Bob Woodward is an idiot.

[Are_grits_groceries]

He's on with Chris Matthews and he said the Boston Marathon bombing was not really a big event. He also said there were no outside connections.

It is not on the scale of 9/11, but it was very personal. It also hit us in a very vulnerable area. People can shrug off to an extent the huge events because they seem unreal.

People now see how easy it is to create mayhem from basic materials. Bombs in backpacks is a nightmare that hits close to home.

[BlueCaliDem]

1. I've known that ever since he cozied up to Bush and Cheney. eom

[tularetom]

2. Wow! Bob Woodward and Chris Matthews together

I can't think of anything I'd rather not witness than those two fools pontificating about the events of the day.

[truebluegreen]

19. +1000

[TwilightGardener]

3. I actually agree with Bob--other countries deal with this shit regularly, without

living fearfully or dramatically changing the way they run the country. If we don't overreact, maybe the terror-minded won't get their jollies. (didn't see the interview, but taking your word for it) Edit to add: mass shoot'em-ups happen every few months, we take that in TOO much stride and shrug it off, but overreact to terrorism. Maybe it seems scarier when the act is from foreigners. Weird.

[Are_grits_groceries]

6. The point is that we don't deal with it regularly.

This bombing may be another turning point in tightening security and applying more restrictive measures.

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. Wonderful. n/t

[alarimer]

12. I do too.

In fact we are in more danger from people we know, statistically speaking.

Thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands are shot yearly in this country. Many of them die and yet we shrug it off. Not that we should shrug off either thing. But we wet our pants every time anything else happens and that has allowed the erosion of civil rights.

It's how the Patriot Act abomination passed.

Part of it is that we do not know how to estimate risk. We overestimate risk from some things (terrorism) and underestimate risk from others (smoking, driving) for whatever reason.

[bobclark86]

13. Of course it is...

He's from Dirk-Dirkastan or some damn place like that.

Three people killed at a grocery store on Chicago's south side? It might get a "If only the pickle section had gunz! lol" in GD and that's about it. Three people bombed at a marathon? Shut down a major metropolitan area for a week, have every talking head on cable news going completely insane and cause an entire nation to panic.

[MattBaggins]

4. Bob Woodward has always been an idiot

He was chosen by deepthroat because of that fact. He was just smart enough to be a useful tool and just dumb enough to never really figure anything out.

[scarletwoman]

5. "Bob Woodward is an idiot." Good thing you didn't post that in LBN, wouldn't qualify.

[graham4anything]

7. Deep Throat convinced me Bob Woodward was known to give the answers DT wanted given

and Carl would never have gone along with so easily finding breadcrumbs without questioning it

And Bob is beloved by most of the nation like Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert was.
None of the three deserved it. And woodward is "the Observer" now
Inside access and reporting.
(hey, I wonder if JJ Abrams' Fringe got the idea about the Observers from Bob Woodward.)


to paraphrase Paul Simon
where have you gone Dan Rather, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

[bushisanidiot]

8. Compared to oklahoma city or 9/11, the damage was minimal

I think they had just learned how to make bombs and wanted to test them out in a place that would get some press. If they were lookinig for maximum damage, they did a very poor job.

[LuvNewcastle]

16. Pretty much what I think

[Greybnk48]

9. Bernstein catapulted the moron to fame.

He's since been a Republican hack.

[bobclark86]

14. He always was...

The two of them were both right-leaning (Bob a registered Republican, Carl an independent).

That's why it was less of a "liberal media shitting on me" for Watergate than normal.

[MOTRDemocrat]

10. Anytime a bomb goes off in a major American city, it is a huge event.

Fuck Bob Woodward.

[BeyondGeography]

15. No need to explain

[Kahuna]

17. Bob has decided..

[progressoid]

18. Who? Bob Woodward? Chris Matthews?

I don't listen to them.