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still_one

(96,436 posts)
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 12:12 AM Jun 2016

Briefly saw Carl Bernstein on a CNN panel, and if I heard right he was joining in with

the R/W refrain that President Obama and Hillary appear weak by not using the term "Radical Islam".

Did he even listen to what the President or Hillary said?

Between him and Woodward, their day has come and gone

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displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
1. I saw him the other day on some cable news crap show.
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 12:14 AM
Jun 2016

He's trying to remain relevant. Not doing a bang up job of it, though.

Cha

(305,137 posts)
4. That's too bad.. I haven't heard it but I read that President Obama
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 12:50 AM
Jun 2016

explained exactly why he didn't use the term "radical Islam".

"Drumming up a controversy" is right.. Obama's got this so chill the **** out everybody.



still one~

LoveMyCali

(2,033 posts)
5. They were talking about it on the Thom Hartmann show today too
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 01:36 AM
Jun 2016

Someone was filling in for Hartmann but I don't know who it was. He was saying that Obama's speech pointed out how weak Hillary had sounded. He was annoying me so I turned the station.

Cha

(305,137 posts)
6. Yeah, it's all about the Hillary hate with those bozos.. they were hating on President Obama
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:01 AM
Jun 2016

too.. not that long ago.

LoveMyCali~

stopbush

(24,630 posts)
7. Trump is being an ass and his poll numbers are falling
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:23 AM
Jun 2016

so the false equivalency crowd has to drum up some bullshit to drag down the Ds to the same level.

That, and some of these guys love playing the role of contrarian. If one of their ridiculous theories or obesrvations pans out, they look like geniuses of the inside game. If not, well, no one remembers when they got it wrong.

caquillo

(521 posts)
13. Bernstein was exposed as a selfish womanizer in ex-wife Nora Ephron's book "Heartburn"
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 07:00 AM
Jun 2016

Which was later turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. According to Ephron, the man had no respect for women.

BlueMTexpat

(15,493 posts)
9. Bernstein was/is not a
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 03:23 AM
Jun 2016

fan of Hillary - and has had little good to say about Prez O.

He and Woodward may once have been icons. But their day has LONG since passed and both are trying in every way they can to make themselves relevant.

They have become sad and pathetic, IMO.

BlueMTexpat

(15,493 posts)
11. Bernstein's book about Hillary
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 06:01 AM
Jun 2016

came out in 2008 and is generally a good read that provides a nuanced and fair picture. https://www.amazon.com/WOMAN-CHARGE-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton/dp/0307388557

More recently, however, he has begun repeating RW slurs and smears in re Hillary's email and carrying the GOP's water for them. See, e.g.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/7/1481227/-Carl-Bernstein-White-House-horrified-at-how-Hillary-Clinton-is-blowing-up-her-campaign



Even Breitbart has been delighted to quote him, but I won't post that here.

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