Good. Why interview him if they won’t let ya read the book you are to interview him about? Bob, what’s the problem?

He can always go on Rachel’s show, where she doesn’t have to read the book! – just pander to the endless procession of ideologically discredited Progrssives populating her network.

NORBIT said:
He can always go on Rachel’s show, where she doesn’t have to read the book! – just pander to the endless procession of ideologically discredited Progrssives populating her network.

Do you ever come up for air?

Excellent choice for Woodward’s publisher. Hey, Feaux Newsless! How do you like it when someone doesn’t kiss your ass?

It is kinda cheap of Woodward not to give out an advance copy but what is Greta gonna do?Another bored to tears 30 minutes with Rove,Gingrich,Morris,Palin,Bolton which is unpaid campaign ads and infomercials for whatever books they are hawking that week.Bob Woodward is still the premier journalist in our country and if you can book him I’d sure as hell watch.There has been some pretty good leaks from the book already.Greta gets a chance to badmouth Obama and turns it down?Not following the Fox Script.

hgovernick said:
Excellent choice for Woodward’s publisher. Hey, Feaux Newsless! How do you like it when someone doesn’t kiss your ass?

Yes, asking an author who is promoting a new book to let you read it first is really asking him to kiss your ass.

Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

Someone must have given you a shot of “no brains.”

I’ve never understood the attraction of Bob Woodward. I love history, but I would never read one of his books. The one’s I have looked at have no footnotes. It is not possible to write history, or at least good history, without references. Otherwise, it’s kinda like reading Page Six–is it accurate, or is it gossip?

“Indeed! Rachel Maddow tweeted out her support of Greta’s decision.”

Glynnis, please. I doubt Rachel Maddow (or you) feels the same way about book’s Woodward wrote on the Bush or Reagan administrations. It’s just that now your boy is getting gored, and you don’t like it.

Greta who just flew to Alaska to spend three long, whole, expensive days with Sarah Palin who is her husband’s client and can’t find seven minutes for arguably the most successful presidential reporter the last 30 years?

She is a shameful disgrace to the news profession.

Woodward gets powerful people to say things about important issues like war,supreme court,economic policy, and rat out government crooks does Watergate ring a bell.Also he lets in reading public in on how our elected and appointed leaders really think in private away from the handlers.And they never deny what he says is true.And both Republicans and Democracts get the same treatment.This guy is good.

Instead of pouting over not getting the book in advance, why doesn’t she reschedule him for next week, after the book is out? What’s the big deal?

hgovernick said:
Excellent choice for Woodward’s publisher. Hey, Feaux Newsless! How do you like it when someone doesn’t kiss your ass?

I guess you didn’t see RM’s tweet in support of Greta. I guess she wants Woodward to kiss MSNBC’s ass as well.

First – Greta can’t afford the book, she spends all her money on plastic surgery. Second, she wouldn’t fork out the money for the book. Third, Woodward will get much more publicity now then if he would have gone on her show.
Besides, do we really learn anything that we didn’t know from Woodward’s book?

hgovernick said:Hey, Feaux Newsless!

Feaux? WTF does that even mean? It’s not even a word! If you’re going to use really tired old cliches, at least learn how to spell the damn thing! What a frickin spaz.

Come on my conservative brothers and sisters!! Did you not read the leaks that put the Obama war cabinet in a less than positive light?The real headline is Obama makes a very pragmatic decision goes against Biden (who I think is right) and sides with Hillary and and the generals to add 30,000 troops but have an exit strategy because you can’t be at war forever and he would lose all his Democratic base.And all the badmouthing og military and White House spin doctors.This is real time shit.Let’s see how the teabaggers would do it.

chucken said:
Come on my conservative brothers and sisters!! Did you not read the leaks that put the Obama war cabinet in a less than positive light?

It is hardly news that Obama and other leftist Democrats are assholes. Look at how they forced Obamacare thru the Congress. So no, we need a confirmation from a Postie like Bobby Woodward. We have all the info we need for Nov 2, but thanks anyway.

The United Nations Maintains Its Bias
Was anyone surprise that the paper tigers at the UN, who authored the biased report on the Flotilla incident, came out against Israel? The only thing that surprised me was how long the report took or perhaps it was prolonged… so to give the appearance of objective deliberations. The United Nations personnel, most of whom were born Anti-Semitic from their respective mother’s womb, basically said that Israel used disproportionate force… I can only imagine what the report would have said if there were no pictures, which can be seen currently on YouTube, showing the self defense tactics engaged in by the Israeli military during the incident in question.

When one juxtapose the UN report to what can be seen on You Tube, it is tantamount to something out of George Orwell’s 1984. The fact that one can see evidence contrary to what is written in the UN report maintains that organization’s constant refrain of bias against the Jewish State… I have written before that somewhere in the UN, there are biased reports on the ready against Israel… with only the date needed to be attached… and in case where there is a new Secretary General, then the attachment of his name as signatory. Just once, the UN should come out with an objective report concerning incidents between the Israelis and the Arabs. How are fair minded people supposed to look at the Unite Nations in light of the empirical evidence readily available?

This latest Unite Nations report against Israel should be another object lesson for the Jews, which confirms that they are alone in this world – and make no mistake as to where our secular messiah president sentiments are in this internecine conflict between Jew and Arab. And a broader note and similar vein, if Israel is going to carry out a preemptive strike against the Mullahs in Iran, I hope that Netanyahu does not inform the Obama administration until the payloads are delivered… such is the lack of trust between a once storied alliance.

