When did Bob Woodward become such a weenie?
Last night on CNN, Bob Woodward made national news when he complained that he had been threatened in an email exchange with an unnamed top White House official. According to the Watergate legend, the “very senior” official warned him that if he reported news about the sequestration in a way the White House did not like, “you will regret doing this.”
Put that way, it certainly sounds ominous. And just to drive the point home, Woodward repeated the claim in an interview with Politico:
“Woodward repeated the last sentence, making clear he saw it as a veiled threat. “ ‘You’ll regret.’ Come on,” he said. “I think if Obama himself saw the way they’re dealing with some of this, he would say, ‘Whoa, we don’t tell any reporter ‘you’re going to regret challenging us.’”
“They have to be willing to live in the world where they’re challenged,” Woodward continued in his calm, instantly recognizable voice. “I’ve tangled with lots of these people. But suppose there’s a young reporter who’s only had a couple of years — or 10 years’ — experience and the White House is sending him an email saying, ‘You’re going to regret this.’ You know, tremble, tremble. I don’t think it’s the way to operate.”
Again, that does sound potentially serious, particularly since this “threat” struck home with someone as experienced and presumably tough as Woodward.
As it turns out, however, the very senior official in question was Gene Sperling, who as head of the National Economic Council is not exactly in a position to order drones rained upon Woodward’s increasingly big head.
The e-mail exchange between Woodward and Sperling has also been released. Here is what Sperling wrote:
“I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today. My bad. I do understand your problems with a couple of our statements in the fall — but feel on the other hand that you focus on a few specific trees that gives a very wrong perception of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here.
But I do truly believe you should rethink your comment about saying that Potus asking for revenues is moving the goal post. I know you may not believe this, but as a friend, I think you will regret staking out that claim. The idea that the sequester was to force both sides to go back to try at a big or grand bargain with a mix of entitlements and revenues (even if there were serious disagreements on composition) was part of the DNA of the thing from the start. It was an accepted part of the understanding — from the start. Really.”
And here’s how Woodward responded after this supposed “threat”:
“Gene: You do not ever have to apologize to me. You get wound up because you are making your points and you believe them. This is all part of a serious discussion. I for one welcome a little heat; there should more given the importance. I also welcome your personal advice. I am listening. I know you lived all this. My partial advantage is that I talked extensively with all involved. I am traveling and will try to reach you after 3 pm today. Best, Bob
I’ve been in more than my share of those conversations, with everybody from county commissioners to U.S. senators. It’s ridiculous for Woodward to claim that he felt threatened or intimidated by it. In the first place, the context makes it clear that Sperling was warning Woodward that if he reported things that way, he would regret it because it would be factually incorrect. There was no other implication, and Woodward’s response makes no mention that he felt threatened in any way.
Even if you try real real real hard to imagine Sperling’s email as some threat, it in no way justifies Woodward’s collapse upon his fainting couch.
When Woodward and Carl Bernstein were breaking the Watergate story 40 years ago, Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, famously warned Bernstein that Washington Post owner “Katie Graham … is gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that’s published.”
THAT was a threat.
Indeed, Nixon plotted how to revoke federal licenses for TV stations owned by the Post as a way to get back at the newspaper.
“They should give some thought to taking on the guy that went into Cambodia and Laos, ran the Cambodian bombing campaign,” an angry Nixon was taped as telling an aide in the White House. “What do the hell they think they’re doing in there?” Later he abandoned that approach, telling the same aide that “We’re going to screw them another way.… They don’t really realize how rough I can play.… But when I start, I will kill them. There’s no question about it.”
Sad to say, Woodward’s grotesque exaggeration of his exchange with Sperling diminishes both his standing and credibility.
– Jay Bookman
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Redneck Convert (the missus' boy toy)
February 28th, 2013
1:42 pm
Well, it’s a shame when a journalist gets threatened and bullied for doing his job. I bet Woodward never had a lick of trouble when he was
sucking up toworking in the White House with the George W. Bush administration and writing book after book praising GWB.It’s a shame, is what it is. I bet the Obama thugs don’t even let him in the Oval Office.
Have a good p.m. everybody.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
February 28th, 2013
1:43 pm
GPS?
glue-paint sniffer?
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 28th, 2013
1:43 pm
Since Ron Paul left, there ain’t NOTHING BUT weenies in Washington.
