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Woodward: Democracy's Trumpet
Sep. 30th, 2006 04:40 pm♠
Bob Woodward's 2002 book Bush at War portrayed the president in such a heroic light that the Republican National Committee promoted it on their Web site. But Woodward's third Bush book, State of Denial, should probably be for sale on the DNC's Web site. Or perhaps Democrats will just hand it out at campaign rallies.
-- John Dickerson for Slate.com
Woodward comes up big on the political scene again. Again, it is not that Woodward is really telling us anything new, but he brings out the stories in dramatic relief, and this time it is not a tale that basks the president in glory. Dickerson notes, "To battle back, the administration might be inclined to shoot the messenger.... Because he received so much criticism from the left for his first books, the officials suggest, Woodward is trying extra hard to attack the president this time."
Instead, one gets the impression that Woodward's modus operandi is simply to give the people what they want. Whether it is playing to the anti-Nixon energy, or supporting Bush when Americans were most threatened and angry after being attacked after 9/11, or as in this case, going after an unpopular and discredited Administration, Mr. Woodward seems to make the case that the excited crowds want to see made. He may just be following the political winds - a sort of democratic trumpet.
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Bob Woodward's 2002 book Bush at War portrayed the president in such a heroic light that the Republican National Committee promoted it on their Web site. But Woodward's third Bush book, State of Denial, should probably be for sale on the DNC's Web site. Or perhaps Democrats will just hand it out at campaign rallies.
-- John Dickerson for Slate.com
Woodward comes up big on the political scene again. Again, it is not that Woodward is really telling us anything new, but he brings out the stories in dramatic relief, and this time it is not a tale that basks the president in glory. Dickerson notes, "To battle back, the administration might be inclined to shoot the messenger.... Because he received so much criticism from the left for his first books, the officials suggest, Woodward is trying extra hard to attack the president this time."
Instead, one gets the impression that Woodward's modus operandi is simply to give the people what they want. Whether it is playing to the anti-Nixon energy, or supporting Bush when Americans were most threatened and angry after being attacked after 9/11, or as in this case, going after an unpopular and discredited Administration, Mr. Woodward seems to make the case that the excited crowds want to see made. He may just be following the political winds - a sort of democratic trumpet.
