WP blurbs about the Woodward and Wilson books

[swag]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59479-2004Apr7.html

from "Cranking Up The Volumes On George Bush"

By Tina Brown
Thursday, April 8, 2004; Page C01

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Reporters were stonewalled for so long by the White House and spun so skillfully by Hughes that a tsunami of pent-up journalistic energy built up, and now it's breaking at just the wrong time for the Bush reelection plans.

"It's harder for the White House to manage the author's process than it is the reporter's process," Ron Suskind, author of the O'Neill bestseller "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill," told me. "You go off their radar for months and they don't know where you are going with your leads."

In this atmosphere of anticipation followed by revelation, the media classes are salivating at the prospect of investigative journalist Bob Woodward's latest tome, "Plan of Attack." Talk show producers I speak to are on steroids waiting for Woodward. They have always just heard from a D.C. insider who had lunch last week with a friend who ran into Woodward at the pharmacy/ grocery store/Blockbuster and reported breathlessly that "he didn't want to say anything but I hear it's going to blow the lid off all the stuff about why we really went into Iraq/who's really making the decisions/what Powell really believes/what the real hold is that Cheney has over Bush/what Condi will never say to the 9/11 commission."

Woodward will be followed by another smart mouthful, "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity," from former ambassador Joe Wilson, who, TV bookers hopefully insist, will identify the leaker of the name of his spouse, Valerie Plame.

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[reprehensor]

1. Fire at will!

If enough pens are left in the hands of enough journalists with enough information, will 'W' have a leg left to stand on?

I don't theenk so.

[Katherine2]

3. I read the Kevin Phillips

book about the Bush Dynasty, now I'm reading Worse than Watergate, and when I'm finished with that I'm gonna read Paul O'Neill's book while I wait for Woodward's and Joe Wilson's books, which I have on order with Amazon. A) I need to get a life; and B) I think Bush losing this election is not good enough. He should and his cronies should be punished somehow. Maybe we can make them go live in Baghdad.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. The Wilson book could destroy the PNAC-Junta!