NO LIBERAL HERO
Lee Camp: Woodward Accidentally Reveals He's No Different Than "Super
Villain" Julian Assange
The next time you see a mainstream-media talking-head fawn over Woodward,
just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they would be
fawning over Assange instead.
by Lee Camp
September 25th, 2020
By Lee Camp
The completely fair super awesome trial of Julian Assange continues in the
U.K. as I write this. It's a beautiful blend of the works of Kafka, Stalin
and Joseph Heller.
Seeing as Julian is kept in a glass container in the courtroom, like a
captured cockroach, maybe Kafka wins the day.
The court clearly must keep Julian in that giant Tic-Tac container because
he's undoubtedly as dangerous as Hannibal Lecter. If he weren't in there, no
one would know when he might lurch forward and PUBLISH SOMETHING THAT'S
TOTALLY TRUE!
What they're deciding in this trial is whether Assange should be extradited
to the United States, or "kidnapped" as the kids call it these days.
If he is lovingly black-bagged by our government, they have promised he will
face 175 years in prison if convicted by another super rad show trial
presided over by an American government puppet judge. (A puppet judge is
just like a real judge but they've got the government so far up their
backside they can taste the Cheetos.)
Countless excitable activists out there say this persecution of Julian
Assange is unheard of. They're acting like no journalist has ever been
prosecuted under the Espionage Act. They're acting like it's unprecedented
for the U.S. to go after a journalist who's not even a U.S. citizen and has
never operated his organization from the U.S. They're acting like it's
ridiculous to add on new superseding indictments days before the trial
begins.
But all the people saying that are. um. correct. Yeah, they nailed it.
(Sorry for the buildup - I thought that paragraph would come out
differently.)
Two journalists
Right now, one journalist, Julian Assange, is on trial while being held in a
maximum-security prison in London. Another journalist, Bob Woodward, is in a
very different situation. The liberal Establishment is preparing to chisel
his likeness out of a small boulder and display it next to the Lincoln
Memorial. They love him because he got President Donald Trump to do
interviews wherein Trump, as always, sounds like a lying buffoon. Among
other things the president admits he knew Covid-19 was "deadly stuff" back
in at least February, but played it down anyway.
But this is nothing new. Every time Bob Woodward puts out a book, the
mainstream media fan-girls all over him. Myriad kings and queens of
televised logorrhea describe him as a "veteran reporter," a "famed
reporter," or "synonymous with investigative journalism!"
So what's the difference between liberal-hero journalist Bob Woodward and
dastardly evil villain cannibal-pedophile Julian Assange (who Hillary
Clinton famously said we should drone bomb)?
Well, Julian is on trial for obtaining and disclosing classified information
from the U.S. government. Liberal superhero Bob Woodward would never do such
a thing like that! .Oh, that's right. He actually said in his own online
journalism class - "I have rarely found a significant story where there
isn't a document. .Often you can't get it because it's classified but. it's
there, and if you can get somebody to assist you, it will indeed help you
with your story. .The hardest documents [to get] are intelligence documents.
.And I've had them and printed them."
Hmm, so the icon of investigative journalism actually brags about printing
classified information. Well, maybe the difference between Assange
(currently being fed to the lions) and Woodward (currently being lionized)
is that Assange supposedly pressured people into giving him classified
information whereas Woodward would never do that. For Bob the information
just arrives at his door unsolicited.
.Oh, wait a second. On video Woodward recently said, "Documents rarely just
arrive in the mail out of the blue. .You have to go to human beings and say,
'Will you give it to me?' You say, 'Come on, let's talk. Let's, uh, not be
chickenshit about this.'"
Soooo, the guy that has the entire mainstream media licking his shoes has
been involved in obtaining and publishing classified information, and in
fact pressuring sources into supplying him those documents? Wow. Bob
Woodward and Julian Assange are exactly the same except Assange has actually
not been proven to have pressured sources into giving him documents.
And there's one other difference between the Almighty Bob Woodward and the
so-called servant of Lucifer, Julian Assange.
Nothing WikiLeaks has ever published has been proven false. Not one
sentence. Whereas, the outlets Woodward works with like The Washington Post
and The New York Times publish false information all the time.
They said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; they said Kim
Jung-Un killed his girlfriend while she was still alive; they published 16
anti-Bernie Sanders stories in the span of 16 hours while trying to sink his
candidacy. They said China imprisoned millions of Uighurs based on
extrapolating from the accounts of EIGHT PEOPLE! They are utter garbage when
compared to the unassailable record of WikiLeaks. But when needed, legacy
media like The Washington Post and The New York Times bend over for the
national security state. That's the real difference.
Julian Assange actually stood up to the U.S. and U.K. empires by publishing
their war crimes. Woodward hasn't really done that since President Richard
Nixon was in office. Most big-time American journalists back down to the
State Department when push comes to shove. Those who don't - like Seymour
Hersh, Robert Scheer, Chris Hedges, and a few others - are never allowed in
the pages of the mainstream media again.
The next time you see a mainstream media talking-head fawn over Bob
Woodward, just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they
would be fawning over Julian Assange instead.
