How Many Woodwards Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?

Having repeatedly eviscerated Tim Russert, Arianna has moved on to Bob Woodward, labeling him the ‘dumb blonde’ of American journalism. He is, she says, “so awed by his proximity to power that he buys whatever he’s being sold. In her scathing 1996 essay in the New York Review of Books, Joan Didion criticized Woodward’s reporting as marked by ‘a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.'”

She continues: “Woodward also told [Larry King] ‘I am strictly in the middle.’

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