{"id":169404,"date":"2020-09-28T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=169404"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:51:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T08:51:20","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-villain-assange-and-intrepid-woodward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/09\/whats-the-difference-between-villain-assange-and-intrepid-woodward\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Difference between \u2018Villain\u2019 Assange and \u2018Intrepid\u2019 Woodward?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer hosting Bod Woodward in 2012. (Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

23 Sep 2020 –<\/em> The completely fair super awesome trial of Julian Assange continues in the U.K. as I write this. It\u2019s a beautiful blend of the works of Kafka, Stalin and Joseph Heller.<\/p>\n

Seeing as Julian is kept in a glass container in the courtroom, like a captured cockroach, maybe Kafka wins the day.<\/p>\n

The court clearly must keep Julian in that giant Tic-Tac container because he\u2019s undoubtedly as dangerous as Hannibal Lecter. If he weren\u2019t in there, no one would know when he might lurch forward and PUBLISH SOMETHING THAT\u2019S TOTALLY TRUE!<\/em><\/p>\n

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(Antonio Mar\u00edn Segovia, Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What they\u2019re deciding in this trial is whether Assange should be extradited to the United States, or \u201ckidnapped\u201d as the kids call it these days.<\/p>\n

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\u2019ve got the government so far up their backside they can taste the Cheetos.)<\/p>\n

Countless excitable activists out there say this persecution of Julian Assange is unheard of<\/em>. They\u2019re acting like no journalist has ever <\/em>been prosecuted under the Espionage Act<\/a>. They\u2019re acting like it\u2019s unprecedented for the U.S. to go after a journalist <\/a>who\u2019s not even a U.S. citizen and has never operated his organization from the U.S. They\u2019re acting like it\u2019s ridiculous to add on new superseding indictments<\/a> days before the trial begins.<\/p>\n

But all the people saying that are\u2026 um\u2026 correct. Yeah, they nailed it. (Sorry for the buildup \u2013 I thought that paragraph would come out differently.)<\/p>\n

Two Journalists <\/strong><\/p>\n

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 \u201cdeadly stuff<\/a>\u201d back in at least February, but played it down anyway.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cveteran reporter,\u201d a \u201cfamed reporter,\u201d or \u201csynonymous with investigative journalism!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.(Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So what\u2019s 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)?<\/p>\n

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! \u2026Oh, that\u2019s right. He actually said in his own online journalism class<\/a> \u2014 \u201cI have rarely found a significant story where there isn\u2019t a document. \u2026Often you can\u2019t get it because it\u2019s classified but\u2026 it\u2019s there, and if you can get somebody to assist you, it will indeed help you with your story. \u2026The hardest documents [to get] are intelligence documents. \u2026And I\u2019ve had them and printed them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u2026Oh, wait a second. On video Woodward recently said<\/a>, \u201cDocuments rarely just arrive in the mail out of the blue. \u2026You have to go to human beings and say, \u2018Will you give it to me?\u2019 You say, \u2018Come on, let\u2019s talk. Let\u2019s, uh, not be chickenshit about this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s one other difference between the Almighty Bob Woodward and the so-called servant of Lucifer, Julian Assange.<\/p>\n

Nothing WikiLeaks<\/em> has ever published has been proven false. Not one sentence. Whereas, the outlets Woodward works with like The Washington Post<\/em> and The New York Times<\/em> publish false information all the time.<\/p>\n