The next Woodstein has finally emerged and his name is Dan Reihl
If asked to name the most influential journalists of the 20th century, nearly everyone would place Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the top of the list. The two journalists, while working at the Washington Post, played significant roles in investigating Watergate. And partly because of their reporting, a US president resigned. They unraveled the Watergate scandal by using ingenious investigative reporting –obtaining damning documents and interviewing dozens of sources, including a person who until recently was widely known as Deep Throat.
Their brilliant reporting spawned lucrative careers for both of them, and in the shadow of Watergate they were given a nickname: Woodstein.
But even though Woodward and Bernstein are still writing today, many are wondering when there will be a new crop of journalists who are able to use innovation and ingenuity to unseat corrupt politicians and officials.
Who will be the next Woodstein?
Well I’m here to inform you that on Nov. 16, that question was finally answered: His name is Dan Riehl and he writes for a blog called Reihl World View.
Riehl has unearthed a corruption so dark that I have shivers going up my spine as I write this. Because of his brilliance and fearless investigating, the Hillary Clinton presidency will be destroyed before she ever takes office and a major news organization, CNN, will be toppled.
In a Democratic presidential debate held in Las Vegas on Nov. 15, a woman named LaShannon Spencer stood up and asked the candidates a question. “We constantly hear health care questions and questions pertaining to the war,” Spencer said. “But we don’t hear questions pertaining to the Supreme Court justice or education. (Applause.) My question is, if you are elected president, what qualities must the appointee possess?”
She then sat down while Sen. Chris Dodd answered her question. If it weren’t for the work of Riehl, people might have thought that Spencer was an undecided voter.
But using investigative tactics that have until now been unused by journalists, Riehl has managed to wade his way through the labyrinth known as Google (an obscure company located somewhere in California) and emerge with the fact that Spencer is in fact the former political director of the Democratic Party in Arkansas! Not only that — back in 2003 she praised a book that was written by Hillary Clinton!
Obviously, Spencer is a plant from both the Hillary Clinton campaign and CNN, who sneaked her into the debate disguised as an “undecided voter” so she could ask a strongly-partisan question.
After all, what are the chances that a Democrat would ask a question at a Democratic debate hosted by the Nevada Democratic Party, and sponsored by the Democratic National Committee?
Well, to answer that question, I interviewed a friend of mine who has a PhD in statistics, and after a half hour spent in rigorous calculation, he came back to me with this startling bit of information: The chances that a Democrat would be called on in such a Democratic debate hosted by a Democratic party and sponsored by the DNC is exactly 1 in 4,567,890 — if that’s not a damning figure, I don’t know what is.
Without engaging in hyperbole, I would argue that this level of deception makes Watergate pale in comparison. Not only has Reihl exposed a major presidential candidate, he has also caused what will inevitably be the downfall of CNN, one of the pillars of the mainstream media.
It has only been days since this corruption has been highlighted, and already the Hillary camp is in full damage control mode. Sources close to her campaign, who have asked me to grant them anonymity lest they be impaled by 6-foot steel spikes, have told me that she has gathered a team of no fewer than 50 operatives for an operation codenamed “Smear Riehl.”
I can only hope that he can withstand the onslaught.