.
The Weenie in Chief was so scared of a sixteen year old boy, he had him obliterated.
.
wimps
Morality?
February 28th, 2013
1:43 pm
Definition of a “weenie”? Anyone that does not bow down and kiss Obama’s scrawny.
Joe Hussein Mama
February 28th, 2013
1:45 pm
td — “All these progressives laws about racism, hate crimes and sexual harassment was written in a way as to go by how the receiver felt about the words or actions of another person.”
Really?
Show me.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 28th, 2013
1:45 pm
And if you voted for the Kenyen or the Romney………………YOU’RE a Weenie too.
.
Deathly afraind of Freedom.
Jay
February 28th, 2013
1:45 pm
td, I see that even you can’t try to pretend that Woodward was threatened, and instead try to divert attention elsewhere.
The best that even conservatives here can muster is “well, maybe he FELT threatened….”
TBS
February 28th, 2013
1:46 pm
“If you believe in these laws then you MUST believe that Woodword was threatened by the White House. ”
Leave it to the Rove and Morris groupie to tell others how “they must believe”
bwhahaahahahaha
Really?
Recon 0311 2533
February 28th, 2013
1:46 pm
Sad to say, Woodward’s grotesque exaggeration of his exchange with Sperling diminishes both his standing and credibility.
Small fry damage control for an administration that continually does and says dopey things. That’s a sacrifice of standing and credibility defending the indefensible.
hamiltonAZ
February 28th, 2013
1:46 pm
Dustin Hoffman was always a better Bob Woodward than Bob Woodward has ever been.
This is an example of a guy who writes books and was lucky enough to catch the President in a denial he later had to move away from. The rest is not really relevant. So what if the President’s folks dreamed up sequester. Congress agreed and it’s their baby now, too.
The moving the goalposts metaphor is attention grabbing only to those addicted to the 24 hour news cycle and people inside the beltway who believe they are all anyone thinks about.
Brosephus™ - She say you soul brother too beaucoup
February 28th, 2013
1:47 pm
Union
No problem. I grew up in a house full of nurses. The stories I heard growing up is what keeps me eating somewhat healthier than I would otherwise do.
Beavis
February 28th, 2013
1:47 pm
“Katie Graham … is gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that’s published.”
Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh
Regnad Kcin
February 28th, 2013
1:47 pm
I’ve been looking at the quote. Perhaps, if english was your second language, you could misinterpret what was said. Perhaps not.
I truly don’t think Mr. Woodward is stupid enough to actually have made that misinterpretation. I don’t think our con posters are, either.
Scooter
February 28th, 2013
1:47 pm
I totally agree with you Jay.
Reading the email exchange revealed something I think is important; “the sequester was to force both sides to go back to try at a big or grand bargain with a mix of entitlements and revenues was part of the DNA of the thing from the start.” It seems to only be about more and more revenues, as governments always do. Unfortunately, there is only one group demanding democrats true spending cuts and you ain’t part of it Jay.
Jay
February 28th, 2013
1:47 pm
Zell Miller once passed along word that he wanted to shoot me. I laughed and sent back a message wondering whether he would use the flintlock rifle that he trained with back at basic.
Litt
February 28th, 2013
1:48 pm
And now Lanny Davis, a former senior member of the Clinton administration, has said he was threatened as well.
Jay, have you no shame, at long last have you no shame. We know you’re a Democratic party shill, but don’t you ever tire of fellating the Obama administration?
TBS
February 28th, 2013
1:48 pm
“Since Ron Paul left, there ain’t NOTHING BUT weenies in Washington. – ”
Is that the same weenie who cried about the two parties, but never left The Republican party because he didn’t want to give up his seniority and choice committee assignments as well as the RNC fundraising that he benefited from? Is that the same one?
Thought so
Look before I leap...
February 28th, 2013
1:49 pm
“Dustin Hoffman was always a better Bob Woodward than Bob Woodward has ever been. –
Except that Dustin Hoffman played Carl Bernstein.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
February 28th, 2013
1:50 pm
SANDUSKY ONCE SAID HE LIKES WORKING WITH KIDS
ITS NOT THE WORDS
BUT WHO SAYS THEM
Regnad Kcin
February 28th, 2013
1:50 pm
“Not meant to be a factual statement.”
So td, please help. What part of the quote could Mr Woodward have construed as a threat?
