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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: dp0622

It’s funny how the same posters who, I imagine, wouldn’t hear a word against Mitt Romney in ‘12 will similarly defend this GOP candidate regardless of his missteps.


61 posted on 06/15/2016 3:44:43 PM PDT by NelsonEddyFan
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To: Williams
I don't remember any acting president going after a network the way Obama went after Fox News? Didn't he try to label James Rosen and had the Justice Dept. monitor his phone calls? What about taking Sheryl Attkinson’s computer?

These guys can point the finger at Trump all they want, it just makes them hypocrites.

62 posted on 06/15/2016 3:51:46 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: nickcarraway

Ummmm....yes!


63 posted on 06/15/2016 3:52:29 PM PDT by NelsonEddyFan
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To: marstegreg

You are correct but Trump needs to hone and articulate these counter attacks better.


64 posted on 06/15/2016 3:53:34 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God please save us from the democrats. And the republicans.)
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To: Bryanw92
He really couldn’t ban a newspaper.

How many republican/Conservatives are seated in the White House Press corp? Hint, none.

65 posted on 06/15/2016 4:01:28 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC-Hillary kills USA-Pick one.)
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To: Williams

I can’t believe the Trump Campaign hasn’t pointed out how Obama went after all the press he didn’t like. Maybe someone should remind people how Obama treated press he didn’t like. It’s hard to argue facts.


66 posted on 06/15/2016 4:03:21 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: faithhopecharity
Watergate was a true story

Almost as bad as taking a few hundred million from the oil rich Muslim countries for making a speech.

Nixon really did leave office broke unlike the Clintons.

67 posted on 06/15/2016 4:04:52 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC-Hillary kills USA-Pick one.)
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To: detective
Bob Woodward is a phoney journalist given to gross misrepresentation of facts. I'm old enough to remember Watergate as it unfolded. When does Bob Woodward ever talk about Daniel Elsberg, the traitor who sold military secrets to the media for political gain, and was trying to implicate Nixon? Elsberg was a traitor to the nation as much as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg!

Anybody who thinks Woodward is a real journalist is smoking something they should share with the entire group. PC to the max, Woodward is loved in Washington, D.C. because he brought down a Republican President.

Oh, has anybody spoken to "deep throat" lately?

68 posted on 06/15/2016 4:09:16 PM PDT by The Citizen Soldier ("It's always good to be underestimated." ~Donald Trump)
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To: itsahoot

if you see craigslist ads for “genuine White House furniture” you will know that the number you’ll be calling is Hillarity’s private blackberry


69 posted on 06/15/2016 4:12:28 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: detective
Hey Woodward, what classes did Obama take during his days in college? What were his grades? Chirping Crickets.
70 posted on 06/15/2016 4:14:55 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: detective

“Bob Woodward: Even Nixon didn’t ban Post during Watergate”

...and where did that get Nixon. Besides being effectively removed from office, he was also looked at, by the left, as being one executive order away from declaring martial law and becoming an instant dictator. So again, was the left saying: “Oh, no, don’t worry, Nixon hasn’t banned the media, he won’t be a dictator” Nope, JUST THE OPPOSITE, they were not about to give him the benefit of the doubt, no friggen way.

So, same here, no downside for what Trump’s doing, none at all.


71 posted on 06/15/2016 4:16:00 PM PDT by BobL
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To: detective

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>> “The Washington Post is dishonest. They are Clinton stooges and will tell any lie to see that Clinton wins.” <<

An obvious fact.


72 posted on 06/15/2016 4:28:45 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: onyx

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>> “Y’all aren’t ever going to have Trump to kick around!” <<

Are you sure that is the line to invoke here?

Do you believe Trump will walk away a loser as Nixon did when he uttered those words?


73 posted on 06/15/2016 4:28:45 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Regulator

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We know what Woodward is.

Disregard him.


74 posted on 06/15/2016 4:28:45 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: detective

The game has changed considerably since your day, Bob.


75 posted on 06/15/2016 4:29:17 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: detective

Bob’s stuck in 1974.


76 posted on 06/15/2016 5:20:54 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: faithhopecharity

The Watergate break-in was a John Dean operation from the very start to get the DNC’s Black Book of Hookers that included the name of his future wife.

Woodward/Bernstein’s version never reported that fact.

The goal of the leftists was to get Nixon - a strong anti-Communist - at any cost.

That said, Nixon made the mistake of trying to protect his lieutenants.

As an aside, Bernstein was/is a radical leftwing communist whose parents were also radical leftwing communists. I’ve had personal interaction (in my business on phone and in person) with Bernstein. A nasty, vile man.


77 posted on 06/15/2016 5:27:07 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: newfreep

Many years ago I read the book “Silent Coup: The Removal of a President”, eye opening book and mind boggling. So many facts that were never revealed or reported on at the time.

Now we have poor Bob Woodward claiming that Nixon did not rescind credentials, maybe he should have. There is no doubt that reporters and/or organizations have had their credentials pulled at one time or another. Now I was lead to believe it was only one reporter they kicked out, but even if it was all of the Post reporters, fine then.


78 posted on 06/15/2016 5:31:49 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: itsahoot

Nixon was not truly broke, he had some bonds and a lot of real estate. He did write a lot of books to make money. Never took a dime for any speech he gave, just travel expenses, he gave up SS protection and paid for his own. He had one security guy that traveled with him.

His single biggest expense was Legal Fees that were ongoing most of the rest of his life.


79 posted on 06/15/2016 5:34:57 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: newfreep
"The Watergate break-in was a John Dean operation from the very start to get the DNC’s Black Book of Hookers that included the name of his future wife."

+1

Silent Coup: The Removal of a President

80 posted on 06/15/2016 5:37:03 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam vs the Free World in a death match)
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