THE GRAPHIC above is from Gawker, with John Wood doing a massive take down of Bob Woodward, who is getting pilloried by the press and established journalists. The graphic is apt, because Woodward went out on a limb and his colleagues sawed it off. Wood also goes back over Woodward’s career, including the Watergate tale, [...]
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From Reporter to Economic Activist, Bob Woodward In White House Crosshairs [Email Text]
“You’re focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. … I think you will regret staking out that claim.” – Gene Sperling to Bob Woodward GENE SPERLING‘s conversation with Bob Woodward has exploded into a tale where [...]
Top Story — Obama’s 2011 Grand Bargain Detailed in Documents Obtained by Bob Woodward
“He is, in his gut, a fiscal conservative. There is a Blue Dog Streak in him.” – David Plouffe in The Price of Politics, by Bob Woodward IF YOU haven’t read Bob Woodward’s latest book, The Price of Politics, you may not appreciate the documents below fully. We’re about to see Obama’s “excessive pragmatism,” as [...]
George McGovern Told the Truth About Nixon and Still Lost
THE MAN who couldn’t beat a lying, felonious crook like Richard Nixon is dead. Headlines blared, but the voter wouldn’t listen. Just look at the ad above and marvel at the willful ignorance of the American people. It illustrates that a man speaking the truth can still lose whenever the American voter chooses to ignore [...]
Mitt Romney Should Challenge Obama on the Payroll Tax Cut that Tim Geithner Wants on Chopping Block
Independent analysts say that the expiration of the tax cut could shave as much as a percentage point off economic output in 2013, and cost the economy as many as one million jobs. That is because the typical American family had $1,000 in additional income from the lower tax. [New York Times] YOU HAVE TO [...]
Obama and Medicare, the Coming Unraveling
HIDING BEHIND Paul Ryan’s Medicare voucherism has made President Obama’s campaigning a lot easier and his next move on the program seem reasonable. Watching this unfold, going all the way back to the summer of 2011, waiting until after November for the trigger to be pulled, has made this election cycle surreal. This is election [...]
Woodward’s Obama Saga: The Debt Deal Collapse
“I was pretty angry,” the president told Woodward about the breakdown in negotiations. “There’s no doubt I thought it was profoundly irresponsible, at that stage, not to call me back immediately and let me know what was going on.” – Bob Woodward Book: Debt Deal Collapse Led to ‘Pure Fury’ From President Obama THE DEBT [...]
Ben Bradlee Questions Deep Throat and Red Flag in Flower Pot
Did that potted [plant] incident ever happen? … and meeting in some garage. One meeting in the garage? Fifty meetings in the garage? I don’t know how many meetings in the garage … There’s a residual fear in my soul that that isn’t quite straight. – from “Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben [...]
BARNES & NOBLE Chooses THE HILLARY EFFECT in ‘NOOK First’ Featured Authors Campaign
It’s incredibly exciting to announce that The Hillary Effect has been selected as one of two non-fiction e-books in the Barnes and Noble “NOOK First” featured authors campaign, just launched. Being selected as part of this “NOOK First” Barnes and Noble project was an incredible honor and opportunity. Now you know why we waited until [...]
Update on the The Hillary Effect
Today’s not going to be the day we publish, but I promise we’ll have a big send off for the publication next week! It will be worth the wait. Some book PR to give you a little more on what it’s all about. Spanning nearly two decades of American politics, The Hillary Effect is the [...]
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Taylor Marsh Authors The Hillary Effect – Politics, Sexism and the Destiny of Loss
Due out in November. Available on Amazon.com, on your Kindle, Barnes & Noble, Nook, and iPad. Spanning nearly two decades of American politics, The Hillary Effect is the provocative and insightful story of the first viable female presidential candidate in history to win a primary and do so in spite of her campaign team’s mistakes. [...]
ABC News: Leon Panetta to Replace SecDef Gates, Petraeus to CIA
**UPDATED** Sources tell ABC News that President Obama will nominate CIA director Leon Panetta to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The president will nominate Gen. David Petraeus to serve as director of the CIA. The president will also nominate Marine General John Allen to replace Petraeus as ISAF commander in Afghanistan, and Ryan Crocker as [...]
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