Bob Woodward Blasts MSM: "Fair-Mindedness Is Essential If You Want People To Trust You"

After being tripped up by a series of embarrassing events this week, including a "fake news" story which resulted in the "resignation" of three CNN "journalists" and two undercover videos from Project Veritas which reveal CNN insiders describing their own network"s "Russian collusion" narrative as "mostly bullshit" and "a big nothing burger", the mainstream media has resorted to doing what liberals do best when they get caught...they"re playing the victim card. 

In case you haven"t been made aware, "progressives" have never, ever been wrong...and if you disagree then you"re just a racist, misogynist hate-monger and you need to seek professional help.

In fact, here is a clip from CNN that we shared just yesterday in which grandstanding anchors, after recklessly pushing the fake "Russian collusion" narrative for months, casually admitted "We can debate collusion. They"re right, there"s no evidence of that..." and then moments later pre-emptively blamed Trump for any and all future attacks on reporters: "We are going to see a reporter face physical harm because" of President Trump"s "declaration of war on the media."

Which is ironic, because CNN"s "mostly bullshit" Russian collusion stories, and similar tactics by other networks, are likely what caused an unhinged liberal to open fire on a Republican baseball practice a few weeks ago, nearly killing Majority Whip Steve Scalise.

But famed investigative journalist Bob Woodward, the reporter who broke the Nixon Watergate scandal, isn"t buying the MSM"s "we"re just innocent little reporters trying to do our jobs" shtick.  Instead, in remarks following a screening of “All The President’s Men” in Washington, D.C., Woodward blasted the media"s open bias toward President Trump and warned that they"re losing all credibility with the public.  Per the Daily Caller:

He pointed to a list of Trump’s “lies” compiled by The New York Times in which some of the president’s are misjudged as an example of overt bias, after he was asked about the media’s treatment of Trump in a Q&A session at Landmark E Street Cinema.

“[Number three on the list] was that Trump said he was on the cover of Time magazine 14 or 15 times when it was in fact 11 times,” Woodward said. “… That’s not a lie.” He likened Trump’s statement instead to someone getting pulled over for speeding and telling the police officer that they were driving the speed limit.

“Tone matters, and headlines matter, and you want people to [trust you],” he said.

“[It] really betrays the anti-Trump media bias,” Woodward added, regarding the media’s coverage of the investigation into Russian meddling in the election. “I think a kind of brief, deeply fair-mindedness is essential, but as essential or maybe more essential is a game plan for reporting this and going to Moscow and finding the bookkeeper.”

Woodward"s New York Times example came from an article entitled "Trump"s Lies" which included the following two "lies" at the very top of the list:

JAN. 21 “I wasn"t a fan of Iraq. I didn"t want to go into Iraq.” (He was for an invasion before he was against it.)

JAN. 21 “A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine.” (Trump was on the cover 11 times and Nixon appeared 55 times.)

Of course, in light of Trump"s most recent tweetstorm targeting MSNBC"s Mika Brzezinski, who was apparently "bleeding badly from a face-lift" when she visited his Mar-a-Lago hotel back in December, we suspect things are only gong to get worse from here.

Watergate's Bernstein Warns Trump White House "Potentially More Dangerous" Than Nixon's

Infamous Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, having criticized both Comey and Clinton in recent months, is now taking aim at President Trump. In a Sunday interview on CNN, Bernstein said current White House conditions could be more dangerous than the Watergate scandal.

As The Hill reports, Bernstein referred to President Trump"s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey last week. Comey was leading the FBI"s investigation into the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, including allegations that Trump"s campaign colluded with Moscow.

"I think this is a potentially more dangerous situation than Watergate and we"re at a very dangerous moment,"

"Because we are looking at the possibility that the president of the United States and those around him, during an election campaign, colluded with a hostile foreign power to undermine the basis of our democracy: free elections," Bernstein continued.

Bernstein said the country does not yet know the facts.

"But what we do know is, is that the president of the United States seems to be doing everything in his power to keep us from knowing the facts," he said.

"Including firing the director of the FBI because, says the president of the United States, of "this Russia thing." So the question of a cover-up seems to me to have been answered a while ago."

Bernstein said there is a cover-up going on to keep the public from knowing what happened.

"Whether that means the president of the United States obstructed justice or not, or those around him did, we don"t know," he said.

"But what we see is that at every turn, this president is impeding the ability of those who were chosen to investigate to do so...It"s a truly dangerous moment. It"s very different than Watergate."

Trump sparked controversy last week when he fired the FBI director. Bernstein is the latest to question the timing of the firing and raise comparisons between the current situation and the Watergate scandal. During an interview last week, Trump said: “When I decided to just do it, I said to myself — I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story."

Ironically, Bernstein"s partner, reporter Bob Woodward, had some uncomfortable words for the mainstream media"s safe-space-seekers earlier in the year. Following a tempestuous few days as the media and the White House toss propaganda grenades at one another, on Friday"s broadcast of MSNBC"s "Hardball" show, the Washington Post Associate Editor stated that:

the press “shouldn’t whine, and if we sound like we are an interest group only concerned with ourselves, it doesn’t work with the public. At the same time, we need to continue the in-depth inquiries, the investigations.”

Still when did the opinion of the average American joe matter when there"s a narrative to peddle?

