Bill Murray quips Bob Woodward couldve framed Nixon for Watergate because of inaccurate book on John Belushi

Iconic comedian Bill Murray joked that famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward could have “framed” former President Richard Nixon because his book about John Belushi was “completely inaccurate.”Woodward, who shared a Pulitzer Prize with Carl Bernstein for the Washington Post’s coverage of the Watergate scandal that helped uncover details that resulted in Nixon’s resignation, also penned the 1986 book, “Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi,” which Murray does not approve of. “I read like five pages of ‘Wired,’ and I went, ‘Oh my God.

They framed Nixon,'” Murray said on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”Murray had a years-long friendship with Belushi, who was found dead of a drug overdose in 1982.Woodward’s book explored the comedian’s life and drug addiction years after his reporting helped push Nixon out of office.

 “If this is what he writes about my friend that I’ve known, you know, for half of my adult life, which is completely inaccurate, talking to like, the people of the outer, outer circle, getting the story – what the hell did that could they have done to Nixon? I just felt like if he did this to my friend like this, and I acknowledge I only read five pages, but the five pages I read made me want to set fire to the whole thing,” Murray said.“I went, ‘If he did this to Belushi, what he did in Nixon’s is probably soiled for me, too.’ I can’t, I can’t take it,” he continued.“And I know you say, well, ‘You could have two sources and everything like that,’ but the two sources that he had, if he had them for the ‘Wired’ book, were so far outside the inner circle that it was, it was criminal.”Fox News Digital has reached out to Woodward’s team for comment but has yet to receive a response.Nixon resigned from office on August 8, 1974.

He left the highest office in the land in the face of likely impeachment amid the Watergate scandal, which involved his administration’s cover-u...