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I assume Dems are so angelic. Bouton drinking the kool aid.
I assume Dems are so angelic. Bouton drinking the kool aid.
ChumpDumper Iq is limited.
Dubya's administration was just as bad, but ultimately irrelevant to this thread, tbh....
lol impeachment
my mom used to tell me that I would regret certain choices I made as a teen. she was right.
I certainly didn't read the email from Sperling as much more than an apology, tbh. The 'threat' quote seems to be saying the same thing as predicting to someone that if they publicly espouse a position that is verifiably false, they may end up with egg on their face.
That is how I interpret it, in the context of the entire email.
Woodward is pretty arrogant. The Obama administration is pretty arrogant.
They are all drama queens, imo.
That's kind of how I feel. I do like how Woodward is going after the Obama admin like he did the Bush admin. Taking Nixon down like he did probably gave him a pretty big complex. But anyone who thinks they can be president are in the same category. All egos. But in this situation, it works to our (the people) advantage to have someone who just wants to go after presidents, regardless of party affiliation.
Really, the worst thing "the white house" could do is not talk to him anymore. Really didn't stop him when "the white house" did it last time, though.
"you will regret it" those words coming from a person in power is a threat.
Only an idiot would disagree here.
had those same words come from a homeless on the street, then I'd say the guy is a dramaqueen
only an idiot would think that guy has more power than woodward.
Definitely a threat. Threats can be to people's access in terms of a journalist.
Who said he did? It's irrelevant. One is a journalist, the other what a person who is serving office? that is an official position of power
If that's all it was, it's not threadworthy tbh. This happens all the time.
murder happens all the time too. Is that not threadworthy too?
If this guy none of us have ever heard of murdered Bob Woodward, it would be threadworthy.
And yeah, when you think about it, most murders aren't really threadworthy.
True, just not to Bob Woodward.
This doesn't really happen all the time...
Another member of the Washington political media stepped forward Thursday to claim he was threatened by the Obama White House, shortly after the White House denied reports that an adviser threatened famed Watergate journalist Bob Woodward. The latest claim comes from Lanny Davis, who served as counsel to former President Bill Clinton and later went on to write a column for The Washington Times. In a radio interview on WMAL, Davis said that a "senior Obama White House official" once called his editor at the Times and said that if the paper continued to run his columns, "his reporters would lose their credentials."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...#ixzz2MFC0e3BY
Definitely did with the last president.Are you sure?
Bob Woodward has gone Full Breitbart. And everybody knows you never go Full Breitbart.
THU FEB 28, 2013 AT 08:53 AM PST
Woodward Goes Full Breitbart
by Troubadour
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...Full-BreitbartRight around the time a decade ago when Bob Woodward started portraying psychotic puppet-emperor George W. Bush (who one might easily think was the inspiration for Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones) as some kind of bold, iconoclastic visionary rather than the cartoonishly cruel and vindictive parasite his every word and deed advertised, I began to doubt that Mr. Woodward was indeed the intrepid paragon of journalistic virtue and truth-telling indicated by Robert Redford in All the President's Men.
Now with recent events, I'm forced to wonder if maybe Carl Bernstein had been the brains of that particular operation, and Woodward just some random hack on the paper who had been assigned to work with him. Given what I've seen of this guy in my lifetime, the idea that his role in breaking Watergate was some kind of real-life Being There begins to seem increasingly plausible. Seriously, look up Bernstein's resume since Watergate and compare it with Woodward's - it's not even close. One is a journalistic ninja, and the other is the guy who wrote four incredibly charitable contemporary books about the Bush regime with its full cooperation and permission before being involved in the Plame affair.
Well, I guess he's not done with...doing whatever the it is he does. Because now, as noted on the Front Page, Woodward has publicly interpreted an innocuous email conversation with a White House official as containing ominous threats and intimidation meant to silence journalism. The FP piece does well enough showing the fact that the claim is complete bull , but coming as it does so close on the heels of Woodward's unfavorable comparison of Obama with (you guessed it) George W. Bush just makes it that much more egregious and disgraceful. He conjured this nonsense out of thin air while defending a murdering, torturing, psychotic dictator who spent every single day stomping his foot in the face of this country.
No...I'm absolutely positive it didn't it the Bush WH. So you are saying in the past five years.
Do you think it does?
I didn't even know dailykos was still around...
http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/.../post_939.htmlJune 28, 2007
Reporter's press pass revoked by Bush staff
WPRI-TV, Channel 12 reporter Jarrod Holbrook had his White House press pass snatched today after he shouted “Mr. President” twice as President Bush greeted Air and Army National Guardsmen gathered on the tarmac at Quonset airport in North Kingstown.
A member of the president’s entourage pointed at Holbrook after he first tried to get Bush’s attention. The man then ripped the pass from Holbrook’s belt after he shouted to the president, who was less then 10 feet away, again.
Holbrook said afterward that he just wanted to ask Bush how he enjoyed his visit to Rhode Island. Members of the media were not told they could not ask the president questions.
Whoops.
http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2007...ntial-revoked/
The Washington Post’s Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts write about NBC affiliate (and sometimes MSNBC) reporter Steve Handelsman getting his White House press credentials yanked for three weeks…
On the day of June 5, the execs and an NBC intern were cleared to enter the White House, where they watched Handelsman broadcast live from the lawn, then accompanied him to the almost-finished new briefing room and upper press office. While standing near press sec Tony Snow’s office, they caught the eye of the Secret Service officer guarding the Oval Office, who indicated they could come down the hall, where they chatted and stared into the empty office (President Bush was in Prague) for less than a minute.
Beware, unsuspecting gawkers! Turns out those few crucial steps are considered a no-press zone, although Handelsman (and plenty of others) has walked it many times since the Reagan administration. Another Secret Service officer spotted the group and filed a report; the tour was deemed “unauthorized,” resulting in the suspension for Handelsman, whose pass was reinstated Monday.
Whoops.
Semantic argument to follow.
Woodward's four Bush books were pretty anti Bush. If you saw how he talked to Rove, and how he talks about Bush in all the liberal shows when he wrote those books, he didn't personally like the guy.
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