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WMAL EXCLUSIVE: Fmr. Clinton Aide Davis Says He Received White House Threat (audio at link)
630 WMAL, Washington, DC ^ | 2/28/13 | WMAL Staff

Posted on 02/28/2013 6:25:09 AM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD

WASHINGTON -- Bob Woodward isn't the only person who's received threats for airing the Obama administration's dirty laundry. It seems anyone is a potential target of the White House these days - even former senior members of the Clinton administration.

A day after Woodward's claim that a senior White House official had told him he would "regret" writing a column criticizing President Obama's stance on the sequester, Lanny Davis, a longtime close advisor to President Bill Clinton, told WMAL's Mornings on the Mall Thursday he had received similar threats for newspaper columns he had written about Obama in the Washington Times.

Davis told WMAL that his editor, John Solomon, "received a phone call from a senior Obama White House official who didn't like some of my columns, even though I'm a supporter of Obama. I couldn't imagine why this call was made." Davis says the Obama aide told Solomon, "that if he continued to run my columns, he would lose, or his reporters would lose their White House credentials."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; genesperling; intimidation; lannydavis; obama; partisanmediashills; sequester; talkradio; whabuse; wmal; x42
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Hey, Lanny Davis. Names, or it didn’t happen. Same thing I told Woodward. If these threats happened, and you’re too intimidated to give the name of who issued them, then I’d say they worked. You guys are acting like a couple of little girls.


41 posted on 02/28/2013 8:38:59 AM PST by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I’m feeling a “Look at Me!” movement here.

BINGO!

42 posted on 02/28/2013 9:23:54 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: JohnG45
And I was right...

Already another copycat "victim".

 

Ron Fournier: Yeah, I Got the Abusive Treatment From the WH
Big Government ^ | 02/28/2013 | Ace of Spades
 

Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:17:00 AM by Rusty0604

As editor-in-chief of National Journal, I received several e-mails and telephone calls from this White House official filled with vulgarity, abusive language, and virtually the same phrase that Woodward called a veiled threat. “You will regret staking out that claim,” The Washington Post reporter was told. Once I moved back to daily reporting this year, the badgering intensified. I wrote Saturday night, asking the official to stop e-mailing me.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


 

43 posted on 02/28/2013 9:28:21 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I hope they all come forward.


44 posted on 02/28/2013 9:29:52 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Responsibility2nd
First Woodward, then Attkisson, now this dweeb?

And Lanny Davis, too. It's on Drudge today.

45 posted on 02/28/2013 9:30:52 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: BenLurkin

Woodward, Attkisson, Davis and Fournier. That’s four so far in the last 24 hours.

I guess the real question is how many gerbalists HAVE NOT been threatened by the White Hut?


46 posted on 02/28/2013 9:34:24 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
This story is all over twitter now and the political forums. Looks like Zero AND his MEDIA are about to lose a lot of credibility. I mean, if you were a fence sitting non-partisan American are you going to wonder about the next good thing the media says about this White House and whether or not they were threatened into only talking good about the joke in the WH?

The liberal media being EXPOSED before our very eyes.

47 posted on 02/28/2013 9:34:42 AM PST by tsowellfan
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

The Ceausescus must be feeling just a little bit uneasy right now.


48 posted on 02/28/2013 9:38:59 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: MomofMarine

Typical Axelrod MO: He is a master of digging dirt to the point of having friendly justices open sealed divorce records: For example:

Blair Hull in 2008 primary taken out by allegations from sealed divorce records. Hull was leading up in multi person primary including Dear Leader until some pretty bad allegations the week before the election came out. Thus Dear Leader wins primary in 2004

Jack Ryan taken out after Chicago Tribune (aka Libune) where Axelrod worked obtained sealed divorce records which had some nasty stuff. Ryan was actually favored to beat Dear Leader in Senate election. Ryan backed out of race and Dear Leader romped Alan Keyes

Herman Cain taken out in primaries by sexual harassment charges. Isnt it a coincidence the main accuser who was bound by confidentiality lived in the same builiding and maybe even the same floor as Axelrod. Another rival taken out

SOP in Chicago. The raised nail gets hammered down


49 posted on 02/28/2013 9:45:56 AM PST by slapshot ("Were not gonna take it anymore" Twisted Sister)
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To: N. Theknow

Lanny Davis is a decent person.I never agreed with his defense of Bill Clinton, but he was always a gentleman.


50 posted on 02/28/2013 9:49:51 AM PST by billhilly
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Lanny Davis- One of a long list of JINO “enablers” of Obama. Guess he never heard of Adolph Hitler! Another SP Jew with a short memory!


51 posted on 02/28/2013 9:57:03 AM PST by vette6387
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Lanny Davis: The Pee Wee Herman of American politics.


52 posted on 02/28/2013 10:03:14 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Timber Rattler
This is hilarious coming from old Lanny, who’s one of the Chicago outfit’s biggest apologists.

...and that's what he's doing here. He's trying to play down the seriousness of the threats. "Oh, they said that to me too, and I just told them it wasn't appropriate and they stopped". Meanwhile, Plouff is running around calling Woodward senile. As usual, instead of getting on the same page, the White House is getting on all of them at the same time, hoping somebody will find one of them persuasive.

53 posted on 02/28/2013 10:22:45 AM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: Responsibility2nd

There are going to dozens by the time this is over.

1. They want to make it appear like it’s no big deal - that Woodward can’t take the heat and he’s a senile whiner.

2. By jumping on the bandwagon, they elevate their own importance and get TV face time.


54 posted on 02/28/2013 10:33:16 AM PST by randita
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To: Responsibility2nd

“I’m feeling a “Look at Me!” movement here. I wonder who the next presstitute to be threatened by the White Hut will be?”

I can’t for the life of me imagine why you would have a problem with Obama’s thug tactics being exposed for the liberal world to see.


55 posted on 02/28/2013 11:00:04 AM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Hey Rush, you forgot to tell us when to panic.)
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To: expat2

I have said many times the administration is nothing more than “The Chicago Way Does DC.”


56 posted on 02/28/2013 11:12:56 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: MomofMarine

Always wondered why Olympia Snowe voted Healthcare Bill out of committee. Were it not for that.......
Not to mention the tortuous opinion of CJ of SCOTUS.


57 posted on 02/28/2013 11:21:12 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: FR_addict

Good points.


58 posted on 02/28/2013 1:15:45 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Well that’s it...... Hillary is running.

It makes me sick to think we are going to have to put up with the asshole lanny Davis again


59 posted on 02/28/2013 1:20:03 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: TexasCajun

EVERYONE: People get killed if they cross the bozo. READ the following:
https://www.americanfreepress.net/html/members_of_oboma_s_church_kill.html

If anyone tells you bozo knew nothing of a threat made to Woodward, give them this link...bozo will protect himself any way he can. He is dangerous and must be removed.


60 posted on 02/28/2013 1:54:14 PM PST by itssme
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