God, Robert Redford must TRULY be embarrassed he played Woodward in All The Presidents' Men ...
Because Redford, god bless him, still maintains an authentically 60s sensibility -- despite the Sundance Channel's DEEPLY misguided commitment to promoting Al Franken -- despite his wealth and power ...
Of course he's not perfect ... we've all heard the stories about he lets his less prestigious colleagues develop projects, and then swoop down and take them over if they turn out well and he's interested ...
But STILL ... he's nothing like Bob Woodward, who really should be fired from the Post, altho we all know that is MOST unlikely to happen ...
For the whole two years of the Fitzgerald investigation, he went on Larry King and all the Sunday morning talk shows and every other media outlet and TRASHED the whole effort ...
WITHOUT ever acknowledging to anyone that he himself was a potential participant in that investigation ...
The fact that he didn't tell his editors just DESTROYS the constant refrain of the MSM that what distinguishes them from the blogosphere is their system of fact-checking and controls ...
which is not to say that 99% of what's on the web IS, indeed, crap ...
But, then again, so is 99% of what the MSM puts out ...
Their supposed system of fact-checking and responsibility has, for years, been undermined by the disgusting collusion between media and politicians in Washington,
which has pretty much destroyed whatever integrity might have once existed -- say, maybe in the late 1970s -- that the DC press corps once had ...
The beginning of the current stage, of course, was their revolting performance in the 2000 "election" -- something that should NEVER be forgotten -- which has just spiralled downward ever since ...
And this latest thing with Woodward is the capper ... let's hope Fitzgerald realizes that he's been played by the whole Washington establishment, and indicts Woodward for suppression of evidence ...
AND goes back and puts the squeeze on the anti-human FUCK Karl Rove ...