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Woodward's Really Going to Regret This (Original Post) bigtree Feb 2013 OP
. bigtree Feb 2013 #1
I'm also questioning Woodward's legacy. 'Derp throat.' That's gonna leave a mark... freshwest Feb 2013 #2

freshwest

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2. I'm also questioning Woodward's legacy. 'Derp throat.' That's gonna leave a mark...
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 03:52 AM
Feb 2013
at the man 'who brought down a President' and has now been brought down to the level of a toady of the Republican smear machine:

New Conservative Hero Bob Woodward Has an Obama Threat Level Problem

http://news.yahoo.com/conservative-hero-bob-woodward-obama-threat-level-problem-040141997.html

At the same page, this link from 2011:

Obama Has Been Scandal-Free for 28 Months



Bored with Obama's (relatively) drama-free presidency so far? According to Brendan Nyhan, of the University of Michigan, the president is due for his first big scandal pretty soon. The political scientist and blogger defines a political scandal as "a widespread elite perception of misbehavior whose occurrence is also influenced by political and media context." Then he took a look at the front page of The Washington Post:

I collect data for 1977–2008 (the period for which Post archives are available in electronic form). Controversies concerning the president and executive branch were defined as being called scandals if they were described as such (i.e., “scandal”) in the reporter’s voice or the headline. From this set of articles, I determine the first time the Post published a front-page story focusing on the controversy in question. This restriction helps identify the most salient controversies at the point at which they become highly prominent and generate widespread coverage...


http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/05/obamas-34-months-without-scandal/38197/

May be why Woodward is dying to make one up. As far as waiting for one, Andrew Sullivan said:

It couldn't be because he is not corrupt and that that standard has not trickled down?

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2011/05/26/the-coming-obama-scandal/

Give it up, Bob, your ship has sailed...


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