I just saw this quoted by Atrios. And whatever you think of the merits of the comment or the two players involved it’s a stunning remark, coming as it does from within the highest echelon of the beltway journalistic establishment.
From the Daily Record …
Howard Fineman, Newsweek’s chief political correspondent, said Monday night in the first program of a Drew University lecture series, that Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward had become a “court stenographer” for the Bush administration.
Standing before a crowd of nearly 300, Fineman, said Woodward went from being an outsider “burning the beltway”with his investigative work in the 1970s Watergate scandal under President Nixon to being, ” an official court stenographer of the Bush administration.”
“He’s a great reporter,”Fineman said of Woodward, “but he’s become a great reporter of official history.”
They must have changed something in the water down there.
