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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Military / Late Night Open Thread: Troutmouth Bob Woodward Does It Again

Late Night Open Thread: Troutmouth Bob Woodward Does It Again

by Anne Laurie|  September 16, 20211:16 am| 28 Comments

This post is in: Military, Open Threads, Trump Crime Cartel

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Well how do you think *I* feel about it, Zuocheng?!??? https://t.co/JxnVAFMLiP

— Mike Black (@MikeBlack114) September 14, 2021

I know I’ve said this before, but: Nothing Woodward does has ever contradicted the long-standing argument that he’s been an asset of the ‘alphabet agencies’ since his OSS days.

And it’s been very, very profitable for him — even though not for the good of the country.

I hope to Murphy the Trickster God that the Biden admin’s distrust of mudlarking media members extends to keeping this ancient boneless ghoul well away from their deliberations !

It has become an annual tradition for Woodward to hold onto relevant information until the only people paying attention are gossip-obsessed Beltway hyperposters.

Meanwhile all our relatives get waterboarded with insane fringe propaganda that is both instant and free.

— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 14, 2021

Nobody’s credibility survives the dead-eyed Trump supports and right wing media. 600,000 COVID deaths & country’s top infectious disease expert is being called a traitor and worse. Milley would’ve been cast as a “pro-China woke lib” and all of his warnings dismissed.

— Rita Konaev (@RitaKonaev) September 15, 2021

Biden comes to Milley’s defense after revelation top general, fearing Trump, conferred with China to avert warhttps://t.co/hMukqqUSNV

— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) September 16, 2021

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28Comments

  1. 1.

    HumboldtBlue

    September 16, 2021 at 1:30 am

    Well, if nothing else, this is a joyous dance number we can all groove to.

    Come on, everybody!

    Let’s do the Milley dance!

  2. 2.

    Splitting Image

    September 16, 2021 at 1:30 am

    Dr. Strangelove is a great movie. Its only flaw is that the prevailing sense of optimism has been shown to be unwarranted.

  3. 3.

    eddie blake

    September 16, 2021 at 1:31 am

    it’s very quiet…

    “…pinch hitting…for pedro borbon…manny (manny) mota… (mota…) (mota…)”

    eta- AH. other peoples.

  4. 4.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    September 16, 2021 at 1:43 am

    Troutmouth Bob Woodward Does It Again

    You left out his co-author and partner in pseudo-journalism, Robert Babyface Costa

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    September 16, 2021 at 2:27 am

    Troutmouth

    Oh jeeze. Can we knock off the immature schoolyard slurs? Particularly any ostensibly aimed at physical attributes?

    “Tain’t funny, McGee.”
     - Molly

  6. 6.

    Anne Laurie

    September 16, 2021 at 2:30 am

    @NotMax: In all seriousness:  Fuck you, Cliff Clavin.

  7. 7.

    Mary G

    September 16, 2021 at 2:39 am

    If earth was indeed "flat" wouldn't cats have pushed every thing off by now?? pic.twitter.com/mazF7iMBaA— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) September 15, 2021

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    September 16, 2021 at 2:45 am

    @Mary G: ​
     I have a tshirt that basically says this.

    On the subject of outrage of Milley, hey, isn’t he one of TFG’s generals? Obama didn’t put him in place. Well, OK, he was a general of some sort during the Obama administration, but then again, if he’s served for 40 years then he was commissioned during the Reagan Administration, which makes him the Gipper’s fault.

  9. 9.

    scribbler

    September 16, 2021 at 2:49 am

    @Anne Laurie:  I ❤️ you Anne Laurie.

  10. 10.

    artem1s

    September 16, 2021 at 2:55 am

    Love it when the GQP Rightwing Powertools show the world exactly what weak toady characters they have. It’s really got to chap Milley’s ass that he needs Sleepy Joe Biden to excuse his cowardice in the face of TFG mean tweeting about him to the MSM.  Really hard to feel sorry for anyone who fooled themselves into believing they could work for that Orange Shitstain and come out of it with their soul and integrity intact.

