No it’s not. To get an idea of Woodward’s and his type’s methods, read George Stephanopolous’ bio. He admits that he got talked into revealing a lot of insider stuff, mainly by saying others had said such and such and would George like to confirm, and then George gives his side of things and before you know it, Woodward’s managed to piece together a pretty good picture of things based on several accounts of people in on whatever meeting he was trying to get info on, as well as a lot of confirmed quotes. Halperin and Elizabeth Drew have used the same methods. They work, and while I wouldn’t consider every single detail to be 100% reliable, it’s wrong to say they aren’t well sourced. It’s just that they aren’t going to tell us who squealed.
Since there’s no “link”–why don’t you show us exactly what Heileman & Helperin wrote? Then we can judge for ourselves.
Get out your book & type in a few of the relevant paragraphs. The Dope allows brief quotations. If you’ve got the Kindle version of the book, you can cut & paste!
Aside from being in Game Change, there are other sources of Sid Blumenthal pitching the birther story to the media:
Rachel Stoltzfoos at the Daily Caller? The same source is quoted in Breitbart…
What happened to your copy of that book? You made it sound really interesting.
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm, some faint suggestion that we do not hold the Daily Caller in the highest esteem? Have a care!
Of course, if it is skepticism that anyone with a name like “Rachel Stoltzfoos” actually exists…
They’re out there, just not in the phone books…the Amish don’t have telephones.
Maybe she moonlights for “Card Services”.
Not *all *Amish are named Stoltzfus, btw. They have a bunch of Yoders, too.
Oh god, she calls me ALL the time!
Halperin is an incredible hack, not a good journalist. Not even close.
The Game Change books got excellent reviews, including from many politically-savvy reviewers, and deservedly so, I’d say.
Are any of you worried that Hillary could only get 250 people to show up at her rally at Temple University? Even when they live stream her press conferences she only gets a fraction of what Trump gets. If you aren’t worried, why not? Do you believe there is little relationship between crowd attendance and votes cast?
No, I don’t believe there is much of a relationship between crowd attendance and votes cast. All the crowd figures tell you is that people like to watch a spectacle, and that Trump is more entertaining than Clinton. Of course, the way he entertains the crowd at his rallies is by spewing outrageous statements, which serves to convince other voters to NOT support him.
Regardless, the vast majority of voters will never attend a rally for either candidate.
Yes.
Ron Paul never got close to a nomination. Bernie fared a bit better, but still fell way short. The number of people at a rally is a minuscule percentage of the electorate.
Trump lies about ISIS fighters returning to the US.
I’m not comfortable with a presidential candidate doing the work of ISIS for them by spreading fear based on lies. There is a reason that ISIS wants Trump to win; He’s on their side of promoting a holy war.
Trump serves ISIS; ISIS serves Trump.
Ahem.
A number of admiring remarks by students in attendance, and one very disparaging remark.
By the by, did you notice the location, a hall at Temple University? Did it occur to you that a university hall seldom holds the human volume of a stadium? Now, I don’t know that the limit of attendance in this hall was 250, but I’ll bet you don’t either. Double down on didn’t even think to ask.
I wasn’t aware. Cite?
Even a good number of evangelicals are aware of that: