Bush aide sensed 'Nazi' mood(Woodward: Rove said that 'W" at World Series was like a Nazi Rally)

nypost ^ | November 16, 2002 | By RICHARD JOHNSON with Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson

[KQQL]

PRESIDENTIAL adviser Karl Rove and other members of George W. Bush's administration will have to go into heavy spin control when Bob Woodward's muckraking "Bush at War" hits the stores next week.

The Washington Post reporter was given unheard-of access to top White House aides for the upcoming Simon & Schuster tome, but loose-lipped insiders may soon regret their candor. Excerpts obtained by the Drudge Report contain some of Woodward's revelations.

[section9]

Woodward's books serve as part of the parlour game of Washington politics.

The strategy here is twofold: get at the President by damaging his most trusted political consigliere and create a rift between the White House and Powell.

What Woodward doesn't understand, primarily because he is a liberal, is that there is an interwoven set of loyalties and traditions that permeate this White House. Bush could no more give up on Rove or Powell than he could convert to Islam. Bush values honest advice, and values those who give it to him. Besides, the men and women who serve the President have, in many cases, a shared history that goes back to the first Bush Administration and the first Gulf War.

Now if this were the Clinton White House, the aide in question would be expendable. But this is not the Clinton White House.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[HitmanLV]

I can't wait to hear Woodward's investigative insights into the Wellstone rally!

[Lucky2]

I suggest we all go out an buy the new Bill Gertz book on the President and put Woodward to shame! Let's put Gertz's book at No. 1 on the NYTimes best sellers and let Woodward rot in the cellar.

[sauropod]

Uh dah! Remember him and Bernstein saying that Clinton's Impeachment and His Slickness's problems paled in comparison to Watergate?

[sauropod]

You are right about that.....

[sauropod]

"Woodward is the Al Bundy of journalism"

My nominee for Quote of the Day. 'Pod

[sauropod]

What is an "anit-christ?"

[deport]

The Washington Post reporter was given unheard-of access to top White House aides

I'm sure......

[sauropod]

Yezzzzzzzz.........

[stylin_geek]

Thanks for the nod, 'Pod.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Woodward should have quit after watergate. He had his fifteen minutes and now he wants more.You stop this the old fashioned way.Refuse to buy the book.

[gracex7]

. They would love to paint the Republican control of the branches of power in this country as being related to Nazi control of Germany. It is the ultimate scare tactic.

But surely you can see the similarities between the two. The Nazi Party was very pro-abortion, pro-guncontrol, pro-state funded medical, anti-personal freedom and thought and, and....oh, SORRY...my bad.

[sauropod]

Don't forget very altuistic and environmentalist as well.

[sauropod]

De Nada.

[Sal]

What Woodward wrote is: "Watching from owner George Steinbrenner's box, Karl Rove thought, it's like being at a Nazi rally." In other words, Woodward isn't even claiming to quote anything Rove said. He is claiming to quote what Rove thought. Wow, isn't Woodward amazing? No wonder he is such a great reporter. He can read minds!

ATTN: Media Lurkers (we know you're here)

When you interview The Great Carnac, and you will, will you ask him why he treats us to his speculations as fact? As background, will you ask him if this is the same "expertise" he used to get information from a comatose Casey?

We are watching and we are judging your own credibility. It's already just about as comatose as Casey was...

[Gritty]

Woodward has become a tired old Liberal gasbag, and might as well be wearing a sign, "Will write lies for food"!

Pathetic. But then, most Liberals are!

[Bubba_Leroy]

I'll even draft the question for them.

"In your book, you claim to report what Rove thought during the post-Sept. 11 World Series game. Did Rove tell you that is what he was thinking? If so, do you have tapes of your conversation with Rove to prove it?"

[beckett]

Karl Rove thought, it's like being at a Nazi rally.

The most poisonous word, Nazi, is not in direct quotes! Did Rove say this? Or did Woodward just crawl into his mind and find he was thinking the word Nazi?

[Ghengis]

You'll notice that there is no direct quotation.

I didn't notice that until you pointed it out. The quotation marks in the article are quoting Woodward, not Rove.

What Woodward wrote is: "Watching from owner George Steinbrenner's box, Karl Rove thought, it's like being at a Nazi rally." In other words, Woodward isn't even claiming to quote anything Rove said. He is claiming to quote what Rove thought. Wow, isn't Woodward amazing? No wonder he is such a great reporter. He can read minds!

Wasn't Bob Woodward the Washington Post Editor who fired the African-American, female reporter for writing a false series of columns? Columns that were created out of whole cloth and had no basis in fact?

I remember when the comparison of her transgressions and his "interview" with William Casey were compared, he and the Washington Post seem to feel much less support for the African-American, female reporter than for white bread, limo-liberal Bob Woodward.

Or maybe I am just looking at this through my own prism, as Katie Couric would pontificate.

[Publius6961]

Woodward goes on to depict Cheney as obsessed with Saddam Hussein: "Cheney was beyond hell-bent for action against Saddam. It was as if nothing else existed."

Sounds like both the author and Powell still fail to see the nature of Islam and the mechanics of that peculiar culture. For people in national leadership (and here I would include the president) it is a fatal flaw.

A symbolic response, in their own language (destruction) would have had a profound effect on all the sand maggots, and attenuated somewhat subsequent murders around the world.

Destroying a couple of Saddam's palaces, for instance...
You know, something not of any real value.