1974 Redux? Not Remotely

SecDef J. Mattis is calling Bob Woodward’s new book about Pres. Trump a work of fiction.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/09/04/mattis-calls-revelations-about-president-trump-in-woodwards-new-book-fiction/

Among the revelations in veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” Trump allegedly called for the assassination of Syrian president Bashar Assad after the 2017 chemical strike.

“Trump called Mattis and said he wanted to assassinate the dictator,” according to a passage from the book, which will be released Sept. 11.

“Trump called Mattis and said he wanted to assassinate the dictator,” according to a passage from the book, which will be released Sept. 11.

“Let’s f**king kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the f**king lot of them,” Trump said, according to Woodward.

Mattis told the president that he would get right on it.

But after hanging up the phone, he told a senior aide: “We’re not going to do any of that. We’re going to be much more measured.”

The national security team then developed options for the more conventional airstrike that Trump ultimately ordered.

“The contemptuous words about the President attributed to me in Woodward’s book were never uttered by me or in my presence,” Mattis said in a statement. “While I generally enjoy reading fiction, this is a uniquely Washington brand of literature, and his anonymous sources do not lend credibility.”

Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, is quoted as saying the president is an idiot, and that it’s the worst job he’s ever had.

Kelly issued a similar denial through the White House.

“The idea I ever called the President an idiot is not true,” Kelly said in a statement.

He called the book passage “another pathetic attempt to smear people close to President Trump and distract from the administration’s many successes.” (All passages are from the Miitary Times article, at the link above.)

Okay, I get that Woodward doesn’t like Trump. A lot of people don’t like Trump. So what? Is this supposed to be news? But putting words in his mouth? Should I put some words in your mouth, Woodward?

Bob Woodward did his best to get Nixon removed from office and with his coauthor Carl Bernstein, the two of them succeeded. But Woodward is still living on the glamour from those Glory Days at WaPo, the intrigue of Deep Throat, and exposing classified information about the war in Vietnam from Ellsberg, who should have been thrown into jail to share a cell with Nixon, for what he did. And frankly, both Woodward and Bernstein, and Kathryn Graham, who ran WaPo back then, should all have been thrown into jail for publishing that stuff.  It heinously jeopardized American lives over there in Southeast Asia. It was inexcusable.

Watergate has become a metaphor for dirty dog doings in Foggy Bottom. I get that. I was there, watching that crap transpire on live television during the Congressional hearings.

But this ain’t 1974, Woodward, and you don’t have a story. Try to understand that, for once.

There is no collusion going on in WDC. There’s no interference from the Soviet Union, now known as Russia but still the same old-same old Spy vs. Spy game. There is none of the conspiracy to make Trump look bad that you want so desperately to invent, no matter how much you want it to happen. As much as I’d like to go back to gas prices at $.50/gallon for regular (there was no unleaded at that period in history), unlike you, I have no desire to live in the past on faded glory, and watch a non-story turned into nothing more than some bored, retired reporter’s notion that he can again destabilize this country and create trouble where there is none.

There is NO Watergate here, you sap.

Get over yourself, Woodward. There is nothing – zero – zilch – nada – rien going on here except what you’ve tried to cook up out of whole cloth in your pissy mind. If you don’t have anything better to do than create a Tall Tale From Foggy Bottom out of dust bunnies, leftover bubble gum and stale soda crackers, then I suggest you retire to your domicile away from Washington and get over yourself.

Making up fictitious quotes alluded to people whom you did not interview means that you have nothing. Either provide their information or admit that you’re lying.

You have nothing.

You couldn’t write a believable novel if your life depended on it. How do I know that? Because you just had this one published, you sap. As for people in the administration (like John Kelly) calling dTrump an idiot, you should know most of us have said similar things ourselves but we’d rather have Trump in the Oval Office than whatever it was that ran against him.

You have nothing.

What’s the big deal? Trump’s smarter than you are. And while he is a lot of things, he is NOT Richard Nixon, who was also smarter then you have ever been.

I have spent a good deal of time cleaning horse stalls. I know horse shit when I see it. You’ve created quite a pile of it, Bob.

Enjoy the sales while they last, Bob, because – well, while even baloney has a market as sandwich filler, after a while, people want another flavor in their lives. And Watergate means nothing to the generations which are following mine.

And, no – your wishful thinking is not going to get this President unseated. This ain’t the 1970s, like I said. You should pay attention to such things.

What a maroon…..

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