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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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To: ChicagoConservative27

Woodward knows journalism is dead as a profession. What he doesn’t know is the part he played in killing it. Along with Bernstein and the Washington Post, they ran Nixon out of office, not because of his so-called crimes, but because they didn’t like him or his politics. That set the table for relentless attacks on all GOP presidents (and covering for all Democrat presidents).


21 posted on 02/01/2023 12:37:53 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thank you, not a Peep throat.


22 posted on 02/01/2023 12:39:32 PM PST by Baldwin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“viewers and readers had been cheated”

How about Donald Trump, whose Presidency was wrecked by partisan scum spewing lies they knew were lies? Was he cheated? How about the members of the public who aren’t communists?


23 posted on 02/01/2023 12:41:26 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: ConservativeInPA

It’s Ike Hotel California. I doubt he left.


24 posted on 02/01/2023 12:42:55 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: TonyinLA

You give him far more credit than he deserves.

He was not CIA. He was born in 1943 and went to Yale in 1961 on a ROTC Navy scholarship. He graduate in 1965 and was assigned to the carrier USSWright. He was assigned as the communications officer and got to handle a lot of classified for the onboard admiral as the ship served as an emergency fleet command post. He got out after five years ( in 1971) and got his gig at the Washington Post. The Watergate story broke in his rookie year there.

There’s no time to fit a CIA career or even much field work in all of that short time.

No doubt he lies and pads his resume but the guy is a real poser.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Woodward


25 posted on 02/01/2023 12:43:52 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman made them look like heroes at the time.


26 posted on 02/01/2023 12:44:47 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Alas Babylon!

Wikipedia can be edited you know?


27 posted on 02/01/2023 12:45:52 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I'm confused. Someone who is inclined to help me understand this, please, do so.

Alright. I read this as Woodyard claiming he wasn't guilty of joining in with other media brethren to convict President Trump as a traitor to his nation. Anyone else hear him correcting the press? At best, maybe he isn't guilty of calling for Trump's head on a platter. Did I miss something? I can't for the life of me, remember him ever saying anything about the dossier being phoney. I despise his smug, once-upon a-time-I-was -famous-attitude. He has to be kidding.

28 posted on 02/01/2023 12:46:06 PM PST by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school. Written in 2015.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bob is doing CYA.


29 posted on 02/01/2023 12:48:02 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Alas Babylon!
He was not CIA.

What the poster meant is that Woodward provided cover for the CIA. He had extensive knowledge of the CIA's involvement in the Watergate break-in, but never reported any of it. It wasn't the correct narrative.

30 posted on 02/01/2023 12:54:42 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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31 posted on 02/01/2023 12:55:11 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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So, who does this guy work for then?


32 posted on 02/01/2023 1:01:21 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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33 posted on 02/01/2023 1:01:42 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I feel kind of bad for him, not real bad, but a little bad.

But then again, maybe if he had done his own, independent investigation, rather than relying on hearsay from other sources, who knows what would have happened . . .


34 posted on 02/01/2023 1:02:26 PM PST by MCSETots
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Forced to Admit


Brokered the whole thing.


35 posted on 02/01/2023 1:03:10 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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FBi knew. Senators Knew.

AG Knew. Before it even started


36 posted on 02/01/2023 1:10:12 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trying to make nice as Trumps lawsuit drops. “Please don’t sue me into oblivion”.


37 posted on 02/01/2023 1:13:56 PM PST by vivenne
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To: AnthonySoprano

Yes, Senators knew, especially Mark/Warner who was instrumental in publicly pushing the narrative and, worse, took the hot potato dossier info from Dianne Feinstein who touch it with 10 foot pole and was key in spreading those lies. He should be in jail. Now he, along with Marco Rubio, are “outraged” that the intelligence agencies wont give them info on Biden’s documents.


38 posted on 02/01/2023 1:18:39 PM PST by vivenne
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NOW we here from the guy who talks to dead people.


39 posted on 02/01/2023 1:21:26 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I thought he said it was, “Bigger than Watergate”


40 posted on 02/01/2023 1:28:20 PM PST by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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