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White House denies staffer threatened Watergate journalist Woodward
http://www.foxnews.com ^ | 2/28/2013

Posted on 02/28/2013 5:57:19 AM PST by RoosterRedux

The White House is denying reports an adviser threatened famed Watergate journalist Bob Woodward after the Washington Post reporter challenged President Obama's version of events on the looming sequester.

Woodward claimed Wednesday night that a White House aide sent him an email saying he would "regret" his comments. The aide was not identified, but an official familiar with the exchange told Fox News it was National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling. That was after Woodward wrote a column this past weekend claiming Obama was trying to re-write history -- regarding not only whose idea the sequester was, but also how it would take effect.

Woodward wrote that based on his reporting earlier in the budget battle, the president was trying to move the goalposts by trying to replace the sequester with a mix of tax hikes and spending cuts -- instead of solely spending cuts.

After Politico reported late Wednesday that Woodward was coming forward to claim he was threatened, a White House aide denied the claim.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; genesperling; lyingliars; nazis; partisanmediashills; sequester; thugs; whabuse
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To: BwanaNdege

Wherever Vince Foster died, it wasn’t in Fort Marcy Park. The body was laid out like on a mortician’s slab, & the thumb was jammed into the trigger guard of an antique revolver he didn’t even own.

The Clintons made out like fat rats on that one.


41 posted on 02/28/2013 7:30:06 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: RoosterRedux

Report the deny lie OR ELSE!


42 posted on 02/28/2013 7:34:58 AM PST by 444Flyer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Somebody’s lying. Is it Bob? Or is it Barry?”

Ha! Rhetorical, I know. Hussein CAN’T NOT lie.

Fortunately, there are still tons of old hippie now-Obama supporters who remember Watergate. They’ve worshiped Woodward as some kind of god for bringing down Nixon. He has credibility, an they might even pay attention to him now when he says that the emperor has no clothes.

I hope Woodward is not laughing this off. Nixon and his staff were a bunch of dolts who bungled a chicken-sh!t B&E, and weren’t dangerous. Hussein is evil and extremely dangerous. He could realize the same fate as Breitbart, Breitbart’s coroner, and the gay guys in Obama’s Chicago church. Dirt naps — all of ‘em.


43 posted on 02/28/2013 7:51:22 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: RoosterRedux

We didn’t threaten him we just wanted to tell him that we were sending him a gift, a pair of specially fitted cement shoes!


44 posted on 02/28/2013 7:58:34 AM PST by Rock N Jones
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To: Boogieman

“Seems pretty stupid of the WH to call Woodward a liar if he can just produce the email on a Sunday morning show in retaliation.”

This administration is nothing BUT LIES and the idiots who keep believing them. Say it often enough and it goes away. He didn’t know nothing about Benghazi, Fast and Furious, who insisted on sequester, threats, etc.


45 posted on 02/28/2013 8:07:42 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: RipSawyer

“We are very close to losing democracy and freedom.”
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The way I see it we are not close to losing freedom, it has already been lost. As for democracy, that is what we were never supposed to have, in fact we were warned against it, we were supposed to have a constitutional republic, the republic was lost long ago and a perverted democracy was forced on us, now the de facto democracy is evolving to an unconstrained oligarchy which will be seen as a dictatorship but the dictator is merely a puppet operated from behind the scenes by a group which is bent on the total destruction of the USA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROnbwCf37EA

What are you? Some sorta crazy insane BIRTCHER?????

Sorry, It is just that I have been slammed on this very forum for posting the exact same video so i am passing the love onto the next poster of that video...


46 posted on 02/28/2013 8:09:41 AM PST by GraceG
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To: RoosterRedux
None of this is a surprise to those who remember the story...

"Journalist locked in a closet for hours during VP Biden's fundraiser"
47 posted on 02/28/2013 10:02:17 AM PST by tsowellfan
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To: RoosterRedux
Woodward claimed Wednesday night that a White House aide sent him an email saying he would "regret" his comments. The aide was not identified, but an official familiar with the exchange told Fox News it was National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling.

Sounds easy enough to prove...

48 posted on 02/28/2013 10:17:59 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: RoosterRedux
Former Obama adviser David Plouffe tweeted Wednesday: "Watching Woodward last 2 days is like imagining my idol Mike Schmidt facing live pitching again.

Mike may not be able to hit like he used to, but Plouffe was never clear as to whom would be pitching. After all, we've seen president mom jeans throw......


49 posted on 02/28/2013 10:20:22 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Fawn

...more than one. The Mafia never stops at one. That would be like eating just one salted peanut.


50 posted on 02/28/2013 11:50:20 AM PST by miserare
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To: TomGuy

Sissyboy Tucker is scared s-less that he may be on the blacklist. He’s backpedalling his tricycle as fast as he can. WIMP!


51 posted on 02/28/2013 11:52:10 AM PST by miserare
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To: MayflowerMadam

Nixon and Co. were the Three Sttoges.

Obama’s gang is Murder Incorporated.


52 posted on 02/28/2013 11:57:42 AM PST by miserare
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To: miserare

Three STOOGES versus Murder Inc.


53 posted on 02/28/2013 11:59:02 AM PST by miserare
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To: GraceG

What are you? Some sorta crazy insane BIRTCHER?????
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No, not at all, far worse in fact. I am a white haired 68 year old, six four and 260 pounds but NOT FAT, born and raised ten miles from the courthouse where the first secession meeting was held, grandson of a confederate veteran, grandnephew of a confederate veteran, baptized in a millpond at twelve years by a raving Southern Baptist preacher who thought dancing was a sin worthy of being condemned from the pulpit, joined the USN just before my 18th birthday, read Atlas Shrugged before I was 21 and loved it, madly heterosexual, married to a real woman who is very intelligent but still dumb enough to live with me, descended from the Normans who conquered England at the battle of Hastings, “information junkie”, puke at the sight of eared reader. I am a master of many arts now unknown to all but an elite few, things like pulling one end of a two man crosscut, splitting firewood with axe or nine pound maul, milking cows, plowing a field with a mule, picking cotton etc. I can build a fire in a drizzling rain too. Bircher? I’m a full blown revolving nut case!


54 posted on 02/28/2013 5:23:50 PM PST by RipSawyer
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To: RoosterRedux

Can’t help wondering how Woodward likes being “Chavezed”...


55 posted on 02/28/2013 5:32:25 PM PST by Ladysmith (Every time another lib loses its job, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: RoosterRedux

a White House aide denied the claim.

Yeah, but the White House is a vending Machine of Liars.


56 posted on 03/04/2013 8:31:39 PM PST by LtKerst
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