Bob Woodward as a hit man?

Chris Floyd sees Bob Woodward as a hit man for the establishment and the establishment thinks it's time to reign in King George and his dangerous and evil court.
War in Heaven: Woodward's Book and the Establishment Insurgency

Bob Woodward has long been the voice of the American Establishment – or of certain quadrants of it, at any rate. When Richard Nixon's criminal depredations and mental instability had gone too far and it was decided to rein him in, former military intelligence officer Woodward was there as a safe pair of hands to receive the damning revelations of "Deep Throat" and help bring down the Nixon presidency. When the Establishment decided it was best to throw in with the Bush Faction's aggressive militarism after 9/11 – lots of big money to be made out of war and fear, and those tax cuts were just too sweet to pass up – Woodward was there again, with a series of stories and books which, as Michiko Kakutani notes in the New York Times, "depicted the president – in terms that the White House press office itself has purveyed – as a judicious, resolute leader, blessed with the 'vision thing' his father was accused of lacking and firmly in control of the ship of state."

And now, when it is clear that George W. Bush is – to put it plainly – a self-deluding addlepate in the late Nixon mode (without any of Nixon's considerable intelligence, of course), and that the orgy of war profiteering and corporate welfare he has thrown for the elite has reached a level of such murderous frenzy that it threatens to kill the whole golden goose of American power – or at least seriously damage the bottom line for years to come – the Establishment has turned to Woodward once again. And the old trouper has delivered.

As I have mentioned here before I think that many in the Republican old guard now realize that the Bush regime represents a threat to life on earth and more importantly corporate profits. So who do they call, the man with a laptop in a violin case. Makes sense to me.


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