Woodward's Been A Bushie For Years

Bob Woodward -- what a hero he and Carl Bernstein were to me and the millions of others who watched as they systematically helped unravel the Nixon presidency.  This week's revelations that Woodward was told about Valerie Wilson a month before Walter Pincus, Bob Novak and Joe Wilson himself made the story public, that Woodward asked Pincus to leave him out of his reporting, that he failed to tell his editorial bosses at the Post for two years while the story swirled and grew, are a sad end to his reputation. 

Perhaps it wouldn't have been been so bad if he hadn't spent the summer on the TV talk show circuit saying that Plamegate was insignificant and was being blown up by the media.  Perhaps it wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't spent the last decade sucking up to the Bush family, acting as their mouthpiece on Iraq on Larry King and elsewhere.  Perhaps it wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't grown so rich and smug looking.

Time to go, Bob.