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BOB WOODWARD: A 'Very Senior' White House Person Warned Me I'd 'Regret' What I'm Doing
TBI ^ | 2-27-2013 | Brett LoGiurato

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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KEYWORDS: aircraftcarrier; bobwoodward; derelectionofduty; genesperling; iran; madness; middleeast; mideasst; obama; partisanmediashills; persiangulf; sequester; sperling; threats; ussharrystruman; ussharrytruman; whitehouse; woodward
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To: 88keys

Don’t doubt it Sperling is a punk.


21 posted on 02/27/2013 9:09:32 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Soylent Green is Boomers)
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To: blam
Sperling wasn't even saying that Woodward would "regret" publishing whatever he planned to publish because Sperling would get him back for it later. He was saying Woodward would regret it because Woodward would be proven wrong.

Ha, this guy has got to be kidding. If "He was saying Woodward would regret it because Woodward would be proven wrong", then that's what he would have said. Anybody over the age of eight knows that the level of vagueness of the threat should be interpreted to be the level of violence implied.

22 posted on 02/27/2013 9:14:11 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: blam

Hi Bob, better watch out for those canadian made busses coming down the pike
this might be fun yet


23 posted on 02/27/2013 9:14:28 PM PST by munin
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To: Old Sarge

Gene Sperling, per many threads tonight.


24 posted on 02/27/2013 9:15:11 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Our man in washington

If you’re talking Deep Throat as it applies to 0, you my be more on target with ‘Leggie Rove’. The name fits so tight.


25 posted on 02/27/2013 9:15:46 PM PST by untwist
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Woodward was a god to the MSM.

Hitler was a God to left also, then he attacked Stalin....

26 posted on 02/27/2013 9:24:55 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: blam; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; TigersEye; onyx
Just posted this from a link at Drudge:

Journalist Bob Woodward blasts Obama "madness" in handling cuts

Article is from Reuters.

27 posted on 02/27/2013 9:33:26 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: catfish1957
One can hope........

He had the backing of the press corps and left wing media owners in taking down Nixon. He doesn't have that kind of support to take out Obama. But, you can hope, wishful thinking.

28 posted on 02/27/2013 10:17:56 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: blam

Arkancide is painless compared with the Chicago Treatment!


29 posted on 02/27/2013 10:19:15 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: blam

If I were Bob, I’d be calling Robert Redford begging him to do another stand-in for me!


30 posted on 02/27/2013 10:23:35 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: blam

Mr. Woodward is not the only person being made “very uncomfortable” I live in Arizona where just released felons are wandering about....only Mexicans? Isn’t that profiling? This Marxist is making no bones about who and what he is or what he intends to do to America with the wrecking ball he is using. I commend Mr. Woodward for his honesty in reporting, perhaps this is the beginning of a break through for other news reporters to begin to report the truth, not an opinion....said she hopefully. Is Obama showing signs of madness?


31 posted on 02/27/2013 11:21:20 PM PST by yoe
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; blam; ntnychik; potlatch; onyx

YOU'LL REGRET THIS

32 posted on 02/27/2013 11:28:09 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
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To: TChad
Isn't Bob Woodward looking more and more like a RACIST?......you are being sarcastic aren't you?

Want some racism?....why did Obama call for only Mexicans to be released in Arizona? Isn't that profiling? Yes it was Obama who did this....Big Sis doesn't give the orders, her boss does.

33 posted on 02/27/2013 11:31:40 PM PST by yoe
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To: Our man in washington

Are you certain it isn’t Arry Bobama?


34 posted on 02/28/2013 12:04:36 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: blam

35 posted on 02/28/2013 1:13:40 AM PST by mirkwood (project gutenberg)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Ernest.


36 posted on 02/28/2013 3:51:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: TChad

They will raid his house and find child porn on his computer.
That ALWAYS works.


37 posted on 02/28/2013 4:02:15 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: Tennessee Nana; AuntB; Grampa Dave; 2ndDivisionVet; GOPJ; sickoflibs; justiceseeker93; NYer; ...

First Round-—Jeopardy

ANSWER: “All The Presidents’ Men”

QUESTION: Who ganged up on Bob Woodward?


38 posted on 02/28/2013 4:12:46 AM PST by Liz
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To: blam

Name the senior White Hut person, Bob.

You’re lying otherwise.


39 posted on 02/28/2013 6:28:09 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

And now it appears that Lanny Davis is having a bit of pleasant feedback from the White Hut as well, per a shorty in News at Fox home page.


40 posted on 02/28/2013 1:39:39 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (I'm going John Galt slowly.... But. Honor must be earned.)
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