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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
We didn’t threaten him and we’ll kill anyone who says that we did.
Well, if the threat was in an email, then it’s not going to be hard for Woodward to verify. 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.
We didn’t threaten him, the dead cat was just an accident.
I so want to cause pain to those over at DU
So, they are calling Bob Woodward a liar. Let’s see if Woodword lies does and takes it.
I believe Woodward. Remember that story about the administration locking journalists in a closet during some event? These people want to control the message and have no desire for the truth of anything to come out.
I foresee another Breitbart murder.....
“Transparency” My Eye!
The Obama administration has crossed a critical line on the way to tyranny.
All administrations Democrat and Republican will try to spin the news and facts to their own political advantage. The Obama administration is threatening reporters for telling the truth.
I have lived and worked in many foreign countries and some of these were dictatorships. I have seen the same thing happen in those countries. We are very close to losing democracy and freedom.
Wow, even Nixon didn’t push it THAT far.
He should probably stay out of Fort Marcy park too.
You using my police, my sanitation people, and my Oldsmobiles free of charge. So, if you mention extortion again, I’ll have your legs broken.
FoxNews/Tucker Carlson now reporting that Woodward may have ‘hyped’ the email and that the Sperling email wasn’t ‘that’ serious, as a threat.
... and Boner, Cantor and McConnell et al. still think they can play nice with these people ...
Woodward is an old rodeo hand and is mostly baiting the WH.
“We have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House”
“He should probably stay out of Fort Marcy park too.”
Or planes for that matter, remember Ron Brown?
This one is pretty funny, Woodward giving them an unexpected headache.
So when does the Obama regime call Woodward a Right Wing fanatic?
Hey, O is re-elected. They are free to be critical now.
“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
Wow, that’s a surprise. I thought they’d admit it.
Is it Bob?
Or is it Barry?
Every word that comes out of Barry's mouth is a slithering lie. Why would this time be any different?
The Obamedia is sending the flying monkeys after Woodward.
Well, now I would bet it’s gone from threats to little signals. Maybe a dead animal on the front porch. That email will never see the light of day.
From Gene Sperling to Bob Woodward on Feb. 22, 2013Bob:
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 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 barain 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. It was assumed by the Rs on the Supercommittee that came right after: it was assumed in the November-December 2012 negotiations. There may have been big disagreements over rates and ratios — but that it was supposed to be replaced by entitlements and revenues of some form is not controversial. (Indeed, the discretionary savings amount from the Boehner-Obama negotiations were locked in in BCA: the sequester was just designed to force all back to table on entitlements and revenues.)
I agree there are more than one side to our first disagreement, but again think this latter issue is diffferent. Not out to argue and argue on this latter point. Just my sincere advice. Your call obviously.
My apologies again for raising my voice on the call with you. Feel bad about that and truly apologize.
Gene
From Woodward to Sperling on Feb. 23, 2013
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
The white house is not believable in anything it says or does.
For those who don’t want to go to Politico here is the e-mail from the White House:
From Gene Sperling to Bob Woodward on Feb. 22, 2013
Bob:
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 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 barain 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. It was assumed by the Rs on the Supercommittee that came right after: it was assumed in the November-December 2012 negotiations. There may have been big disagreements over rates and ratios — but that it was supposed to be replaced by entitlements and revenues of some form is not controversial. (Indeed, the discretionary savings amount from the Boehner-Obama negotiations were locked in in BCA: the sequester was just designed to force all back to table on entitlements and revenues.)
I agree there are more than one side to our first disagreement, but again think this latter issue is diffferent. Not out to argue and argue on this latter point. Just my sincere advice. Your call obviously.
My apologies again for raising my voice on the call with you. Feel bad about that and truly apologize.
The White House doesn't care what you or I believe. All they have to do is make sure they can continue to convince the 51+% of the low-information voters.
That clip was played on The Morning Joe and FNC F+F this morning,
This fight is an unexpected headache for Obama empire.
It shows that this fight is not like the others.
This one could be fun for a change.
That clip was played on The Morning Joe and FNC F+F this morning,
This fight is an unexpected headache for Obama empire.
It shows that this fight is not like the others.
This one could be fun for a change.
Morning Joe is very pathetic when it comes to protecting democrats and in particular obama and obamasocialists.
Joe is the parrot.
mika is the sweater.
the guests are the flying monkies.
It would be nice. I have a feeling it will blow over soon; nothing touches obama. It IS nice to see Drudge fanning the flames, though.
I seriously doubt that Vince Foster died in Ft. Marcy Park.
However, because the sharks taking little bites out of the WH are Woodward and Lanny Davis and because they are indeed drawing blood (at least some threats) from the WH, it is possible this is just getting started.
Both Lanny and Woodward need all the press they can get, and this stuff keeps them in the headlines and keeps their books and speaking engagements in demand.
Also, it is important to keep in mind that because both Davis and Woodward are seasoned professionals, they now how to sense weakness and a bona fide story.
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.
Report the deny lie OR ELSE!
“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.
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!
“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.
“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...
Sounds easy enough to prove...
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......
...more than one. The Mafia never stops at one. That would be like eating just one salted peanut.
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