There’s big money in controversy! Nobody has learned to milk it better than Michael Moore and Jesse HiJackson! The particular topic, and the veracity of the content, is irrelevent. What will sell is.

All that changed when “Plan of Attack” came out. I was carrying a copy around over Thanksgiving in rural Kentucky, and one woman remarked to me, “Oh, I wouldn’t read that. Bob Woodward used to be good, but that book is full of lies.”

In my own experience, I’ve found Woodward to be both extensive in his research and more than fair in the conclusions he draws from both research and his lengthy interviews.

But then again, I’m probably what most of your audience would consider a worthless liberal. I just don’t think truth neccessarily corresponds to cheerleading this or any other administration, and Woodward clearly had his fill as well.

Read the books, if you haven’t. I think they’d be eye-opening.

Examples?

I disliked Woodward before he wrote any of those boooks. A reporter is supposed to be unbiased. Once that line is crossed, he/she hasn’t the right to claim to be a journalist, as they are entering the arena of op/ed. It doesn’t matter what “side” he/she is writing for.

Woodward even seems to cross those boundries though, taking op/ed and very liberally twisting facts until they are a shadow of what they once were. It is unfortunate, as he seems to be another victim of extreme polarization, ala Jimmy Carter (if not a great President, once a great man I at one time respected, but no longer)

Truth hurts.