re: #176 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

No, this isn’t really true. He’s famous for Watergate, and he’s written a lot of books, but he’s not really considered a great journalist. His style has come into a lot of criticism— a lot of reporters feel he gets co-opted very easily, as he did with Bush.

He’s not a liberal icon. He’s one of the reporters that followed the story, but he didn’t do it because of liberal principles, but because he was a reporter. He’d be a weird choice of icon.

I don’t know about that. From Wiki:

He has been a recipient of nearly every other major American journalism award, including the Heywood Broun award (1972), Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting (1972 and 1986), Sigma Delta Chi Award (1973), George Polk Award (1972), William Allen White Medal (2000), and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on the Presidency (2002). In 2012, Colby College presented Woodward with the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism as well as an honorary doctorate.[8]

Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard called Woodward “the best pure reporter of his generation, perhaps ever.”[9] In 2003, Albert Hunt of The Wall Street Journal called Woodward “the most celebrated journalist of our age.” In 2004, Bob Schieffer of CBS News said, “Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time. He may be the best reporter of all time.”[10]c

I bet any reporter would love to have half of the career he’s had.