Woodward (Of Watergate Fame) Warns Of “Smug” Media

“You have to have a presumption of goodwill.”

“I think there’s so many people treating the Trump presidency as if it’s a try-out, as if it’s provisional… odds are, he’s probably going to be president for a full term, four years, maybe even more… there’s hyperventilation, too many people writing things. When’s the impeachment coming, how long’s he gonna last, will he make it through the summer, and so forth…

“I worry, I worry for the business, for the perception of the business, not just Trump supporters, they see that smugness… I think you can ride both horses, intensive inquiry, investigation, not letting up… at the same time, realize that it’s not our job to do an editorial on this.”

Woodward is absolutely right about this. The press should have an adversarial relationship with the White House, set firmly upon a presumption – or at least a pretense – of goodwill. That ship sailed during 8 years of tongue-slathering Obama’s ass crack. They might have relieved some of the distrust, if they’d pretended to give the new president a chance, but instead, they went full-on, tinfoil hat, conspiracy-mongering hate-filled, out-or-presidential-blood hysterical.

The level of irrationality in the media these days, prevents them from repairing the damage they did by giving Obama his affirmative action pass.