[SkyPilot]

Bob needs sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much attention.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much.

[bcoffey]

And the book is already selling at 50% off here.

[Mike Darancette]

Aside from letting his works be spun and sensationalized to promote book sales, Woodward seems to be a fairly honest broker with respects to President Bush.

[elbucko]

Stephanopoulos..."Woodward's calculated charm was custom tailored to my intellectual vanity,

"Intellectual vanity" is a good description of one of the qualities of the Left.

[Travis McGee]

Here is my prediction: at some point in the future, Woodward will be outed as Jayson Blair X Bob Kelly. A convincing liar who uses plenty of real sources to flesh out a piece, and then makes up the rest in a convincing manner. These are his Deep Throats, his comatose CIA directors on their death beds, his "unnamed sources." It might take 20 years, but in the end, he will be discredited as a liar and fabricator.

[an amused spectator]

Media Shenanigans/Media Schadenfreude/post-NewsMedia Conservative History ping - Bob Woodward Under The Microscope, II

Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard dissects Woodward: "Inevitably, as the week wore on, there came the sad detumescence, settling in around Excerpt Three or maybe Four, when we realized that the good parts had all been published and only the scraps and crumbs were left. Soon enough the book itself would be here, in piles in the window at Borders, limp as a windsock and giving off the stale odor of old news."

Ferguson again: "It would indeed be a wonderful thing, and Woodward himself would be a national treasure, if he could record the events that interest him with greater precision, and with an eye to their larger psychological or historical or political placement. But he can't. Instead his gift--solitary, as I say, but very large--is for getting people to tell him stuff. This is the reporter's essential talent, and no one has ever had it in such quantity or cultivated it so diligently."

All together a long and odd read, but one that's worth it. I've often felt that Woodward is a "can't see the forest for the trees" sort of fellow, much like Bill O'Reilly. In the body of the post, Freeper Travis McGee weighs in with some predictions.

Bob Woodward: Bibliography & News Mini-Biography (a compilation by aas)

On, Off, or grab it for a Media Shenanigans/Schadenfreude/PNMCH ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~anamusedspectator/

[Irene Adler]

Whenever I have seen Woodward on the tube, there has always been something about his manner of speaking that makes me think he is a TOTAl DOPE! To me, he sounds plain DUMB. I can't square my impression of him with how successful he has been, for years, at WaPo.