Posted on 09/07/2018 1:33:38 PM PDT by Kaslin
"It's very depressing. You want to read a depressing book, this is it," said one critic of a book by Bob Woodward. "It's a sad, horrible story with all the sordid details that I guess people will just, you know, slaver over, but the fact of the matter is, it's humorless and there's no warmth."
In his criticism of Woodward's book Wired about his friend John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd captured the essence of the Woodward writing style: lots of little trees competing for air in a gloomy forest, often at the expense of the larger picture. One can expect the same from Woodward's' new opus about the Trump White House, Fear. Trump in the White House.
In his two books about the Clinton White House, Woodward again did a thorough job documenting the trees, but in the second of these two books, The Choice: How Clinton Won, Woodward missed a Watergate-sized forest. To his humble credit, he later almost admitted as much.
Woodward was no Clinton fanboy. In the first of the two books, The Agenda, Woodward detailed the chaotic run-up to the budget battle in Bill Clinton's first term. In fact, he used the word "chaos" repeatedly, even excessively.
The process "bordered on chaos." Clinton's schedule "was again chaos." Clinton pushed debate "to the point of chaos." The administration's first week "had been chaos." The meeting dissolved "into virtual chaos."
In the second of these two books, this one about the 1996 election, Woodward saw a White House teetering – you guessed it – "on the edge of management chaos." He was not the only one to spot the disarray. In his memoirs, aide George Stephanopoulos called the atmosphere of the White House "dysfunctional." And in his memoir, labor secretary Robert Reich lamented a "chronically undisciplined president."
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I never understood why ANYONE would read ANYTHING written by this trash merchant.
Woodward proves how anyone can succeed in our great country.
By writing fiction and selling it as truth.
It's interesting that Woodward uses the same words and phrases to describe the Clinton and Trump White Houses. As an individual who has never had to manage anything more complex than picking up his cleaning, I suppose that looking at any organization must appear to him to be chaotic. This reinforces my notion that relying on reporters to tell us what they have observed is silly. That was certainly my experience seeing reporters in combat, they were clueless. It seems that Woodward is equally clueless about politics and government even after 50 years of experience.
Those are same individuals who are/were enthusiastic about facebook: gossipers like to feed on gossip.
But once I saw the "journalists" up close and personal, I changed my major for something which was actually marketable.
This is what I observed:
heh heh
I actually got a degree from a prestigious journalism school. Never met more vacuous people! Tried to help some of those ambitious types. They were shocked that I used dictionaries, thesaurus, and grammars. Aspiring tv personalities were caricatures.
My friends from those days were aero engineers and business admin majors. I ended up in engineering and statistics.
Amazing how this half-wit, along with his equally dim-witted sidekick Carl Bernstein, in their “glory days”, supposedly “took down Richard Nixon”, yet failed to uncover evidence of the “Russian collusion” that we’ve heard so much about....how does THAT work??
He didn’t miss it, they’re Democrats so he gave them a pass.
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