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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoodward Describes Dinner With Gore As Unpleasant-Cuz-Gore Asked Him WHY He Didn't Go After Bush?
Bob Woodward Describes Dinner With Al Gore As UnpleasantHe also told an unflattering, but amusing story about sitting next to former Vice President Al Gore at a dinner, saying being with him was taxing, and added, To be really honest, its unpleasant.
Woodward said Gore pressed him on why the journalist didnt go after Bush, who beat Gore in the 2000 presidential election, over the war in Iraq.
Gore was a former reporter before becoming a politician, and he thinks he invented (reporting) also, Woodward joked in reference to an often misquoted statement that the ex-vice president claimed he invented the Internet.
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Woodward Describes Dinner With Gore As Unpleasant-Cuz-Gore Asked Him WHY He Didn't Go After Bush? (Original Post)
kpete
Apr 2013
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HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)1. Well, yeh, Woodward is a total ass.
He's no Robert Redford.
hlthe2b
(102,121 posts)2. Bob Woodward has long been a disgrace and a RW stenographer.
Thankfully Carl Bernstein is still around and doing good work.
Uggh, Woodward is contemptible.
still_one
(92,061 posts)3. Woodward is a rw shrill. Could care less about that has beens impression
dballance
(5,756 posts)4. Woodward is a total jerk
He has become a RW shill. It is so unflattering of him to insult the former VP. Such disrespect.