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ificandream

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24. Additionally, Woodward was a registered Republican when Watergate broke.

Reply to ificandream (Reply #23)

Fri Mar 25, 2022, 11:53 AM

Mar 2022

I'm in the middle of listening to the audio of Garrett M. Graff's book, "Watergate," and I didn't know (or forgot) that Woodward was a Republican when the story broke. (Bernstein was a Democrat.) It shows what impartial journalists can do. And he's been all over Republicans for years in his books. I'm really enjoying the book. It goes through a lot of background that I hadn't been aware of or had forgotten.

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I have always been disgusted by the media's bothsiderism but... [View all] dajoki Mar 2022 OP

Woodward broke this current story on Ginni Thomas.... spanone Mar 2022 #1

I was so angry... dajoki Mar 2022 #4

Can you give ma an example, Mr. Woodward of the equivalency on the Democratic side you speak of? Samrob Mar 2022 #13

The false equivalence is a major tool in Russian propaganda toolbox Walleye Mar 2022 #2

Republicans: "You Democrats made us do this." NCDem47 Mar 2022 #8

Yes! Exactly the same dynamic. The bully needs to prey on the weak Walleye Mar 2022 #15

Blaming the victim Rebl2 Mar 2022 #18

+1, uponit7771 Mar 2022 #28

Carl Bernstein is and continues to be the better of the two. Woodward does this hlthe2b Mar 2022 #3

Agreed... dajoki Mar 2022 #6

YES Bernstein is Rebl2 Mar 2022 #19

+ a million spooky3 Mar 2022 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2022 #7

How/Why Mad_Machine76 Mar 2022 #9

Here's the video so folks can judge for themselves. lapucelle Mar 2022 #10

Time for another edition of, they are all the same; gab13by13 Mar 2022 #11

NATO & the European Union KS Toronado Mar 2022 #27

Woodward has always done this. halfulglas Mar 2022 #12

We ain't even close to left yet. twodogsbarking Mar 2022 #14

Fucking disgraceful. Almost as if Woodward is hoping for Chump's "triumphant" bullwinkle428 Mar 2022 #16

The "hope for the future" is that more people recognize this for what it is Hortensis Mar 2022 #17

"Turn the temperature down"??? TNNurse Mar 2022 #20

Woodward accused of 'false equivalency' after claiming that left has antii-democratic impulses LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 #21

Makes you wonder what Woodward is hiding ... Xoan Mar 2022 #22

Sorry, but Woodward helped report one of the greatest journalism stories of the 20th century. ificandream Mar 2022 #23

Additionally, Woodward was a registered Republican when Watergate broke. ificandream Mar 2022 #24

Woodward can be impartial and tell the truth, they're are not separate ideals uponit7771 Mar 2022 #29

Sure, he was honorable at some points... dajoki Mar 2022 #31

Woodward wants to preserve his access to traitors Warpy Mar 2022 #25

Woodward and others are voices. Comcast and the other media behemoths are the ones who jalan48 Mar 2022 #26

Rush Limbaugh is dead. It's time for Limbaughism to die with him. Initech Mar 2022 #30