Posted on 03/02/2025 6:16:12 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Legendary Hollywood actor Bill Murray trashed Bob Woodward during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, challenging the author’s work after delving into just a few pages of Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi, Woodward’s 1984 tome chronicling the life of John Belushi.
Murray was clearly underwhelmed by Woodward’s attempt to capture the character of his friend and fellow actor Belushi, claiming Woodward’s lackadaisical relationship with the facts could easily have been transposed into his work as a Washington Post reporter in the early 1907s that helped topple U.S. President Richard Nixon via the Watergate scandal..
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And Murray is just noticing this NOW?
Woodward was a former naval intelligence office who reported to Alexander Haig. Haig was Deep Throat, or the principal informant Woodward identified by that name. It wasn’t the senile FBI guy later admitted to be the source, although he could have been leaking as well. My conclusion was that Nixon was forced from office to open the path to George H.W. Bush to ascend in the Republican Party. Woodward was part of that, and continued to carry water for the Bushes throughout his career.
1907’s? I think they meant the early 70’s.
“senile FBI guy” = Mark Felt.
“My conclusion was that Nixon was forced from office”
Many hold he same conclusion.
Ted Kopel did an excellent job of exposing Woodward’s lies on his book about Bill Casey. Show us how the hospital room was set up? I can’t , that is confidential!
Does it really matter when a comedian noticed that?
“Legendary hollywood actor” that’s pushing the standard lower.
Maybe just talking about on a widely heard podcast now.
I guess it is just additional proof of how ignorant the Hollywood types are regarding the truth. If not, maybe it is why they are allowed to make it in Hollywood if only willing to lie and deceive the populace.
Woodward and CIA go way back!!
“...They Framed Nixon...”
Who didn’t know that?
The funny thing is that Woodward pretended to be a Republican. Apparently some of his fans believed it.
If Woodward was bad, Bernstein was worse. His infidelity ruined his marriage to Nora Ephran and after that alcohol ruined his reputation. At one point he stole a horse and buggy from in front of the Plaza and raced it through Central Park. That peccadillo seems to have been completely scrubbed from the internet.
If I could be in charge, people would be BEGGING to have Trump back. All of these lies and garbage by primarily the Democrat Party have SEVERELY affected my life. Many, many trials for treason and execution.
Didn’t Woodward come out with a very negative book or report on bush?
Watergate was the “first” time (we know of) that the corrupt FBI attempted to overthrow a popular and elected President.
Mark Felt? Was deputy director of the FBI.
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
My favorite example of that was a guy who used to write for the New York Times, fifteen or twenty years ago. Maybe longer. Can't remember his name.
He wrote stories which were some variation on this: "US Prisons Overcrowded While Crime Rates Fall."
The story that followed this headline would focus on the idea that the criminal justice system was a joke, that prisons were run for profit by the "prison industrial complex" and were full of innocent people, etc.
The NYT would run a version of that story every year.
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