Uh Oh! Looks Like Bob Woodward Will Have A Few Regrets
Okay, so this happened:
Longtime Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward is taking on the White House, saying in multiple interviews that the administration essentially threatened him to try to get him not to write a story.
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“I mean, 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. “And even though we don’t look at it that way, you do look at it that way. And I think if Barack Obama knew that was part of the communication’s strategy — let’s hope it’s not a strategy, but it’s a tactic that somebody’s employed, and said, look, we don’t go around trying to say to reporters, if you, in an honest way, present something we don’t like, that, you know, you’re going to regret this. And just — it’s Mickey Mouse.”
And then all hell broke loose… especially on the Right.
And then the emails came to light.
And then came the regrets…
“Looks like we were played,” The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis wrote Thursday morning.
Erick Erickson tweets: Ok wow. Finally read the email to Woodward. I must now move to the “not a threat” camp.
Brit Hume tweets: On one hand, only Woodward can say if he felt threatened by WH email. On the other, hard to imagine feeling threatened by Gene Sperling.
Hot Air: The fact that the “threat” came in the context of an apology seemed unusual even last night; as it is, if the leaked e-mail is accurate, Sperling actually apologized three separate times for getting loud and prefaced the “regret” part with “as a friend.” If he’s threatening him, rather than simply trying to steer him away from a wrong/unhelpful claim, it’s a threat so veiled I can’t see it. But stay tuned; Woodward’s set to appear on Hannity’s show tonight to address this, assuming he doesn’t so so elsewhere earlier in the day.
Bet Bob Woodward is having a few regrets. Woodward really did take trolling to a new level.
Tags: Bob Woodward, Trolls
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Woodward is now reduced to bleating that he NEVER actually used the word “threat” or the word “threatened” to describe the wedgie he suffered at the hands of a normally mild-mannered Gene Sperling.
BTW, Woodward didn’t have to use the words. He had Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen, the right-wing-biased head honchos of Politico, putting those words in his mouth. So now Woodward has deniability.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/woodward-at-war-88212.html?hp=t1_3
Woodward took a stab at locking up some wingnut welfare and fell woefully short.
It’s a shame. The guy who brought down Nixon decided to go all Teabaggy.
What is really amazing about this is that while Woodward is trying to create and sell copy, he showed on his Morning Joe appearance that he doesn’t even get how government spending works. He made a comparison to Reagan who he claimed would not have let a budget document stand in the way of deploying a carrier. Which, of course is Bullshit. The budget document is a budget authorization which gives the President the permission to spend money. And he claimed that GWB wouldn’t have let money stand in the way of invading Iraq. Which — is why we are fighting over the sequester now, right?
“And he claimed that GWB wouldn’t have let money stand in the way of invading Iraq.”
Jeebus.
Nice work Woodward. Your reputation now isn’t worth an Arizona Peso.
Bob Woodward has been a court stenographer for years, trading objectivity for access. His problem is that this White House has decided it doesn’t need people like Woodward carrying its water, which leaves him without material for his next doorstop-sized tome.
Woodward drank his own cool-aid years ago and washed away any objectivity or ethics he once had. For him it became all about access. Now he’s just a sorry old man on the cocktail circuit. And we all know how alcohol kills brain cells — sheesh I’m missing a few million myself.
The good news is obama does not allow all these attacks from the right to affect his presidential decision making. I am sure he felt deep in hjs heart that releasing illegal alien prisoners in arizona is some how going to be good for the country
Thanks Woodward for getting rid of Nixon, but your career as an ethical and honest journalist is over. You are now a proven liar, and you have a bias in all your reporting on the Obama Administration since they did not grant you the all-access to write one of your books that other Presidents have given you.
So now all you are is a biased liar. A perfect fit for Fox News.
You guys turning on Woodward is like watching a horror movie. It’s both entertaining and scary at the same time. I’m thinking Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
I may have to set up my Obama shrine again.
By running to Fox Noise he became a Fox Friend and got Hanney, Mark Levin and Savage ( aka as Mike Wiener his real name) to take to the airwaves with the big lie. Just why MSNBC keeps having this jerk on is beyond me.
Even if you Don’t like Bob Woodword, what Gene Sperling did was wrong.
I’m guessing Rusty didn’t actually read the email.
Woodward’s “Jump the Shark” moment. See his Hannity visit AND his Axelrod exchange this AM on MSNBC. He’s trying to get everyone to pay attention to himself. You caught Nixon’s garbage, you should have allowed yourself to be an “elder statesman” of reporting instead of trying to be the story.