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Bob Woodward still marvels at Gore's "statesmanlike" speech, repeats "Supremes made Bush president"
Media Research Center cyberalert ^ | November 7, 2001 | Brent Baker

Posted on 11/07/2001 5:19:26 PM PST by Mr. Mulliner

On the one year anniversary of the 2000 election, ABC’s Good Morning America let Bob Woodward marvel at the most "extraordinary event in all of this," Al Gore's "statesmanlike" concession speech: "Not only did the Supreme Court make Bush President, Al Gore did." Charles Gibson expressed surprise that the Supreme Court "does not seem to have suffered anything in loss of prestige and the country accepted it, moved on."

A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released on Monday found that registered voters would now vote for George W. Bush over Al Gore by an almost a 2-to-1 margin, 61 to 35 percent, but instead of focusing on that affirmation of Bush’s presidency, or even mentioning it, on the one year anniversary of the election day ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday allowed Bob Woodward to marvel at the most "extraordinary event in all of this," Al Gore's "concession speech." Woodward asserted: "In a sense, not only did the Supreme Court make Bush President, Al Gore did."

     GMA’s Charles Gibson expressed surprise that given how five Supreme Court justices had made Bush the President, the Court "does not seem to have suffered anything in loss of prestige and the country accepted it."

     GMA began its anniversary retrospective, caught in the 7am half hour by MRC analyst Jessica Anderson, with a review from Terry Moran of events a year earlier. He concluded his report: "The bottom line, Charlie, thanks to five members of the U.S. Supreme Court, George W. Bush is President of the United States and as we speak, he's addressing world leaders via satellite in Warsaw."

     Gibson then set up his November 6 interview with Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward: "Yes, Terry Moran, thank you very much. Five Justices of the Supreme Court with him, four against him, and on that narrow margin he won the election."

     Gibson’s first question: "It is extraordinary when you think back that that was a year ago that we began all that. It seems not that long ago, but it's amazing how quickly the country moved on from that."
     Woodward immediately praised Gore: "Well, it is and if you go back and look at the TV and press reporting, the extraordinary event in all of this was Gore's concession speech, when Gore actually got up and said, 'Not only do I concede, but I accept the finality of it,' meaning that he was going to accept cold the Supreme Court decision against him. If you read that speech or looked at a video of it, you would say you couldn't write a better speech totally giving away the presidency to Bush and saying that it's over."
     Gibson followed up by wondering how the Supreme Court came through unscathed: "He did that, but there were howls of protest from many people, books written, you know about them, saying that this was a political decision by the Supreme Court, not a legal decision, and yet the Supreme Court does not seem to have suffered anything in loss of prestige and the country accepted it, moved on."
     Woodward credited Gore with protecting the Court from itself: "Well, among some academics and critics, the Supreme Court has been damaged, but people accepted it because Gore accepted it. In, again, that speech, he got up there and mocked himself and said, 'It's time for me to go.' In a sense, it's almost prescient what he said about anyone who looks at this election dispute to suggest that there is weakness is American democracy does not understand this country; totally put himself behind Bush. In a sense, not only did the Supreme Court make Bush President, Al Gore did."

     A bit later, after Gibson pointed out how interest in electoral reform has waned in Florida, Woodward again returned to his theme: "Does that mean the right result was reached or that somebody's not going to recount all of those votes and come to a different conclusion? No, but again, I don't mean to be overly repetitive, but it was the Gore speech and concession which was so graceful and statesmanlike, no one had anything to hang their hat on. Now if Gore had taken the opposite tack and said, 'Oh no, we're going to fight this or we're going to do something,' then you would have had a different attitude in the country."

     Gibson wrapped up by wondering how different the war on terrorism would be if Gore were President, prompting Woodward to acknowledge the U.S. then would not have veterans of the Persian Gulf War directing it, such as Cheney and Rumsfeld.



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To: Singapore_Yank
Charlie and Bob, may Scumbag not do to your wives what he did to Juanita Broaddrick.
41 posted on 11/07/2001 7:08:10 PM PST by doug from upland
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To: Wphile
I am with you. The site of this Bozo makes me ill. I believe Gore has some mental problems. The idiot even believes he invented the Internet.

I will boo him like he's Hillary everywhere and anywhere I can find him.

42 posted on 11/07/2001 7:13:09 PM PST by boycott
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To: boycott
Does Woodward still write? I haven't read him in years.

Yes, he came out with "Shadow" last year, which I thought was interesting although he did give Clinton a bit of a free pass on some issues. He also wrote "The Choice" which involved the Clinton/Dole race and "The Agenda" which was perceved by many as tough on Clinton (again I'm not sure I agree).

43 posted on 11/07/2001 7:17:38 PM PST by Randjuke
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To: Singapore_Yank
This one should have had a barf alert.
44 posted on 11/07/2001 7:19:42 PM PST by calmseas
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To: Singapore_Yank
I beg to differ . . . The Supremes did NOT make Bush president . . . Elian Gonzalez made Bush the president !!!