“It is hardly news that Obama and other leftist Democrats are assholes.”

Nice. Great contribution to the thread, genius. Yes and nothing “assholish” about Republicans right? Dick Cheeny and McCain are just such real nice guys. NOT.

” Look at how they forced Obamacare thru the Congress.”

It’s called passing a bill. Your side employed all kinds of similar measures (and worse) to get all kinds of legislation passed from 2000-2006.

Our turn.

“Good. Why interview him if they won’t let ya read the book you are to interview him about? Bob, what’s the problem?”

—The problem is that liberals hate Fox so much that they won’t even give a Fox reporter praise even if she does the right thing. Giving Bob Woodward an interview without having read his book doesn’t give you the opportunity to ask tough questions. Gretta’s right, this isn’t the Home Shopping Network or The Daily Show, Fox News is fascinating BECAUSE they ask tough questions.

Azarkhan said:
I’ve never understood the attraction of Bob Woodward. I love history, but I would never read one of his books.

Azarkhan said:
Glynnis, please. I doubt Rachel Maddow (or you) feels the same way about book’s Woodward wrote on the Bush or Reagan administrations. It’s just that now your boy is getting gored, and you don’t like it.

How would you know what’s in his books if you,ve never read them? Or are you just going by what your fellow wingnuts tell you?

Really Greta? Not the home shopping channel? Your network regularly allows Angle, O’Donnell and all the other wingnut teabaggers to come on and whore themselves and their website to solicit money from the rubes who watch. Go back to interviewing Palin for the trillionth time. She’s more your speed. Oh and a touch on that facial reconstruction is long overdue!

Oh, and I can’t wait for this site to post the interview Keith did with Anthony Weiner about the testimony elicited from the Goldline CEO. He’s ripping off you idiots. Shocking!

the real john t said:
How would you know what’s in his books if you,ve never read them?

When I buy a history book, and I own several hundred, two things I always check are footnotes and bibliography. I want to know that the author has done the research. Also, in a well researched book, the footnotes can be as fascinating and informative as the text itself.

I’ve looked thru some of Woodward’s books, and read sections from them, but for me they don’t qualify as “history” because he doesn’t have references.

Now the real question, unreal-john-t, is why I wasted my time responding to you. What can I say–it’s a slow night.

roxsteady said:
Really Greta? Not the home shopping channel? Your network regularly allows Angle, O’Donnell and all the other wingnut teabaggers to come on and whore themselves and their website to solicit money from the rubes who watch. Go back to interviewing Palin for the trillionth time. She’s more your speed. Oh and a touch on that facial reconstruction is long overdue!

You’re quite unintelligent. She has on people from both parties all the time.

NORBIT said:
He can always go on Rachel’s show, where she doesn’t have to read the book! – just pander to the endless procession of ideologically discredited Progrssives populating her network.

Rachel Maddows tweet upon hearing the news:

Right on, Greta! http://is.gd/fpyB9

Good grief.

Azarkhan said:
“Indeed! Rachel Maddow tweeted out her support of Greta’s decision.”

I read this as solidarity among journalists – no, we will not let you own the interview. Good for both women.

shootfromthehip said:
Nice. Great contribution to the thread, genius. Yes and nothing “assholish” about Republicans right? Dick Cheeny and McCain are just such real nice guys. NOT.

This from YOU!

LOL

The more books Woodward writes, the more arrogant he becomes.

She HAS to have it NOW so she can fob it off on some miserable flack to read and precis asap PEOPLE.

Frankly, Greta, I wouldn’t watch this bozo anyway. I think he is way over-rated and I stopped reading any of his cruddy books.

Paul Westlake said:
I read this as solidarity among journalists – no, we will not let you own the interview. Good for both women

If you believe that, I’m afraid I have some more bad news for you. There is no Santa Claus.

Azarkhan said:
If you believe that, I’m afraid I have some more bad news for you. There is no Santa Claus.

Yes, because what I meant by that is not a momentary collegiality that arises now and then when two competitors find themselves on common ground, but a total alliance and coordination that exists between all journalists everywhere, you know, the secret TV club that nobody belongs to and nobody can ever find. Yeah, that’s what I meant. LOL!

Rachel Maddow is a pitiful excuse for a host. If she was worth anything she would run her show as if Fox didn’t exist. Instead she is constantly referring to them.

I think she has Fox Envy.

@dandmb50 I don’t think it is unreasonable to ask to read his book before the interview even if it is Woodward, it seems to me it’s just a pissing contest. At least he’s a real writer not one of these books that is “with” a real author.

Daniel .. Toronto, CANADA
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@dandmb50 I don’t think it is unreasonable to ask to read his book before the interview even if it is Woodward, it seems to me it’s just a pissing contest. At least he’s a real writer not one of these books that is “with” a real author.

Daniel .. Toronto, CANADA
My personal BLOG

Greta has long ago beome a stench in the nostrils of the very word, “decency.” Over-fed ego with matching under-fed intellects. Her false arrogance a cover-up for weakness. Scum de classe. Nouvbeau riche. So typical of the “Little People.”

Supplying a book prior to being interviewed has been a long standing complimentary standard that all authors give to the person interviewing them. The issues here go far beyond, just not supplying a book. Greta is right when she says she owes it to her audience to know what the author of a book is trying to say.
Mr.Woodward seems to think he’s above being interviewed on the constructs of his words and is telling Greta, “you don’t need to know, just shut up and listen, I know better, and after all…I’m Bob Woodward”!! If anybody has an over-fed ego here, it’s Mr.Woodward!