Poor Bob Woodward

The outrage! The indignity! Vice president Cheney, he complains, characterized some of Bob Woodward's material as "bull----" and hung up on him!

That's what he told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press." Everything you need to know about Bob Woodward, though, is what I mentioned here -- that's he's very good at reading the zeitgeist and making his work conform to the prevailing spirit of the time.