Thanks in advance.
Mick
February 28th, 2013
1:50 pm
heathen
Hannity is a rather pathetic voice for the cons; 24/7 rumors, innuendo, false charges, that’s what he plys his trade on and becoming fabulously wealthy while doing it, more power to him but in the end he’s just a pompous, arrogant, clown who can’t get enough of himself. Our modern politics is akin to WWF, the jokes on us with ringleaders such as hannity…
Morality?
February 28th, 2013
1:51 pm
Our 1st “Reality Show Prez” thinks he is so much smarter than you that you should not be allowed an opinion differing from him…. show me a balanced budget plan Prez – at least have your handlers present a budget and YOU sign it for the 1st time in your administration. That is the LAW. Present and sign a budget. Obama and the Dems are the “weenies” for being so gutless when it comes to reducing the deficit. No backbone, no leadership, no morals – NO CLUE!
DannyX
February 28th, 2013
1:51 pm
“Zell Miller once passed along word that he wanted to shoot me.”
Was this before or after Zell challenged Chris Matthews to a duel?
Union
February 28th, 2013
1:51 pm
@ jay
zell miller seemed to have a thing about duels, didnt he?
http://youtu.be/AuBnlNjZq24
Grasshopper
February 28th, 2013
1:52 pm
Much ado about nothing…
But I do wonder what all the responses and headlines would be if it were a Bush official making these ‘threats.’
Complete pandemonium would be my guess.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 28th, 2013
1:53 pm
So Mick, does he work for CNN or Politico?
Brosephus™ - She say you soul brother too beaucoup
February 28th, 2013
1:53 pm
I laughed and sent back a message wondering whether he would use the flintlock rifle that he trained with back at basic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPX7qleLtzc#t=00m20s
————–
TBS @ 1:48
See above YouTube clip… Applies to you as well for that one.
moonbat betty
February 28th, 2013
1:54 pm
It doesn’t appear that Woodward was saying that HE felt threatened. He was saying a young, inexperience reporter MAY feel threatened…
It’s all the other talking heads trying to make a big deal about it.
His quote:
“I’ve tangled with lots of these people. But suppose there’s a young reporter who’s only had a couple of years — or 10 years’ — experience and the White House is sending him an email saying, ‘You’re going to regret this.’ You know, tremble, tremble. I don’t think it’s the way to operate.”
Non story.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
February 28th, 2013
1:55 pm
BOTH JAY AND CNN OVER STATE WHAT HE SAID
HE NEVER SAID HIS LIFE WAS THREATENED…….. HE SAID HE WAS THREATENED
THAT CAN IMPLY ANY RANGE OF ACTION
LIKE WHAT WE KNOW THE WHITE HOUSE IS CAPABLE OF
White House’s Fox News Boycott Attempt Prompts Network Revolt
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/white-houses-fox-news-boy_n_331437.html
Look before I leap...
February 28th, 2013
1:55 pm
“So td, please help. What part of the quote could Mr Woodward have construed as a threat? ”
Well it is very clear that Sperling threatened to take away Woodward’s trees and hide them in the forest and I think you assume that Sperling also threatened to pluck out one of Woodward’s eyes.
Mick
February 28th, 2013
1:55 pm
morality
I think you need a refresher course in civics 101 about budgets, appropriations & CONGRESS, not the executive…
Regnad Kcin
February 28th, 2013
1:55 pm
“at least have your handlers present a budget and YOU sign it for the 1st time in your administration. That is the LAW. Present and sign a budget.”
Morality, can you see Uncle Samantha from where you are? She’s in Bizarro World, too!
TBS
February 28th, 2013
1:55 pm
Bro
Thanks
Morality?
February 28th, 2013
1:55 pm
Jay it’s funny but when the descriptive word “weenie” comes to mind it reminds me of – well – YOU!
Mick
February 28th, 2013
1:56 pm
heathen
No, and your point is???
Regnad Kcin
February 28th, 2013
1:57 pm
Look/Leap – LOL!
Look before I leap...
February 28th, 2013
1:57 pm
“zell miller seemed to have a thing about duels, didnt he? -”
Zell was Aaron Burr’s dueling coach, wasn’t he?
Jay
February 28th, 2013
1:57 pm
Thanks, Morality.
