Am I the only person who thinks that Bob Woodward laid a trap

[rzemanfl]

for Kinda Sleazy re: July meeting and she walked right into it? I think the next few days, maybe as soon as tonight's Larry King, will be very interesting.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. What's Larry the Shallow talking about tonight?

[babylonsister]

2. Woodward is his guest. nt

[rzemanfl]

3. Woodward will be on. n/t

[Nitrogenica]

4. On edit, I would remove the word "Kinda"

[MadMaddie]

5. I have been saying that for the last couple of days....

Write two books praising * and get in good with all of the major players learn all of the lies that they have told the American people and then come out with the truth......

Woodward is not stupid.....he is self serving.....but this is not outside of his skillset....this was no accident.

[rzemanfl]

7. "Plan of Attack " gave anyone who was of the opinion that Bush

was a fundy nut case liar plenty to work with. The fact that people remember it as a pro-Bush book proves that Rove's tactic of defusing Woodward's criticism by putting his book on the White House list of recommended books worked.

[pretzel4gore]

21. 'Wired' was a damn good book....

i despise woodward, see him as a traitor and collaborator and a rat, but.., he brought john belushi to life, and showed how self destruction worked - one would think that the lesson in 'wired' might have tempered woodward's avarice, his depraved need to be among the oppressors

[robinlynne]

6. looks that way, but I dont trust him.

Maybe he realized that going anti bush would sell books. they are jumping off the shelves.

[nam78_two]

8. yeah I am thrown by this....

I had started thinking of him as an administration shill...I am baffled by this :shrug:

[rzemanfl]

10. He is an agent of the intelligence agencies in my opinion.

Selling 900,000 copies of his book so far is a bonus for him. I bought it this afternoon, but am saving the reading for a trip I'm taking this weekend.

[nam78_two]

11. 900,000! wow...../nt

[rzemanfl]

13. That's from yahoo earlier this afternoon, book is in third printing.

Not sure of release date, Friday? Saturday? If someone knows, please post.

[nam78_two]

15. Thursday or Friday I think!/nt

[rzemanfl]

16. Clerk in the bookstore said it was "what everybody was buying

all weekend." (Tampa)

[rzemanfl]

19. Saturday:

Hardcover: 576 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September 30, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN: 0743272234

[slater71]

18. It was out this past Sat 9/30/06

[rzemanfl]

20. Thanks. Wonder how much he gets per copy. n/t

[nam78_two]

22. Oh ok...my mistake

I remember it was being talked about around the time the torture bill passed..

[rzemanfl]

24. There were so many excerpts out there by Friday it might as

well have been published Thursday. It's not like this is a big deal one way or the other.

[rzemanfl]

9. See my post #7 above. n/t

[calimary]

17. Nor do I. He's sold his soul for access.

Maybe THIS time his whoring to this White House had a nice back bounce.

Even so, the first two books only helped burnish bush's image - which didn't help ANYBODY.

Furthermore, I was TREMENDOUSLY put off by his statement on "60 Minutes" last night about how "fascinating" it was to watch how they spin in the White House. Yeah, bob. Fascinating, alright. While more than 27-HUNDRED of our troops have been killed. You've been sitting there, fascinated, while your first two books helped further the agenda of the murderers and war criminals. And you found their machinations "fascinating." REAL cute. If he knew a lot of this while he was cranking out his presidential kneepad gazettes, and kept mum about it, then all the needless deaths, carnage, and wreckage in Iraq is on his conscience, and the blood's on his hands. Because he knew and could have at least tried to stop it - or slow it down even just a little. But for the sake of his book sales and his precious access, he didn't.

All bob woodshed really cares about at this point in his career is selling books. He's made that clear before. His book-writing career WAY trumps his newspaper reporter/editor career. Probably pays better, too, AND gets him more face time on TV, so that's where his allegiance lies. Everybody I worked with on the print side at AP wanted to be writing books. Some of them wanted to be writing books INSTEAD OF writing for newspapers. It's a far more leisurely life, as it is, and far more lucrative in MANY ways.

[babylonsister]

12. Have you noticed that not one person has questioned his

credentials or even honesty (except sleezy)? He does have a lot of clout and credibility.

[rzemanfl]

14. CBS did listen to his interview tapes before he was on "60

Minutes." Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice duh, uhh, duh.... (reference Rathergate).

[stillcool]

23. my whole world ...

is written in pencil. The mental gymnastics required to ascertain fact is best left to one with better tools.