Or. . . I should correctly say. . . the FORCED AT GUNPOINT ABSENCE of Elian made Bush our president !!!

45 posted on 11/07/2001 7:20:55 PM PST by GeekDejure
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To: RightOnline
It's just the opposite for me. I see Woodward as the total geek in high school whose acne cleared up and who got a good job. But the problem is, nobody at the reunion wants to hear him talk about himself anymore.
46 posted on 11/07/2001 7:22:34 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: Singapore_Yank
The Supremes didn't make Bush president. Actually, Uncle Wee Wee and Algore did. By filling up the country with immigrants to pad the DemoCRAPic voting rolls...they just forgot to explain the butterfly ballot to them.

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"It was the issue the presidential candidates and the major media didn't want to talk about -- immigration. And yet immigrants, many of them illegal, may have provided Al Gore with millions of votes on November 7th. Indeed, Gore was the administration official who engineered the fraudulent "Citizenship USA" program that brought illegal aliens with criminal backgrounds and potential terrorists into the U.S. as citizens..."

For more, see About the Clinton/Gore "Citizenship USA" Program

47 posted on 11/07/2001 7:27:53 PM PST by StealthChild
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To: cajungirl
"Bulls@it all of this creeps words."

Couldn't have said it better myself.

48 posted on 11/07/2001 7:28:16 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: Singapore_Yank
Someone tell Woodward to shut up. He had his 5 minutes of fame.
49 posted on 11/07/2001 7:29:22 PM PST by Nogbad
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To: boycott
The sight of this Bozo makes me ill.

I know what you mean. With Clinton, I always had to hit the mute button. With Gore? I had to hit the remote AND leave the room!!

50 posted on 11/07/2001 7:31:57 PM PST by Wphile
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To: Singapore_Yank
Here's a little tip on how to put Gore in the proper perspective: http://www.theonion.com/onion3739/gore_delivers_emergency. html. The article is entitled Gore Delivers Emergency Presidential Address Into Bathroom Mirror. You'll wet yourself laughing. Perhaps a more intrepid Freeper than I could post the whole shebang here??
51 posted on 11/07/2001 7:44:34 PM PST by ggraziano
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To: Singapore_Yank
If Al Gore was President today, America would cease to be as we know it.

Pray for George W. Bush!

Bob Woodward, along with the rest of the media, must be on drugs to keep whooping for Al this late in the game.

52 posted on 11/07/2001 7:47:53 PM PST by pray4liberty
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To: Chief Inspector Clouseau
Thank you for reminding people of that. Dubya won that election so many times that I've lost count.
53 posted on 11/07/2001 7:57:08 PM PST by Samwise
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To: cajungirl
"Supremes made Bush president"

Gee, I bet Diana Ross would be dissappointed to learn that. (heh,heh)

All joking aside - in a way Gore was instrumental in handing the presidency to Bush - it's not real hard to make a candidate look like a geek when he can't decide who he is, or what he actually is responsible for, or who would laud Clinton as "one of greatest POTUS's in our history" can't be all there mentally.

54 posted on 11/07/2001 8:21:20 PM PST by SlightOfTongue
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To: Singapore_Yank
So tell me, Mr. Woodward, where were you and deep throat during the past 8 years?
55 posted on 11/07/2001 8:24:48 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Singapore_Yank
Bob Wormwood doing what he does best, pimping for Democrats.
56 posted on 11/07/2001 8:40:05 PM PST by dr_who
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To: ggraziano
How about just a link. It is a funny one.

Gore Delivers Emergency Presidential Address Into Bathroom Mirror

57 posted on 11/07/2001 9:17:06 PM PST by Mr. Mulliner
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To: Singapore_Yank
Any combination of vote-counting never produced a Gore lead in Florida. Even months after the inauguration, the Florida media Goreophiles were never able to produce the numbers they needed--and even had to credit Bush with more "lost" votes in the re-count.

I'm surprised that Al Gore can walk with all those media types still running around kissing his behind!

58 posted on 11/07/2001 9:21:48 PM PST by MHT
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To: Singapore_Yank
ABC news is the modern equivelant of Radio Hamburg, and Charles Gibson is our own Lord Haw Haw. The only difference is the Brits thought Lord Haw Haw committed treason--we actually WATCH this spew and consider it news.

Bob Woodward is a pathetic whore who made up "Deep Throat" to create his career with Watergate and is now committing treason in an attempt to be considered a senior statesman.

I HOPE YOU WERE ONLY WATCHING THIS VOMIT TO LET US KNOW HOW BAD IT WAS, AND NOT TO ACTUALLY SEE NEWS!

59 posted on 11/07/2001 9:24:40 PM PST by SEA
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To: I_be_tc
If Gore had won EITHER Tennessee OR Arkansas (the home state of the "Greatest President in American History"), Florida would have been a non-issue. Those who knew them best had had their fill of Clinton and Gore!
60 posted on 11/07/2001 9:24:52 PM PST by MHT
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