Brosephus™ - She say you soul brother too beaucoup
February 28th, 2013
1:58 pm
at least have your handlers present a budget and YOU sign it for the 1st time in your administration. That is the LAW.
Seems that somebody DOES NOT know the law…
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/1105
There’s the law as it applies to Presidents and budgets. Learn something before you spout off and make yourself look like Lamont Sanford.
DannyX
February 28th, 2013
1:58 pm
“But I do wonder what all the responses and headlines would be if it were a Bush official making these ‘threats.’”
Bush had his own way of dealing with the press. He hired journalists to write nice things about him and his policies. He also invited fake news reporters like Guckert/Gannon to lob softball questions at him during press conferences. Of course he followed Republican tradition by also screaming “LIBERAL MEDIA” when bad things were written about him. (Yes, he did a lot of screaming.)
getalife
February 28th, 2013
1:58 pm
zell wanted to duel you too Jay?
Too funny
Jerry
February 28th, 2013
1:58 pm
Mick,
That third rate burglary brought down a President. Being as that had not occurred in the history of our country, seems kinda important to me.
Mick
February 28th, 2013
1:58 pm
Who’s afraid of the big, bad, obama white house? Apparently only reporters but the rest of the world? Not so much..
Morality?
February 28th, 2013
2:00 pm
JAY – “WEENIE” for Obama. Why don’t you stand up to Obama instead of bowing down to him? Surely you don’t think he is perfect? Never heard you say one critical word against our 1st Reality Show Pres. When does someone become a “weenie” when they stand up for what they believe in? I think you got everything backwards. YOU are a “weenie” when you don’t speak out when wrong is being done.
Mick
February 28th, 2013
2:00 pm
jerry
Reality bites and modern presidents need to be more careful in their choices, do you think clinton deserved to be impeached?
Doggone/GA
February 28th, 2013
2:00 pm
“Unlike Bookman, who allows his political views to color his writings – See more at: http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2013/02/28/when-did-bob-woodward-become-such-a-weenie/?cp=1#comment-1246610”
You are on an OPINION PAGE. If you don’t like the “slant” of Jay’s opinions…why do you even come here?
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 28th, 2013
2:01 pm
TBS = weenie.
Bro= silly costumed overpaid weenie
Union
February 28th, 2013
2:01 pm
Mick
February 28th, 2013
1:58 pm
Who’s afraid of the big, bad, obama white house? Apparently only reporters but the rest of the world? Not so much..
so true mick.. so true.. j
Recon 0311 2533
February 28th, 2013
2:01 pm
You can be certain that the jester of the sequester didn’t like Woodward openly discussing his incompetency and he’s now on the White House enemies list. Look for more Woodward expose’s on the narcissistic ones presidency because Obama may now be on Woodward’s enemies list.
King of Planet Kolob
February 28th, 2013
2:01 pm
Now that the details of the emails are out, I think Sperling is right and Woodward is already regretting. On a side note….Zell Miller also challenged Chris Matthews to a duel (LOL). I wonder if he has a A rating from the NRA?
Matt321
February 28th, 2013
2:01 pm
Woodward hasn’t been a respected journalist in years. His job is to cozy up to the powerbrokers of Washington so he can write flattering books about them. That way, the other powerbrokers will be willing to let him write a flattering book about them, too.
Woodward is selling a book, right now. That’s why he’s latching onto this non-story – to sell his latest book about the sequester. It’s pathetic.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 28th, 2013
2:02 pm
The Irish Code Duello of 1777
No, there is no evidence that Zell Miller originated these.
Anton Chigurh
February 28th, 2013
2:02 pm
Ezra Klein nails it in WonkBlog on WaPo.
Regnad Kcin
February 28th, 2013
2:03 pm
“When does someone become a “weenie” when they stand up for what they believe in?”
Okay, Morality, I’ll bite: just what did Mr. Woodward believe in that he “stood up for” here? Seems to me like he made a claim, and after the news cycle, retracted it.
What do YOU say he “stood up for?”
Mick
February 28th, 2013
2:04 pm
morality
Obama would be the second reality show president; reagan was the first, if that’s how you choose to look at it…
getalife
February 28th, 2013
2:04 pm
corporate media lost all credibility and not even trying to gain it back.
