Business Insider:
BOB WOODWARD: A ‘Very Senior’ White House Person Warned Me I’d ‘Regret’ What I’m Doing
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.
“I think they’re confused,” Woodward said of the White House’s pushback on his reporting.
So now the “most transparent administration ever” is threatening reporters who tell the truth about them.
I’m not making any predictions but this is the kind of thing that can be a game changer. If the media turns on Obama he’s toast and they don’t like it when one of their own gets attacked.
The Crawdad Hole 
hope you’re right!!
The distant noise heard was only a crack in the ice field. The thaw is not yet here, but spring can not be held back by threats from “very senior White House officials”. Put out the bird seed and pop some corn. This will be epic. “The bigger they are,……….”
The distant noise heard was only a crack in the ice field. The thaw is not yet here, but spring can not be held back by threats from “very senior White House officials”. Put out the bird seed and pop some corn. This will be epic. “The bigger they are,……….”
The distant noise heard was only a crack in the ice field. The thaw is not yet here, but spring can not be held back by threats from “very senior White House officials”. Put out the bird seed and pop some corn. This will be epic. “The bigger they are,……….”
unbelievable. so much for mobile commenting. please help a poor, uncoordinated fellow. OK? Del; Del.
Here we have an example of the rare “triple klutz”.
That’s what’s available from 27/33′
You can say that again. 🙂
You can say that again. 🙂
🙂
I’m imagining this senior WH person*, whoever it is, twirling ze mustache as they utter ze words: “You vill regret zis, M. Woodvard.”
*ValJar?
Now I’m imagining her with a mustache. Shudder.
Well, it might not be ValJar – it could be The Bangs.
#WhoThreatenedBob
Iowa Hawk
“Woodward” is Washingtonese for “Trotsky” #2minutehate
just because if I ever win the lottery I want one of these
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/02/2013-audi-rs-4-avant-paintball-duel/
Party poopers! Won’t let us do that on I-5.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/27/us-drugs-prosecutors-defending-traffickers
anybody else find this strange??
No. Who has the most disposable income, DEA or the cartels? Makes perfect sense. Money talks, public service employment walks.
NARCs are notorious among Cops for going over the edge. It’s something about with whom they spend their tine, IMO.
So many suspects when they say “senior White House official” My bet is ValJar. Hope he takes screen shots and downloads them to a flash drive.
And then buries the flash drive in a jar in the backyard.
Salon is tweeting “Bob Woodward has lost it, let’s all stop indulging him.” Josh at Talking Points Memo is laying bets on when Bob “goes full birther”. The Progs are sneering that Bob Woodward is and always has been a dirty right-winger.
I’m banking on “senile” and “racist” entering the mix soon.
Yep, the Fourth Estate is dead. They are circling the wagons for their Precious Leader, not their long-respected colleague telling the truth. It’s very Jacobin. “He has betrayed the revolution! Off with his head!”
What sick, sociopathic lapdogs!
It’s almost as if someone, somewhere were posting talking point memos, but in this land of Freedom of Speech we all know that could never happen.
You forgot “He was always a Republican”. Expect the ex-wives (if he has any) to surface soon with stories of how cheap he is and he kicked the dog too!
I think the ex-wives are probably gone (wasn’t Nora Ephron one of them?) That story can be seen in “Heart Burn”. He’s most likely always been a Dem Lib. the only wagons that get circled these days are around the First AA pResident. and don’t dare try to break through that circle. He is doomed.
Salon.com – I hardly knew ye.
Ephron was married to Carl Bernstein.
You know, they do have a right to be STOOPID.
does woodward know that the ones who will at least try to make him regret it may be his own colleagues?
Revered for Watergate, reviled for Obama gate….odd and sinister…
Youngman is with Reuters.
None of the press corpse is worried about having “anyone come for them” – they are doing EXACTLY what they are told, so they have nothing to fear.
