swamp
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Post by swamp on Sept 14, 2018 9:06:38 GMT -5
It's by a highly regarded journalist/presidential biographer completely out of the trump sphere who has no dog in the race. Is he selling books for money?? Is he doing the circuit to promote books sales? In which He hope will generate more book sales for more Money?? yes, so? Doesn't everyone who goes on book tours hope to make money from them? Or do they do it out of the goodness of their heart. Woodward is a presidential biographer. This is what he does.
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Post by OldCoyote on Sept 14, 2018 9:11:20 GMT -5
Yea,, I am sure money is not a motivation. Every thing publishes is truth? Maybe I will read the book, see if it changes my mind.
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Sept 14, 2018 9:49:03 GMT -5
Yea,, I am sure money is not a motivation. Every thing publishes is truth? Maybe I will read the book, see if it changes my mind.
He is highly respected and very credible. I’d believe him over the serial liar.
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 14, 2018 9:56:53 GMT -5
Yea,, I am sure money is not a motivation. Every thing publishes is truth? Maybe I will read the book, see if it changes my mind.
Why would anyone ever publish a book if they didn't hope to make a profit from it? It's his job, it's what he does to earn a living. He's written many books before about presidents that didn't sell nearly as well as this one, but it's not his fault that Trump is such a controversial, unpopular president.
He won Pulitzers for his work on Watergate and also on 9/11 - they don't give Pulitzers to hack writers who make up stories. He's not a gossip writer like Wolfe who loads his books with any outrageous bit of gossip he can find, and he's not someone like Omarosa with an axe to grind.
I'd like it if you read the book because I'd be interested in your opinion about it.
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Post by swamp on Sept 14, 2018 10:23:55 GMT -5
I'm just gobsmacked that we have a few older posters here who have no idea who Bob Woodward is. They lived through Watergate. I would think that an event like that would make an impression on you.
I still can picture Walter Cronkite talking about the Iran Hostage situation in 1979 when I was 9.
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 17, 2018 12:10:53 GMT -5
Yea,, I am sure money is not a motivation. i would be well pleased if you expressed the same cynicism about your titular leader.
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