Pretty much like the gop they shill for.
td
February 28th, 2013
2:04 pm
I do not know what Woodword interpreted as a threat but that is the whole point of these other Federal laws. If he FELT threatened like if a African American thinks a statement is racist then it is or if a women FEELS harassed then she is harassed.
Joel
February 28th, 2013
2:05 pm
No surprise that you would respond to this story in this way. The Admistration bristles that any established journalist would in any shape or form question them. That is the problem today…the mainstream media “does not” question anything this president does. The hypocrisy is appalling. The way the media questioned the Bush administration and the current administration is like night and day. When the media stops asking hard questions of any government official, we are in real trouble and we are getting close. I do not think you have what it takes to ask the hard questions of Obama.
Morality?
February 28th, 2013
2:06 pm
1:57 – You know what “they” say? It takes one to KNOW one!
td
February 28th, 2013
2:06 pm
getalife
February 28th, 2013
2:04 pm
corporate media lost all credibility and not even trying to gain it back.
Pretty much like the gop they shill for.
Dam Get. You can not make ridiculous statements like that when a person is trying to eat lunch. Now I have to clean off my keyboard.
Regnad Kcin
February 28th, 2013
2:06 pm
“If he FELT threatened like if a African American thinks a statement is racist then it is or if a women FEELS harassed then she is harassed.”
That is wrong. You are a silly person.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 28th, 2013
2:06 pm
The way the media questioned the Bush administration and the current administration is like night and day.
The smoking gun is the mushroom cloud.
We will be greeted as liberators.
Brosephus™ - She say you soul brother too beaucoup
February 28th, 2013
2:07 pm
Heyward
Troll for attention much? Stick to licking Ron Paul’s feet. That’s something you do rather well. Maybe he’ll anoint you with his “oil” in return.
Patty
February 28th, 2013
2:07 pm
Bob Woodward knows what a threat is–he’s dealt with several on his life in his career so if he felt threatened, there’s a good chance he was. Libs are just mad because he reported against their ‘man’ for a change.
getalife
February 28th, 2013
2:08 pm
td,
That is a bizarre reaction to the truth.
Brosephus™ - She say you soul brother too beaucoup
February 28th, 2013
2:08 pm
No, there is no evidence that Zell Miller originated these.
Maybe he’s learned how to do the dance….
Recon 0311 2533
February 28th, 2013
2:09 pm
Okay, Morality, I’ll bite: just what did Mr. Woodward believe in that he “stood up for” here? Seems to me like he made a claim, and after the news cycle, retracted it.
Regnad, I think you have that a little bit turned around. The White House originally said that the sequester was not Obama’s idea. Woodward forced them to finally confess that it was Obama’s idea. The Carney man had to admit as much during a press briefing.
curious
February 28th, 2013
2:10 pm
What’s with Lindsey Graham and John McCain hanging out together so much/ Hardly ever see one without the other.
Class of '98
February 28th, 2013
2:10 pm
Barack Obama probably won’t be asked about this when he does his next scheduled hard-hitting interview with the Billy Bob and The Brat, playing nothing but the hits from the 90’s, 2000’s and today on 98.7 The Thump, Albuquerque’s #1 pop music station!!
Regnad Kcin
February 28th, 2013
2:11 pm
” if he felt threatened, there’s a good chance he was”
Patty – could you kindly point out the quote he felt threateded by? Thanks in advance.
Morality?
February 28th, 2013
2:11 pm
Mick – No Obama is definitely our 1st Reality show President……… reality shows did not exist back during Ronnie’s time – and Ronnie didn’t go on Oprah.
TBS
February 28th, 2013
2:11 pm
“TBS = weenie.”
Translation: I’m a Ron Paul and Alex Jones groupie and don’t like to be called out for their bs
You elected to be brainwashed by a career Republican who claimed not to like party politics.
Are Bloomberg’s henchmen still after Alex Jones?
curious
February 28th, 2013
2:11 pm
The Sequester was Obama’s idea to make the Republicans look stupid.
It’s working.
getalife
February 28th, 2013
2:12 pm
The sequester was hatched by gramm.
He is the idiot that deregulated the banks and he is the king of disasters.
JohnnyReb
February 28th, 2013
2:12 pm
The Left just can’t take it when one of their own tells the exposing truth on Obama.
Jay’s whole premise is Woodward feeling threatened from Sperling. I suggest that if Sperling and Woodward are truly friends, as their email exchange implies, there are threats from other people which have not been made public. Woodward did not back down from Nixon, and Obama is a cream puff compared to Tricky Dick.
