Morning Joe: Bob Woodward on the Ginni Thomas story.

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Part 1: woodward on Ginni Thomas.

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/bob-woodward-does-jan-6-committee-want-to-subpoena-ginni-thomas-136213573934

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Part 2: Pushback on Woodward’s false equivalency.

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1. Woodward accused of 'false equivalency' after claiming that left has antii-democratic impulses

Woodward was wrong when he claimed that anti-democratic impulses are a problem among both the right and left. Morning Joe and Eugene Robinson called Woodward out on this bullshit.

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/bob-woodward-both-sides/

Bob Woodward on Friday suggested that authoritarian thinking was a problem among both the right and left in the United States -- but his Washington Post colleague Eugene Robinson and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough strongly disagreed.

Woodward was discussing the texts between right-wing activist Ginni Thomas and Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows. The Washington Post reporter and his co-author Robert Costa obtained the texts discussing plans to overturn Trump's election loss, but Woodward met fierce pushback when he argued that left-wing activists were engaged in similar efforts to gain political power.

"You're getting a skeptical look because, yes, there are extreme voices on the left, [but] I don't think this is an equal balance," Robinson said. "What you saw was the Republican Party writ large basically losing its mind but going, becoming a Trumpist party and adopting positions that establishment Republicans were horrified by, very conservative establishment Republicans were horrified by it. I don't see something equivalent happening on the left."

Woodward agreed that was a fair point, and he conceded that Thomas -- the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas -- and Meadows were hardly fringe figures, but he continued to insist that the left also harbored an anti-democratic impulse, which Scarborough then batted down.

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2. That was one of the reasons why I posted this.

There was chatter, but I hadn’t seen the video.

Thank you for linking to the second half of the discussion.