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Distraction. From. Woodward. (Original Post) Iggo Sep 2018 OP
Well, when you explain it like that... brooklynite Sep 2018 #1
Elaborate ? Nt. drray23 Sep 2018 #2
It is just nonsense manor321 Sep 2018 #3
What's nonsense ? I would not call anything Woodward writes nonsense. drray23 Sep 2018 #8
Squirrel! hlthe2b Sep 2018 #4
It seems to confirm what Woodward wrote. Kaleva Sep 2018 #5
Sure does. Iggo Sep 2018 #7
Should he have not written the book ? How can framing Don the Con as unhinged and unfit to Trust Buster Sep 2018 #6
Not when his book comes out to the public. BigmanPigman Sep 2018 #9
What? mcar Sep 2018 #10
And somehow got his sources all on tape. Woodward's book is the grownups' ... marble falls Sep 2018 #11
All a distraction!!!111 mcar Sep 2018 #13
If we could only figure it out! marble falls Sep 2018 #15
I believe the OP is calling into question the intention ZZenith Sep 2018 #12
Ahhh, that "from"... jcgoldie Sep 2018 #14
What do you mean by that? ZZenith Sep 2018 #16
from jcgoldie Sep 2018 #19
Sorry - I was just having fun with the idea that English is so confusing sometimes. ZZenith Sep 2018 #22
Context free, no link, no quote, no explanation. Useless OP. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #17
Post removed Post removed Sep 2018 #18
I think the OP meant Nonhlanhla Sep 2018 #20
"Where is Task Force 34?... the world wonders". oasis Sep 2018 #21
 

manor321

(3,344 posts)
3. It is just nonsense
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 09:40 PM
Sep 2018

Every time there is a significant news story, some people have to post that it is really a distraction from some OTHER news story.

drray23

(7,619 posts)
8. What's nonsense ? I would not call anything Woodward writes nonsense.
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 09:43 PM
Sep 2018

You mean the fact people look at everything thinking it's some clever maneuver to hide something else?

I think the Woodward's book stands on it's own and it's not an attempt to derail conversation. Its solid journalistic work.

hlthe2b

(102,141 posts)
4. Squirrel!
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 09:40 PM
Sep 2018

(since I've not a clue what you are posting about, I just thought I'd post something for my doggy girl)

 

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
6. Should he have not written the book ? How can framing Don the Con as unhinged and unfit to
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 09:41 PM
Sep 2018

Be president be just a distraction ? I thought that was our whole point of contention from the beginning ?

BigmanPigman

(51,569 posts)
9. Not when his book comes out to the public.
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 09:43 PM
Sep 2018

It comes out on Sept 11th...9/11. I hope it has as half the impact of when the World Trade Center was attacked.

mcar

(42,278 posts)
10. What?
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 09:46 PM
Sep 2018

are you suggesting Bob Woodward spent how many months researching and writing this book as a distraction to benefit Dotard?

marble falls

(57,014 posts)
11. And somehow got his sources all on tape. Woodward's book is the grownups' ...
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 09:56 PM
Sep 2018

version of "Fire and Fury".

ZZenith

(4,115 posts)
12. I believe the OP is calling into question the intention
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 10:08 PM
Sep 2018

of the “anonymous alt-resistance” op-ed.

jcgoldie

(11,613 posts)
19. from
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 11:33 PM
Sep 2018

Could mean Woodward is providing a distraction... or that someone else is distracting from his book... you read it one way and most everyone else the other... I have no idea what the OP meant I was just reveling in the ambiguity of the prepositional phrase...

ZZenith

(4,115 posts)
22. Sorry - I was just having fun with the idea that English is so confusing sometimes.
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 12:06 AM
Sep 2018

But I thank you for your amplification.

Response to Iggo (Original post)

Nonhlanhla

(2,074 posts)
20. I think the OP meant
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 11:39 PM
Sep 2018

That the NYT op-ed was a distraction to take attention away from Woodward's important book.

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