It’s also highly indicative of Obama supporters that many of the young media types don’t know who Woodward is, or did not until this came up and they learned. Blind fools.
Community Organizer (with-no-desire-to-govern, little-care-for-high-unemployment, no-talent-for-leadership,-zero-desire-to-compromise-and-a-lust-for-making-my-enemies-pay) Obama
February 28th, 2013
2:13 pm
Leave it to Jay to misreport the threat. What happened during the hair-raising phone call referenced in the email, huh? Jay does not say maybe because Jay does not want to say.
Easy to predict this on the Bookman blog.
But if Bookman is threatened by a Republican, think he doesn’t take it seriously and scream to the whole musical comedy world?
Translation: Republicans not upholding the myth of the godlike supremacy and uber-liberal infallibility of Obama are racists. Democrats doing so are weenies.
Gene Sperling admitted to yelling at Woodward; maybe we should take him at his word–Sperling, I mean.
Congratulations, Mr. Bookman–on not being a weenie by keeping tryst with our incompetent Prez.
Recon 0311 2533
February 28th, 2013
2:13 pm
It’s working.
Or so you would like to believe.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 28th, 2013
2:13 pm
Neo-Con Woodward is only playing his part to distract from the REAL question recently asked John Brennen and Obama.
.
And that is……………………..Does the CIA or the President have the legal authority to assascinate/drone American citizens in American ?
.
Both criminal cretins refuse to answer.
.
You’ll not hear the State-sponsored pressitutes keep this in the news………………….but us patriots will.
Cherokee
February 28th, 2013
2:13 pm
td I kind of thought you might have the integrity to admit that you made a mistake – since you posted about Woodward’s no good horrible very bad day yesterday evening.
Guess I was misguided.
Morality?
February 28th, 2013
2:14 pm
2:09 B I N G O !
Regnad Kcin
February 28th, 2013
2:14 pm
“Regnad, I think you have that a little bit turned around.”
Recon – you may be correct about that. Actually I was referring to this “threat” fooforaw – Mr. Woodward certainly never felt threatened, but the suggestion of it certainly got him into the news cycle, didn’t it?
Brosephus™ - She say you soul brother too beaucoup
February 28th, 2013
2:15 pm
I still fail to see the significance in who was the originator of the sequester idea. If someone originates the idea for you to take a .357 Magnum and try to catch a bullet from it with your teeth, are you not the one responsible if you ACTUALLY try it? or do you blame the person who gave you the idea?
Morality?
February 28th, 2013
2:15 pm
Sequester – check! Obama’s move.
Towncrier
February 28th, 2013
2:16 pm
“When did Bob Woodward become such a weenie?”
Do I sense a bit of weenie envy (given his relative prominence to yours)?
“In the first place, the context makes it clear that Sperling was warning Woodward that if he reported things that way, he would regret it because it would be factually incorrect.”
It was not factually incorrect. From Politico:
“Obama personally approved the plan and later signed it into law. Woodward was right, several congressional officials involved in the talks told us.”
Well, you should just read the whole piece:
=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/woodward-at-war-88212.html?hp=t1_3
“Even if you try real real real hard to imagine Sperling’s email as some threat, it in no way justifies Woodward’s collapse upon his fainting couch.”
Have you ever thought that Woodward’s claim was based on more than just the letter and possibly on other personal experiences he has had with the administration? And exactly what justifies you playing the role of High Priest to the Obama administration? Is it possible for you to be something other than a cheer leader? Again, from Politico:
“The feud also feeds a larger narrative because, like many others, Woodward thinks this is a very thin-skinned White House that does not like being challenged on the facts.”
Is Lanny Davis exaggerating or lying as well?
=http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/28/former-clinton-aide-obama-wh-threatened-my-paper-too/
How about Dave Phillips?
=http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/13/obamas-interior-secretary-allegedly-threatens-colorado-springs-reporter-ill-punch-you-out/
When will you liberals stop BLINDLY defending this administration?
UNCLE SAMANTHA
February 28th, 2013
2:17 pm
LIBERALS JUST DONT UNDERSTAND
ITS WHO SAYS IT THATS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT IS SAID
I’M GONNA MAKE HIM AN OFFER HE CAN’T REFUSE……… THE GOD-FATHER
Regnad Kcin
February 28th, 2013
2:17 pm
” I suggest that if Sperling and Woodward are truly friends, as their email exchange implies, there are threats from other people which have not been made public.”
