Newsweek’s Evan Thomas also admitted that “one of the great underreported stories” of the campaign was how the Democrats, not the Republicans, engaged in “the really effective negative campaigning.”
Neither Thomas nor Woodward explains why, during the campaign itself, no one in the major media chose to tell the true story.
Let me guess…the media was unabashedly pro Clinton and anti anything not pro Clinton.
And they want to impeach President Trump for what? Calling Jeff Sessions “mentally retarded”?
By Jack Cashill
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.” Read the rest of this entry »
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