Bob Woodward is the most over-praised journalist in modern American history. He’s an “icon” because he took out Richard Nixon. Every book should be titled “Democrats Pounce,” because that’s how these books succeed.
Back in October 2006, when Woodward’s Bush-bashing book State of Denial came out, NBC’s Tim Russert proclaimed: “Mr. Woodward will be all over the media talking about this book, talking about this issue. You know the Democrats will pounce on it.” Yes, “he’ll be all over the media” and “the Democrats will pounce on it” is pretty much the same thing.
This has become a pattern with Woodward when he’s writing Democrats-Pounce books. The next book, The War Within, came out on September 8, 2008.
The trend continued with the anti-Trump books: Fear on September 11, 2018. Rage on September 15, 2020. The Trump Tapes on…
