plane, etc. Not really uncommon.


58 posted on 06/15/2016 3:37:41 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God please save us from the democrats. And the republicans.)
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To: detective

And Nixon lost


59 posted on 06/15/2016 3:37:44 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: r_barton

Nixon was missing 8 minutes of tape, likely a human error.

Hillary destroyed 30 thousand Top secret emails, and left the rest exposed to espionage and lied about it.

Where is your outrage Bob?

When you assign 25 reporters to dig up meaningless dirt on Trump more than 25 years old that has no relevance but not one reporter to investigate the Clinton foundation, the wall street speeches, the Clinton charities, the deals with foreign countries including selling USA uranium to the Russians. Clinton taking payoffs from foreign governments in exchange for policy at State Dept.

You guys don’t deserve press credentials your in the Clintons pocket, not fair reporters, your part of her campaign.

How much are the Clinton’s paying the Wash. Post?


60 posted on 06/15/2016 3:39:46 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (Y)
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