Friday, November 18, 2005

Overwhelmingly Negative Reaction to BobWoodward

Editor&Publisher: WashPost Ombudsman Deborah Howell has received 100s of calls and e-mails from readers since Weds's revelations about Bob Woodward's involvement in the Plame leak case, and none of them are positive: "I am getting a lot of reaction from readers, it is all bad. We are being barraged w/ calls. They think it was wrong for him not to tell his editors and wrong for the Post not to tell readers." Howell also pointed out that the e-mails "are all very different. I have not seen [an organized] campaign." Well, Joe Wilson certainly takes issue w/Woodward's 2 yr long lies: "It certainly gives the appearance of a conflict of interest. He was taking an advocacy position when he was a party to it." Wilson's sentiment is echoed at Fishbowl: "I admire the hell out of Bob, but this looks awful."- Charles Babington. "I think this whole affair of jrnlists and politicians using anonymity to trade info and then cast themselves as protectors of the common good stinks." - Robert Pierre. Arianna asks 15 key questions of Woodward, and I think she's dead-on about these. They need to be asked b/c Woodward had the nerve to keep his job at the WaPo, which was being actively investigated by Fitzgerald, WHILE he hid behind the prestige of a job that had access to the WH, where he acted as their mouthpiece yet did not tell his employers what he knew pertaining to the CIA leak. And the lies gets worse: On NPR Woodward said "There is not the kind of compelling evidence that there was some crime involved here." He consistently dismissed Fitzgerald, saying his behavior was "disgraceful". Yeh Bob... when it comes to disgraceful, you know all about it, don't you?
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