JReb – I suggest you pulled that out of your nether orifice. Try reality – it’s not that bad.
Community Organizer (with-no-desire-to-govern, little-care-for-high-unemployment, no-talent-for-leadership,-zero-desire-to-compromise-and-a-lust-for-making-my-enemies-pay) Obama
February 28th, 2013
2:17 pm
getalife @ 212,
Will you libs please admit for once that Obama is president, and that he, not racist-round-every-corner Republicans, is the most powerful person in the free world?
Try and imagine what the world would be like if Obama had been President for 4+ years already; try this and then open your eyes and realize that your liberal fantasy has come true (though it’s turning out to be a sobering experience isn’t it?)–and that your demagogue liberal nightmares have NOT.
Morality?
February 28th, 2013
2:18 pm
I like me some sequester stew every now and then – makes you have to actually DO SOMETHING – hopefully. FOUR plus years of doing NOTHING Obama – it’s TIME!
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
February 28th, 2013
2:18 pm
Sequester – check! Obama’s move.
Wrong.
Next move is the American voters. Bye Bye Republican party.
2014 RIP
getalife
February 28th, 2013
2:18 pm
The right are weak crybabies so woodward fits right in.
I remember the cons screaming about his third book on w.
Recon 0311 2533
February 28th, 2013
2:19 pm
Regnad,
It certainly has and Woodward’s an experienced old salt who knows how to play it like a concert pianist. I don’t believe it’s wise for the administration to give him too much static.
DannyX
February 28th, 2013
2:19 pm
“The Sequester was Obama’s idea to make the Republicans look stupid”
Did Obama also come up with Bachmann, Santorum, Perry, Cain, Akins, Mourdock, Newt, 47%, legitimate rape, Etch-a-Sketch, Fox and Friends, Rush, Hannity, an empty chair and unskewed polls?
rightwingextreme
February 28th, 2013
2:19 pm
Jay
February 28th, 2013
1:12 pm
Dharma, the issue isn’t whether Woodward felt threatened. It’s not about his apparently tender fee-fees.
The issue is whether he WAS threatened. He was not.
Jay….that’s YOUR opinion of the matter. Until you’ve sat in Woodward’s chair you have no right to judge whether he felt threatened or not.
It’s amazing how you obama lap dawgs rush to his defense. Joseph Gobells would have been envious!
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
February 28th, 2013
2:20 pm
LIBERALS JUST DONT UNDERSTAND
ITS WHO SAYS IT THATS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT IS SAID
I’M GONNA MAKE HIM AN OFFER HE CAN’T REFUSE……… THE GOD-FATHER
CAN ANYBODY MAKE ANY SENSE OUT OF WHAT THIS OLD LADY SAYS.
IF SO WOULD YOU PLEASE TRANSLATE IT INTO ENGLISH.
USE ALL CAPS ILL KNOW WHERE TO FIND IT
getalife
February 28th, 2013
2:20 pm
What are you mumbling about organizer?
Try writing something sane and I will answer.
Morality?
February 28th, 2013
2:20 pm
2:17 – a totally.ridiculous, absurd but silly RANT!
JohnnyReb
February 28th, 2013
2:21 pm
Regnad Kcin – I live in reality unlike most Moonbats. If you think Woodward became concerned from only Speriling’s ranting, you are not in reality.
Jay, as always, is an Obama foot soldier. He has great objectivity on local matters but not so much on the National stage.
Woodward is no shrinking violet.
Cherokee
February 28th, 2013
2:21 pm
Ahhh theblaze.com
Now there’s some real journalism for you….
Look before I leap...
February 28th, 2013
2:21 pm
getalife
February 28th, 2013
2:08 pm
td,
That is a bizarre reaction to the truth.
The image his comment conjured up, was someone ordering room service on the Titanic.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
February 28th, 2013
2:22 pm
Mick:
No, and your point is???
from Jay’s narrative: “Last night on CNN, Bob Woodward….” and “to drive the point home, Woodward repeated the claim in an interview with Politico:”
Followed by Mick: “On top of that, who does woodward go running to? Sean hannity,”