Carl Bernstein’s 30-Year War

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | July 17, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh

[al baby]

Berstien is in more dire need of a blow job than any white man alive

[gov_bean_ counter]

Woodward always was the smarter one

Which isn't saying much...

[IWontSubmit]

Bernstein's own and very personal Watergate:
... But what the media had brought together, the media last week were rapidly putting asunder. Just before Christmas Nora, 38, stormed out of their Washington condominium and resettled in a New York apartment with their two babies, Jacob, 17 months, and Max, 7 weeks. (A preemie, Max was released from New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital just two weeks ago.)

“Carl’s a rat,” Nora confided to a friend and called New York Daily News syndicated columnist Liz Smith to confirm the split. “Writing this scoop makes me feel sick,” lamented Liz, who adds that two weeks earlier she had called Nora about the stability of her marriage and rumors of Carl’s resumed swinging....
http://people.com/archive/can-carl-bernstein-handle-deep-troth-nora-ephron-leaves-him-over-an-ex-p-m-s-daughter-vol-13-no-2/

Then this timeless Nora quote: He'd have sex with a Venetian blind...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2165776/Nora-Ephron-quotes-Hed-sex-Venetian-blind-.html#ixzz4n6qK7o9G

Polarize it, personalize it.

[Fractal Trader]

1998?

Would that be the year that Rush started on the radio?

[DoodleBob]

So, what does Carl's famous colleague have to say about the current state of play?

Famed investigative journalist Bob Woodward criticized the media’s open bias toward President Trump on Tuesday in remarks following a screening of “All The President’s Men” in Washington, D.C."

I don't always agree with Woodward, but lately he's been as correct as Alan Dershowitz.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Rush started his national show in 1988.

[M-cubed]

“Mr. Trump says: ‘I haven’t had great coverage out there lately, Theresa.’ She replies awkwardly: ‘Well, you know what the British press are like.’ He replies: ‘I still want to come, but I’m in no rush. ‘So, if you can fix it for me, it would make things a lot easier. ‘When I know I’m going to get a better reception, I’ll come and not before.’ <<

TRANSLATION:.....When you need us (the US) more then we need you (the UK)....Call me!...

until then...You're in charge of YOUR Country...I'm in charge of MINE.....I'm not here to get “re-elected”...I'm here to save my country......are YOU?......

give me a call when you've made a stand and its convenient for ya....Maybe we can make a "deal".....

[Flick Lives]

Bernstein looks like an extra for the original “Planet of the Apes”. Cornelius, is that you?

[Rebelrage]

Few things are more hyped than Watergate. It was a third rate burglary. Bernstein has been banging the same drum for 40 years. He happened to get lucky and be contacted by a leaker. He did nothing. CNN and Bernstein are made for each other.

[donna]

Since when do we use such filthy language on FR?

Please stop with that kind of talk. Thank you.

[al baby]

It’s a wonderful quote from Good Morning Vietnam and it is very apropos in this discussion of that loser I am sure you have already dropped dime on me so have a wonderful evening

[al baby]

88

His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento, California radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls. In 1988, Limbaugh began broadcasting his show nationally from radio station WABC in New York City, and the show’s flagship station became WOR in 2014.

In the 1990s, Limbaugh’s books The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) and See, I Told You So (1993) made The New York Times Best Seller list. In his books and on his show, Limbaugh frequently criticizes what he regards as liberal policies and politicians, as well as what he perceives as a pervasive liberal bias in major U.S. media. Limbaugh is among the highest paid people in U.S. media, signing a contract in 2008 for $400 million through 2016.[5] In 2015, Forbes listed his earnings at $79 million for the previous 12 months, and ranked him the 11th highest earning celebrity in the world.[6] His most recent contract, signed on July 31, 2016, will take his radio program to 2020, its 32nd year.

[donna]

I didn’t “drop a dime”.

[Kid Shelleen]

>> Bernstein has been banging the same drum for 40 years. He happened to get lucky and be contacted by a leaker <<

He is a loser like Al Bundy.

[neverevergiveup]

“RUSH: Translation: We’ve lost our monopoly!”

This is one reason why Rush has been so successful. He has a great ability to distill it all down into a simple truth, encompassed in a simple phrase. This is exactly correct. They've lost their monopoly, and they sensed this during the election cycle when everything they tried to derail Trump didn't work. Worse, for them, he took the fight directly to them and ridiculed them. These are a bunch of marginally talented, but amazingly egotistical people who in all reality could be replaced in a heartbeat by most undergraduate journalism or English students after their freshman year. Truthfully, that's actually the level of difficulty what they do requires - but they have deluded themselves and a significant amount of the public that they are somehow the equivalent of the most advanced particle physicists.

Having said that, being a true, honest, dig-deep investigative reporter who uncovers the truth, and reports it without embellishment or agenda, is a difficult and very important job. I have great respect for people who do these things, and feel that they deserve our gratitude and accolades. Unfortunately, I doubt that many of us can name even one such reporter.

[Paal Gulli]

Bernstein is a fraud. Always has been. Along with Woodward, their careers were built almost entirely on a myth known as “Deep Throat.” There was never any Deep Throat, it was just a literary device W&B used to lend authenticity to any rumors they needed to use to bash RMN but couldn’t substantiate. More stalking horse than anonymous informant. And they devised a quite convenient plan only to “reveal” who Deep Throat was after the alleged DT had died. Which supposedly was at DT’s request, but which (coincidentally?) also served to deny the alleged DT any opportunity to deny the allegation.

So today he’s a liberal darling because he lied about conservatives and didn’t get caught. Because the façade of Deep Throat held up.

Quite a CV for a “news” man.

[ransomnote]

Interesting theory. Don’t know if it’s true but seems like Dan Rather thought it was true and decided to try it himself. (e.g., “fake but accurate”, Rathergate)

[basalt]

woodward and bernstein had zero to do with “breaking” the water gate case. They wrote a few stories about fringe players to the story..i.e. donald segretti etc”....but one of the burglars, James McCord was the one who blew the story wide open..all a big media created myth..just like the so called “camelot kennedy” myth...

[basalt]

as a matter if fact. their biggest stories were printed BEFORE the 72 election...and the effect of those was the biggest landslide win ever, until 1984...