Woodward calls Rumsfeld's memoir "a travesty"

The Washington Post ^ | 03/ 1/2011 | By Stephen Lowman

[US Navy Vet]

Bob Woodward is “flat-out disgusted” with Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir.

“Rumsfeld's memoir is one big clean-up job, a brazen effort to shift blame to others -- including President Bush -- distort history, ignore the record or simply avoid discussing matters that cannot be airbrushed away,” Woodward writes on Tom Ricks’s Best Defense blog. “It is a travesty, and I think the rewrite job won't wash.”

[US Navy Vet]

Words fail me.

[Col Frank Slade]

Go wet your bed Woodward.

[Puppage]

“Rumsfeld's memoir is one big clean-up job, a brazen effort to shift blame to others -- including President Bush -- distort history, ignore the record or simply avoid discussing matters that cannot be airbrushed away,”

How about one example there, Bobby?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Strange guy Woodward - I wager there’s more than a few things we don’t know about him.

[Realman30]

Translation: Bob Woodward is upset because Donald Rumsfeld sold more books than he did.

[Carley]

Did some dead man give Woodward the inside scoop?

[Paladin2]

"The Washington Post reporter outlines contradictions in Rumsfeld’s version of events, including when the administration began focusing on Iraq, when the decision to go to war with the country was made, and on whom the responsibility of post-war planning ultimately fell"

Clearly major issues here.

[Tublecane]

Why do we listen to this guy, again? Oh, right, because of Mark Felt.

[dennisw]

Woodward is a stuck up little prig and hasn’t produced anything useful in decades

[Rapscallion]

As you read the WP article and note the unsupported assertions, accusations, and name calling without reference to specific events, you get the feeling that Woodward is being personal, nit-picky, and as usual, unfair. He mastered the cheap shot long ago. Even if Rummy does make an error here and there, at least he was in the room where the issues were decided; that’s more than The Woody can say.
Most all of Woodward’s information came second and third-hand.

[Constitution Day]

Shut your fat mouth when the adults are talking, Bob.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This from Mr. "I interview dead people" himself.

[muawiyah]

Agreed. Woodward spent so much time working for the Washinton Post there's no amount of penance he can ever pay to keep himself out of the lowest levels of Hades.

So who is he to criticize Rumsfeld?

[boomop1]

He is a famous bed wetter, can’t handle the truth.

[waxer1]

FU Woody.

God I hate these people!!!!

Great book by the way.

[cranked]

Reminds me of what I said or the like when I briefly read some of Woodward’s garbage..... =.=

[ken21]

the book “silent coup” details some of what’s known about woodward.

his rise is curious. with no experience in journalism, the wa wa post hired him.

and then all hell broke loose.

[maggief]

“Woodward is a stuck up little prig and hasn’t produced anything useful in decades”

He’s a ‘Rat tool. Nothing more.

[Huck]

Yes, those are key issues. It wouldn’t surprise me if Rumsfeld was whitewashing.

[Rummyfan]

Bob Woodward is “flat-out disgusted” with Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir.

Well, I've been flat-out disgusted with Woodward for thirty years. What does he think the big deal is?