Posted on 02/27/2013 8:08:22 PM PST by blam
BOB WOODWARD: A 'Very Senior' White House Person Warned Me I'd 'Regret' What I'm Doing
Brett LoGiurato
February 27, 2013, 6:53 PM
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Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.
CNN host Wolf Blitzer said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.
"It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, 'You're going to regret doing something that you believe in,'" Woodward said.
"I think they're confused," Woodward said of the White House's pushback on his reporting.
Earlier today on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Woodward ripped into Obama in what has become an ongoing feud between the veteran Washington Post journalist and the White House. Woodward said Obama was showing a "kind of madness I haven't seen in a long time" for a decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns.
The Defense Department said in early February that it would not deploy the U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf, citing budget concerns relating to the looming cuts known as the sequester.
"Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, 'Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget document?'" Woodward said on MSNBC.
"Or George W. Bush saying, 'You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need?'" Or even Bill Clinton saying, 'You know, I'm not going to attack Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters,' ... because of some budget document?"
Last weekend, Woodward called out Obama
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Great post, Potlatch. Along with the parks, Woodward should avoid going canoeing on the Potomac during breakfast. Also might want to avoid an evening walk like the one Breitbart took a year ago.
Like Chelsea's baby-daddy had to roll over one more time to protect Medusa. . . .Bob Woodward is supposed to walk all that back to protect the High-Chair King. . . .
Chuck Berry -- Roll Over Beethoven (Bob Woodward, Webb Hubbell, et al)
Woodward brought down one president, let’s make it two.
YEAH!
Phil - greetings.
Do you think Woodward is going to walk this back?
Good - doesn’t look as though he will to me, either. The WH is digging deeper and Woodward’s pride is involved, too.
IMHO this may be, in hindsight, a significant event; now that several others are publicly stating they were threatened as well.
The MSM made this freak, they can un-make him any time they want. You’d think the freak would consider that, but he and his henchpersons are too blinded by evil.
Thanks nit! I thought about Breitbart many times while I was making that. Nowdays no one should announce that they are ‘going to reveal’ something. Just do it!!
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