In a nauseating confession to 63-year-old CBS “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley, 78-year-old former Washington Post Watergate-famed journalist Bob Woodward admitted he was not an independent journalist any longer but no different than 55-year-old Mary L. Trump [the president’s niece], 71-year-old former National Security Adviser John Bolton or even 54-year-old former Trump personal attorney and convicted felon Michael Cohen. All have unbridled hatred of Trump and want him defeated in the Nov. 3 presidential election. What’s different about Woodward is the utter arrogance riding on his two Pulitzer Prizes and past reputation to sell books, claiming he’s an objective journalist. Woodard concluded in his book “Trump’s not the right man for the job,” proving he’s a Democrat hack, working hard to deny Trump a second term, pretending he’s a journalist.
Woodward’s conclusions drawn from 19 hours of interviews with Trump are astonishing in their distortions and misinterpretations. He claims Trump lied to the public about the severity of the coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-19 because of tape recordings, hearing Trump say he “downplayed” the virus to avoid spreading panic with the public. Trump never told Woodward his Coronavirus Task Force, led by 61-year-old Vice President Mike Pence, was not doing everything possible stop the spread of the virus. Putting National Institutes of Health Dr. Anthony Fauci at the top of the medical team, Trump took the virus seriously. Citing a minor national security adviser who allegedly warned Trump that the coronavirus could be as bad as the 1918 Spanish Flu global pandemic, Woodward concludes Trump knew how bad the crisis. No one knew, including Fauci, what would eventually happen.
Woodward used his journalism trade in the most devious ways, stringing together out-of-context statements to weave a political narrative against Trump, the same as Mary Trump, Bolton, Michael Cohen and other former Trump employees that used the Election Year to sell tell-all books. “It might disappoint some of your fans that you reach and editorial conclusion at the end of the book, something that reporters are not supposed to do,” Pelley told Woodward. “Yes, I say the president is the wrong man for the job,” Woodward admitted. “But, you’re known as the reporter who doesn’t put his thumb on the scale. And yet, at the end of the book, you do just that,” Pelley said. Three cheers for Pelley warning his audience and readers that the once journalist was really no different than anyone with an ax to grind against Trump. Woodward told Pelley, he was different, because his book was based of facts.
Woodward’s book is a textbook case of propaganda, using, what looks like facts, to misinterpret, twist, cajole, influence and gaslight readers into believing his homespun tale. Woodward’s conclusions are so conspicuously partisan, so biased, so out of line for a journalist, they might have been written by 77-year-old former Vice President and Democrat nominee Joe Biden’s campaign manager. Biden just got done blaming Trump for the nearly 200,000 U.S. deaths from the coronavirus global pandemic. Woodward mentions nothing in his book about Dr. Fauci saying Trump did everything possible, didn’t keep anything from the public. But by twisting Trump own words, Woodward thinks he can buffalo the public. Woodward’s destroyed his book’s credibility admitting that he’s biased, thinks Trump is the “wrong man for the job,” using his journalistic skills to prove his point.
Woodward’s everything that’s wrong with today’s journalism, crossing the once impenetrable line between facts and fiction, between reporting and opinion. Woodward’s book is pure opinion based on manipulating facts to prove his point. When you consider that 98% of today’s reporting has been negative against Trump, it tells the story of how the Democrat Party has infiltrated newsrooms around the broadcast and print industry. Former 86-year-old CBS “Nightly News” anchor Dan Rather was fired in 2004 for letting former Democrat nominee John Kerry’s campaign infiltrate the CBS newsroom. Now its so commonplace, so ubiquitous, so routine, few people even notice it. Entire cable news operations like CNN and MSNBC operate without any pretence that they’re opposed to everything Trump, doing anything-and-everything to see him defeated in the Nov. 3 election.
Woodward is long past his prime, but, more importantly, still has the ego to think that he’s beyond reproach, allowed to peddle his opinion as fact because of his past Pulitzer Prizes and work at the Washington Post. Today’s Washington Post, like the New York Times, is so disgraceful with their open, transparent political bias, has zero journalistic integrity or credibility. Woodward falls into the same category but continues unlike most journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post, to line his pockets, becoming one of the richest print journalists in the country. At 78-years-of-age, you’d think Woodward would retire but, like so many politicians unwilling to go quietly into the night, they continue to rake in the cash as long as possible. Watching Woodward exploit his past reputation as a respectable journalist to sell books wouldn’t be so bad if he’d admit he’s a Democrat political hack.
