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Bob Woodward condemns media's Russiagate coverage, reveals reporters ignored his warnings about Steele dossier
Fox News ^ | 02-01-2023 | David Rutz | Fox News

Posted on 02/01/2023 12:19:56 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward revealed in a new interview that Washington Post reporters essentially ignored his warnings about the shortcomings of the infamous Christopher Steele dossier, amidst the feverish Russiagate media coverage that dominated the Trump administration.

In a lengthy report for Columbia Journalism Review, Jeff Gerth interviewed media and political figures wrapped up in Russiagate — the sweeping term for the allegations of Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 election — including Donald Trump himself, finding in particular where the media went wrong. Woodward, one of the reporters famous for breaking the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post, told Gerth that viewers and readers had been "cheated" by the coverage.

"Bob Woodward, of the Post, told me that news coverage of the Russia inquiry ‘wasn’t handled well’ and that he thought viewers and readers had been 'cheated.' He urged newsrooms to 'walk down the painful road of introspection,'" Gerth wrote.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: coupaccomplice; dossier; liar; russiagate; steele; woodward
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BLAH BLAH BLAH Watergate retard
1 posted on 02/01/2023 12:19:56 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rats are fleeing from the sinking ship


2 posted on 02/01/2023 12:22:56 PM PST by PGR88 (, )
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I didn’t hear him say this before 2020. Did he tell Carl Bernstein?


3 posted on 02/01/2023 12:23:16 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So the CIA Mockingbird stodge, Bob Woodward, is now trying to get on the other side of his regime changing operations? First Nixon and now Trump? Come to think of it, where was Bob Woodward during the Kennedy Assasination?


4 posted on 02/01/2023 12:24:15 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BS. Woodwork cashed in on the grift. There’s no salvaging his worthless, piece of crap reputation.


5 posted on 02/01/2023 12:24:44 PM PST by DeplorablePaul (protesters)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And yet, did he write ANYTHING about this? No, he only piled on unsubstantiated allegations against Trump. He’s like a crack whore trying to shift the conversation to why her john is carrying so much cash in a bad neighborhood.


6 posted on 02/01/2023 12:24:51 PM PST by dangus
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is Woodward still an asset of the CIA?


7 posted on 02/01/2023 12:25:04 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

oh Bob, you’re livin’ in your own private Idaho


8 posted on 02/01/2023 12:25:23 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Hey, guys!”, he told them. “You can’t just make stuff up! I mean, I can do that. But you can’t.”


9 posted on 02/01/2023 12:25:37 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it’s the other way”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Woodward was in military intelligence before he teamed up with Carl Bernstein.


10 posted on 02/01/2023 12:26:36 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Damage control? Woodward’s colleagues don’t care about facts or objectivity. In fact, few in the media do. See article below.

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/02/01/objectivity-has-got-to-go-news-leaders-call-for-end-of-objective-journalism/


11 posted on 02/01/2023 12:26:55 PM PST by Dragonfly
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To: ConservativeInPA
Is Woodward still an asset of the CIA?

More of an asshat of the CIA.

12 posted on 02/01/2023 12:28:11 PM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Orange man bad! Get Trump! Get Trump!

This weasel has no credibility. I’ve heard his foaming at the mouth opining about the Orange Man before.


13 posted on 02/01/2023 12:29:10 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Sirius Lee

Is it possible that this the ONE time you don’t have video where Bobby wasn’t paid to got in front of the cameras and say “this is even worse than Watergate”?

This guy is more of a one hit wonder than Henny Youngman’s “take my wife.... please”


14 posted on 02/01/2023 12:31:37 PM PST by uranium penguin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Woodward was a long time CIA agent before somehow becoming a ‘reporter’ for a major publication overnight - despite his complete lack of experience. So there’s no chance he’s was a CIA plant to take down Nixon, who was elected by the largest margin in US History [and ended the democrat’s Vietnam adventure BTW]. No chance at all.

His claim to fame is Watergate. We now know Watergate was a CIA operation carried out by CIA agents and the source for his ‘stories’ was a CIA official.

The guy was then, and has always been, a CIA plant.


15 posted on 02/01/2023 12:32:12 PM PST by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So, he wants to be a hero again.


16 posted on 02/01/2023 12:32:53 PM PST by Michael.SF. ( The problem today: people are more concerned about feelings than responsibility)
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To: TakebackGOP

Exactly.

They both were chanting: “Worse than Watergate!”

Cheerleading it even.


17 posted on 02/01/2023 12:33:07 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cancer patient trying to correct mistakes before he is accountable.


18 posted on 02/01/2023 12:33:22 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How many times did Bob say it was bigger than Watergate?


19 posted on 02/01/2023 12:34:25 PM PST by bray ("The Republic of Texas" explains everything )
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To: TakebackGOP
I didn’t hear him say this before 2020. Did he tell Carl Bernstein?

Woodward's coverage of Watergate has become a case study on one-sided, slanted reporting, but to his credit, he called the Steele Dossier "garbage" when it was released and he called out Bernstein for embracing it.

https://nypost.com/2017/01/15/bob-woodward-calls-trump-dossier-garbage/

20 posted on 02/01/2023 12:36:58 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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