  11. 11.

    quakerinabasement

    September 16, 2021 at 3:24 am

    “Troutmouth.”

    Haw!

  12. 12.

    Yutsano

    September 16, 2021 at 4:29 am

    Since the thread be open, I have happy news. Minna might be going home tomorrow.

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    September 16, 2021 at 4:45 am

    @Yutsano:

    Oh that’s awesome.

    I’m so over all of the people who had a duty to warn and kept it quiet so they could make money selling their books.

  14. 14.

    Balconesfault

    September 16, 2021 at 4:58 am

    • @artem1s: I’m sure that after decades of military duty Milley believed he was serving the country, and not working for Trump, when he accepted the job.
  15. 15.

    satby

    September 16, 2021 at 5:15 am

    @Yutsano: That’s amazing news! So glad to hear it. Send her my (all our) best wishes for her continuing recovery.

  16. 16.

    topclimber

    September 16, 2021 at 5:17 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: Since you are here, I will pass along a comment from Adam’s Pre-Yom Kippur piece:

    Our media needs a Day of Atonement. Followed by 1,000 more.

  17. 17.

    satby

    September 16, 2021 at 5:17 am

    @Anne Laurie: John been sharing his crabby pills?

  18. 18.

    topclimber

    September 16, 2021 at 5:23 am

    @artem1s: Milley’s problems are compounded by his participation, wearing camo uniform, in Trump’s Bible-toting foray last summer. A lot of Democrats wanted his scalp for that one.

    I remember reading what seemed a credible source at the time that said Milley was at a function where the uniform was appropriate, then was summoned by Hair Fuhrer to the Church desecration. Didn’t have time to change uniform, so got played for hyping the MAGA meme of “Danger in the Streets!”

  19. 19.

    Yutsano

    September 16, 2021 at 5:33 am

    @MomSense: @satby: I’ll re-send it in the morning. Right now sleep!

  20. 20.

    debbie

    September 16, 2021 at 7:02 am

    @MomSense:

    I would love to see the sales figures vs. printings. Every book has smelled like an instant remainder.

  21. 21.

    Brantl

    September 16, 2021 at 8:01 am

    @artem1s:  If you were career military, and you saw the sort of people Stump usually picked TO DO ANYTHING, if you were reasonably sane, wouldn’t you step into the gap, to keep these other wackaloons from filling it? I would. Not that I would ever be career military, mind you.

  22. 22.

    Betty

    September 16, 2021 at 8:18 am

    @topclimber: I have the impression that that incident woke him up to the kind of danger Trump posed which had to have increased after the election.

  23. 23.

    Leto

    September 16, 2021 at 9:07 am

    I know I’ve said this before, but: Nothing Woodward does has ever contradicted the long-standing argument that he’s been an asset of the ‘alphabet agencies’ since his OSS days.

    So you’re saying that he was an active member of the OSS from birth to the age of 2, when the OSS was dissolved? That’s quite a recruit. Can’t talk, can’t walk, can’t feed himself… they’ll never suspect a thing! So who exactly has been saying he was part of the OSS?

  24. 24.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    September 16, 2021 at 9:55 am

    @Leto: He may not show his age like some, but Bob Woodward is actually 134 years old.

  25. 25.

    Miss Bianca

    September 16, 2021 at 10:59 am

    @Yutsano: Whee!! Good news indeed!

  26. 26.

    matt

    September 16, 2021 at 11:41 am

    If I was Biden I’d figure out a way to promote him. Fuck these people.

  27. 27.

    Death Panel Truck

    September 16, 2021 at 12:14 pm

    @NotMax: ​

    “Tain’t funny, McGee.”- Molly

    “That ain’t the way I heered it!”–The Old Timer​

  28. 28.

    J R in WV

    September 16, 2021 at 1:49 pm

    @matt: 

    Pretty sure once you are the Chair of the Joint Chiefs you are currently topped out. 5-stars are designated by an act of Congress, IIRC. There haven’t been any of those since Doug MacArthur got fired.

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