Yup, common good German fallacy – the idea that you are such a perfect tool that the Fuhrer would never discard you.
i appreciate what bob’s doing, but i’m sorry, this is incredibly naive on his part:
really, bob? you don’t think obama knows what’s up? obama really has these people fooled.
It’s Woodward’s way of calling out Obama. He doesn’t believe it’s true….he just sets Obama up for blame if O doesn’t denounce it.
He’s been dealing with political hacks most of his life, our Woodward has. 🙂
More palace guard closing ranks:
I actually pity these tools – reduced to attempting to give Nixon a makeover.
I love your response. If I weren’ on my way to work I’d join right in with you!
Ouch.
LOL. I wonder how many ppl got it.
WH thought they were winning the sequestration PR fight but got
derailed by Bob Woodward with his Op Ed piece in Wapo late last week (he still keeps his asst managing editor title there, even though he doesn’t actually work there), Sunday shows, earlier this morning on MSNBC, etc. So they foolishly emailed him (couldn’t an underling just call his assistant or someone?) and were
caught in the act. Now Woodward has them by the balls. He could have laid low and waited for the right time to make the email like bombshell. He immediately upped the ante and went on CNN. So he is ready for the fight. This is not the Bob Woodward we knew, the legendary suckup for his sources.
This is what I think is happening. Bob is genuinely concerned for the country and aghast at the WH behavior. He is known for his Republican leanings. But I think there is more to
this. He already wrote his Obama book. So he has no use for the Obots. He is probably writing his next book. That book may be about Dems’ downfall, corruption, Repubs coming up,
Obama’s second term blues, etc. So by making them mad by calling them ‘mad’, he is provoking them to make more mistakes and cause a bigger drama. Aah, he wants them to write his book for him.
Bob Woodward, the evil genius.
Bingo!
Just sayin
also Leopards
O shit . copy pasted more than I thought , so sorry , can it be fixed ? heeelp .
ty ty ty < the grateful triple ty
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/285423-woodward-claims-white-house-threatened-him
now the white house says Woodward “MISCONSTRUED” what was said. it was not a threat.
kind of like when Al Capone said you should have bought your booze from me is not a threat
That is like walking in on your boyfriend having sex with your best friend , and he says ” This isn’t what it looks like ” = You misconstrued what was said , or , who do you believe , me or your lying eyes .?
Bob is not the only one. 🙄
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/27/biden-has-more-shotgun-advice-just-fire-the-shotgun-through-the-door/
more advice from joey gaffe.
Isn’t that why the bladerunner was arrested for murder????
I hope no one minds all the copy and pasting. It’s just easier than typing it twice.
I like doing that myself.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/27/taxpayer-shell-out-50k-for-moochs-lets-move-victory-lap/
for meeeeeschele this is pretty cheap
In GOP primary for Jesse Jackson Jr. seat, ex-convict Paul McKinley has 23 vote lead over opponent with all precincts reporting – @chicagotribune
He’s a long shot but I’m rooting for him.
They’ll turn on Woodward first. TPM is already laying the groundwork for a full scale assault on him. But Woodward will withstand the storm, and then things might change.
honk.
stole it
Sorry for the double post please delete one. 🙂
For the record, when my husband saw the glaring Politico headline in Memorandum today, he said, “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! They think they can intimidate Bob-fucking-Woodward?”
Honk!
Woodward the king unmaker. 😆 😆
In January, I attended some speaking engagements in Wash DC during the Inaugural week. Bob Woodward was one of the talks I heard.
We watched All the Pres. Men first and then he spoke for almost 2 hours about the whole affair. He closed with saying that every white house is covered in secrecy. That we citizens see about 2 % of the truth. It’s the 2% they WH want us to see….
but he went on. There are, however, many people who know 100% of what goes on. And sometimes you can get them to disclose. If that happens then the game changes.
That’s what happened with Nixon.
Woodward knows very well how it works.
Oh and thanks to all for the TWEETS. I’m not on Twitter but I appreciate the posts above.