Posted on 02/27/2013 8:59:28 PM PST by Rennes Templar
(CNN) - Veteran journalist Bob Woodward said Wednesday he was threatened by a senior Obama administration official following his reporting on the White House's handling of the forced federal spending cuts set to take effect on Friday.
"They're not happy at all," he said on CNN's "The Situation Room," adding that an e-mail from a senior administration official - who he would not name - communicated a message which caused him great concern.
"It was said very clearly, you will regret doing this," he said.
Woodward penned a 2012 book reporting that the idea for the spending cuts, known as the sequester, originated with the White House. It's a claim President Barack Obama originally denied, but the White House has since acknowledged.
But it was language that he used in an op-ed published over the weekend in The Washington Post that drew what he said was the Obama administration response.
"[W]hen the president asks that a substitute for the sequester include not just spending cuts but also new revenue, he is moving the goal posts," Woodward wrote. "His call for a balanced approach is reasonable, and he makes a strong case that those in the top income brackets could and should pay more. But that was not the deal he made."
Headlined "Obama's sequester deal-changer," it was widely cited by Republicans seeking to avert the across-the-board cuts without a tax increase.
"The fundamental question here the president has to decide - does he wanna be president of a political party or does he want to be president of the United States?" House Speaker John Boehner asked at a Tuesday news conference. "It is time for leadership."
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Dear Bob:
Names.
Or, it never happened.
If Bob Woodward said it, I think I believe it.
Did Nixon’s plumbers ever threaten him?/s;)
Again, Bruce Willis in Diehard: “Welcome to the party pal!”
After four years...some journalists have come to grasp that it’s become a comic opera of sorts. Woodward tends to publish a book every eighteen months...so you’d best prepare for a dismal story on the White House by the end of this year.
Gene Sperling.
98th thread on the topic today.
Woodward did not lie about Nixon. Why would he be lying now? He is just protecting his rear end by outing the threat. If his car crashes, it won’t be ruled an accident quickly, without an investigation now.
“After four years...some journalists have come to grasp that it’s become a comic opera of sorts.”
And the monster so turns on its creators. Too late?
The president kicks out the media while taking questions this week. Woodward gets threatened? Did it happen or is he trying to get better ratings? The media may just be getting spanked by the idiot they forced upon us for the past 6 years. Do I see karma?? I can only hope. Don’t forget, dictators make their own rules.
The president kicks out the media while taking questions this week. Woodward gets threatened? Did it happen or is he trying to get better ratings? The media may just be getting spanked by the idiot they forced upon us for the past 6 years. Do I see karma?? I can only hope. Don’t forget, dictators make their own rules.
Now we'll find out if there are any journalists left in the media.
Do they side with one of their "own", or do they continue to carry water for Obama, who will throw them under the bus or destroy them on a whim if they fall out of his favor.
> Well, what have we here?
A distraction from (fill in the blank).
Watch for power blackouts as sequestration looms closer
Obama and his union whores will pull the plug
“If Bob Woodward said it, I think I believe it.”
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Me too. A liberal complaining about Obama? That certainly gives him credibility.
I admire a journalist with integrity.
The MSM worm has turned, or will? It would be nice to see them, um, doingtheirdamjobs (SEE: Congress), but I’m going to hold off for a while before subscribing to the Washington Post or NYT—or cupping one hand behind my back.
Or that they've created a totalitarian monster. Some may be channeling the thoughts of pro-Castro Cuban intellectuals as they were being herded to "the wall" by Che Guevara's thugs. I think Woodward's matured and is showing some guts.
I wonder how the WH will spin this one.
They will probably make him an offer he cannot refuse.
Was he ever threatened by either the Nixon or Ford White Houses?
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