Woodward

Count me in the group that used to really admire Bob Woodward. Then he became a partisan hack. Or, maybe he always a Republican operative once he saw that he'd never duplicate the career-boost of Watergate. In either case, Will Bunch says it better than I could ever say it:

I've never been very trendy, but there was one time in my life when I did find myself swept up by a trend, a big one. And so today I come here to confess: I am a charter member of that '70s show, a generation of starry-eyed idealists who became newspaper reporters all because of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

I hate when icons of my youth turn out to not be merely human, but sub-human pieces of crap.