Woodward calls Pickles a liar

[CatWoman]

On Reliable Sources, Booby Woodward basically called Laura Bush a liar on what she revealed about Donald Rumsfeld's job performance. (the next Medal of Freedom winner?) Tony Snow and Cotton candy is pretty silly.

LAURA BUSH, FIRST LADY: Andy Card, also went on television and said that's not true. And let me just say the one thing about that book: Those quote of mine, were in quotes, and the author didn't call me and fact check. And it just didn't happen.

KURTZ: Your response?

WOODWARD: Well, first of all, Andy Card, as you know, has gone on television and said the quotes are accurate. And that they did happen. And the first lady is saying that what she said and — again, there is a way, and a habit they have in the White House of you write something and then they kind of pick it up one step, then they deny the version that they say you wrote.


Well, what I wrote in the book is that Laura Bush was concerned about Rumsfeld, and concerned that he might be hurting her husband. You only have to live in the United States of America to know that's a possibility. It's not surprising that she would have some concern.

I did not say and did not report in the book that she favored the ouster of Rumsfeld. The White House then takes that and says, the book says she favored the ouster of Rumsfeld. And then they deny that. It's — but, you know — Card is not…

KURTZ: That's something you say you didn't report.

WOODWARD: That's right. It's not an unusual technique. But Card repeatedly has said publicly that the quotes are accurate.

KURTZ: Critics of the president, as you know, said that in their view you were too soft on the administration in your previous two books and now you've finally come around. And you were in a state of denial about administration incompetence.

WOODWARD: Well, they haven't read the books, the first two books. The first book showed how Rumsfeld had no plan for the Afghan war. The second book, as I recall, "The New York Times" did two front page stories on "Plan of Attack," saying that the book jolted the White House because it exposed the rift between Colin Powell and Cheney and other things. Certainly the White House is not going to embrace something that necessarily jolts the White House.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/11/27/woodward-serves-laura-bush/

[spuddonna]

1. So does this make it Pickles first "non-denial denial"?

I guess Booby is off the WH Christmas party list!

[EFerrari]

2. Wow. I guess his check didn't clear.

:)

[Disturbed]

4. Laura Bush is not the nice person that she pretends

to be. She is phony and a liar, like her husband.

[EFerrari]

5. I know that if I ran over my boyfriend I wouldn't be a happy camper.

Nothing these people do is real.

[symbolman]

3. Oh Come ON Woodward

I walked into Borders DURING the Holidays not long ago, (two years?) and all I saw were BILLBOARDS (front facing, towards the door and windows SHELVES) PACKED with your book with the CHIMPORER'S Face on them.. all about WAR, WAR, WAR, and During Christmas..

I actually called the manager and told them I thought it was Inappropriate to show WAR all over the front of the place, even then it was going downhill, during the Holidays, they didn't have any Christmas BOOKS to slather all over in the Facing door/window?

Oh no, it was a CORPORATE Decision, and they had NO CHOICE..

Gee, just like the guards in Nazi Germany who ran people like cattle into the DEATH CAMPS, no, there's NEVER any choice...

Bullshit, this guy blows, and blows with the wind.. I suspect it was his co author that compiled the Nixon FACTS that brought him down, this guys is SLEAZY.

[EFerrari]

6. You know it.

This guy makes sleaze look respectable!