Why the Fed Hasn’t Been Audited Even Though Most Americans Want it to Happen

(RPI) Audit the Fed recently took a step closer to becoming law, when it was favorably reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. This means the House could vote on the bill at any time. The bill passed by voice vote without any objections, although Fed defenders did launch hysterical attacks on the bill during the debate as well as at a hearing on the bill the previous week.

One representative claimed that auditing the Fed would result in rising interest rates, a stock market crash, a decline in the dollar’s value, and a complete loss of confidence in the US economy. Those who understand economics know that all of this is actually what awaits America unless we change our monetary policy. Passing the audit bill is the vital first step in that process, since an audit can provide Congress a road map to changing the fiat currency system.

Another charge leveled by the Fed’s defenders is that subjecting the Fed to an audit would make the Fed subject to political pressure. There are two problems with this argument. First, nothing in the audit bill gives Congress or the president any new authority to interfere in the Federal Reserve’s operations. Second, and most importantly, the Federal Reserve has a long history of giving in to presidential pressure for an “accommodative” monetary policy.

The most notorious example of Fed chairmen tailoring monetary policy to fit the demands of a president is Nixon-era Federal Reserve Chair Arthur Burns. Burns and Nixon may be an extreme example — after all no other president was caught on tape joking with the Fed chair about Fed independence, but every president has tried to influence the Fed with varying degrees of success. For instance, Lyndon Johnson summoned the Fed chair to the White House to berate him for not tailoring monetary policy to support Johnson’s guns and butter policies.

Federal Reserve chairmen have also used their power to shape presidential economic policy. According to Maestro, Bob Woodward’s biography of Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton once told Al Gore that Greenspan was a “man we can deal with,” while Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen claimed the Clinton administration and Greenspan’s Fed had a “gentleman’s agreement” regarding the Fed’s support for the administration’s economic policies.

The Federal Reserve has also worked to influence the legislative branch. In the 1970s, the Fed organized a campaign by major banks and financial institutions to defeat a prior audit bill. The banks and other institutions who worked to keep the Fed’s operations a secret are not only under the Fed’s regulatory jurisdiction, but are some of the major beneficiaries of the current monetary system.

There can be no doubt that, as the audit bill advances through the legislative process, the Fed and its allies will ramp up both public and behind-the-scenes efforts to kill the bill. Can anyone dismiss the possibility that Janet Yellen will attempt to “persuade” Donald Trump to drop his support for Audit the Fed in exchange for an “accommodative” monetary policy that supports the administration’s proposed spending on overseas militarism and domestic infrastructure?

While auditing the Fed is supported by the vast majority of Americans, it is opposed by powerful members of the financial elite and the deep state. Therefore, those of us seeking to change our national monetary policy must redouble our efforts to force Congress to put America on a path to liberty, peace, and prosperity by auditing, then ending, the Fed.

By Ron Paul / Republished with permission / RPI / Report a typo

Colonel Shaffer: "I Believe This is Much Worse Than Watergate"

The noose is tightening Obamafags. While you occupy yourselves by injecting heroin into your scrawny arms at one of your Antifa meetups, AG Sessions is preparing the groundwork to end the legacy of King Obama -- sending him barreling towards a scandal far greater than anything Nixon ever did -- crushing and poleaxing any hopes of rejuvenating the broken status of the democratic party.

Here"s Tony Shaffer, former senior intelligence officer at the CIA, saying that the wiretapping scandal against Trump is "orders of magnitude" worse than Watergate -- alluding to Bob Woodward"s comments made earlier this week describing the offenses as being "felony level" crimes that might wreak havoc throughout the former Obama administration.

"This incidental, it"s accidental on purpose."

The unmasking of Trump and his cohorts means they specifically targeted him and his team. The political appointees at the CIA, aka black hats, aren"t laughing anymore.

Meanwhile, continue to bask in your Obamacare victory. I"m certain the people will appreciate it going forward -- as it cascades and cracks asunder amidst financial failure in the near term.

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Watergate's Bob Woodward: "Press Shouldn't Whine About Trump, It Doesn't Work With The Public"

Infamous Watergate reporter Bob Woodward had some uncomfortable words for the mainstream media"s safe-space-seekers. Following a tempestuous few days as the media and the White House toss propaganda grenades at one another, on Friday"s broadcast of MSNBC"s "Hardball" show, the Washington Post Associate Editor stated that:

the press “shouldn’t whine, and if we sound like we are an interest group only concerned with ourselves, it doesn’t work with the public. At the same time, we need to continue the in-depth inquiries, the investigations.”

Woodward begins at 6:45:

Woodward added that it’s not in the interest of either the Trump White House or the media to war with each other.

"I think everyone has accelerated this work. The other question to ask, is there any justification for Trump and people like — in his White House responding this way? And the only justification I can think of, which really isn’t a justification, but it accounts for emotional spasm of, my God, this is enemy of the people, I know that reporters have talked to people in the Trump house, — Trump White House about very sensitive intelligence operations, that we find out about in the press. And I think Trump is horrified that this is out there. And these are not necessarily things that are going to be published, but Trump is a newcomer saying, my God how do reporters know about these things? And so it’s — we’ve got to stop it.”

“[I]t’s not in our interest, the media’s interest to have a war with the Trump White House. It’s not in Trump’s interest to have this war.”

Sadly, it appears it"s too late to get this toothpaste back in the tube (for both sides).