Day: March 17, 2006

But this guy has got to be the craziest.

This is good news.

ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff was released from Bethesda’s National Naval Medical Center yesterday, six weeks after he was seriously wounded during a roadside bombing while on assignment in Iraq. He will spend the next few weeks at a rehab center in New York before going home, ABC News President David Westin said in an e-mail to colleagues and reporters. He said Woodruff, 44, has been up and about, joking with his family and watching the news. But “we expect months of further recuperation,” Westin said.

It’s great that he’s recovering, but I don’t expect him to be an ABC News anchorman anymore. In the superficial world of on-air faces, if you’ve got a blemish, you’re out. I’m guessing that Woodruff will have a few lasting physical scars from this experience which will keep him out of anchorhood for good. That stinks for Bob, but it’s the career he’s in that is to blame.

ABC News has an investigative unit looking over the documents that were release by the US this week. There are interesting tidbits – bin Laden working with Saddam, French politicians on the receiving end of Saddam’s Xmas card (payroll) list.

It’s funny how ABC is suddenly interested in this stuff. That’s not typical of them or any other MSM outlet. Although ABC isn’t afraid to include editorial notes like this one about al Qaeda cooperation with Iraq:

(Editor’s Note: The controversial claim that Osama bin Laden was cooperating with Saddam Hussein is an ongoing matter of intense debate. While the assertions contained in this document clearly support the claim, the sourcing is questionable — i.e. an unnamed Afghan “informant” reporting on a conversation with another Afghan “consul.” The date of the document — four days after 9/11 — is worth noting but without further corroboration, this document is of limited evidentiary value.)

It’s interesting how “limited evidentiary value” is important in this context, when ABC and their MSM brothers and sisters go on a lot less when they’re slamming Bush for eavesdropping, etc.