Bob Woodward says he was told by a “very senior” White House official that he would regret his comments on the sequester being Obama’s idea.
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This EVIL, UNLAWFUL, DISGRACEFUL, Bunch of Crooks & LIARS need to shut their Lying Mouths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011 – There are videos where Carney –
Obama’s mouth piece stated that the sequester was the idea of Obama and his staff back in 2011. there is evidence all over which takes only a seconds to search to see where the idea of this sequester comes from, and now Obama claims it was the GOP’s idea. They knew way back then that it was a bad deal and the democrats wanted it to fail and then try to pin it on the other party. They know they can do it, because largely, their supporters are either misinformed or mostly have IQ’s in the single digits by which its simple to manipulate their simple minds.
I heard Woodward declare he liked the heat but was he threatened outright by the administration or was the guy saying Woodward’s historical interpetation would be inaccurate and therefore regretful?
The Faker in the WH is such a vindictive putz it would be easy to say the threat was one of retribution…
Woodward needs another DEEP THROAT to come forward to hang this foreign Muslim communist traitors ass to the wall.
o’VOMIT MORE AND MORE SHOWING HIS TRUE DICTATORIAL COLOR ISN’T HE.
My fervent prayer today and everyday since this traitor has become our president is that God will expose his lies and his true colors (no pun intendet) and through this exposition will open the blinded eyes of the people and cause them to repent from this ungodly abomination that we now have bent on the destruction of our beloved USA. Remember, pray and stand united!
Here’s what makes me angry. He won’t say who delivered the threat. I personally would like to know. If he can’t tell all then don’t say anything at all. Made me sick to my stomach when during an interview he was asked who it was. Said he wouldn’t say who it was. This is the kind of stuff that perpetrates the criminality.
Tell us who it is, Mr. Woodward. We’ll help you get the word out FAST!
Betta, he did say who it was but I forget who he said it to. The guy’s name is Sperling or something like that.
Woodward is a POS, too. He was once an ‘investigative’ reporter. If you look into his Deep Throat nonsense, you’ll find much innuendo and fabrication. Of course, he’s a toasted postie. [WP POS]
I hope Woodward buries Obama like he buried Nixon. I would back Woodward 120%.
He’s the only real tiger in Journalism today. Good Luck Mr. Woorward
@oldnavyplane
He’s had nearly five years to work on this. Don’t expect much from him. He’s a has-been with his eyes shut and his mouth closed.
Are you telling me that this LAME BRAINED IDIOT in the white house is now acting like a DICTATOR telling people what they can and can not say or ask in a National News Conference ?????????????
Time for Woofward to do to OBONZO – the magnificnet one – what he did to President Noxon?????????
That would be out the door for OBONZO.
Woodward will bury this TOWN CLOWN OBONZO – BRAIN .
Not sure how true it is, but I also heard on the radio today that Lanny Davis has also been threatened by the WH. No details were given, though.
They’re just starting to come out of the woodwork. When they start turning on their own, that’s very good news for our country. I knew, in time, they would implode. Put your seat belts on, gonna be a wild ride.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/28/national-journal-chief-a-senior-wh-official-got-so-belligerent-with-me-i-had-to-drop-him-as-a-source/
http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/flashback-white-house-boasted-we-control-news-media/
In 1991, David Rockefeller thanked the NY Times, the Washington Post and other media for “keeping silent for over forty years” the plans of the elite and world bankers for a one world government.
If it weren’t for the Internet,enabling us to share information, we would long ago have been under the dominion of world masters. Now we must be on our guard that the administration does not shut us out of it.
This guy said that a very senior person in the White House threatened him. Doesn’t that sound like Obama — the most senior person in the Whtie House?
“What kind of sub-human numb-nut would not know we needed security in Benghazi 24/7?” <~ Ted Nugent Audio http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/the-motor-city-mad-man-ted-nugent-calls-for-obamas-impeachment/ …
I can think of a few, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, “Obozo the Great” and countless other Shills and crawling Minions.
I say anyone who is too afraid to speak up to him, therefore endorsing everything he says and does, have more than a few screws loose. Feinstein, Pelosi, Waters, Clinton, Jarrett, Boxer, Jackson Lee, and the like, so ashamed to be same gender as them. We can thank Clinton also ~> From Michael Savage’s book The Enemy Within ~> ” For 8 dark years, the Demoncats handed the keys to the country to any and all. Clinton, the most scandalous president in our history, let the dregs of humanity invade America. It wasn’t give us your tired and your poor, under Clinton, it was give me your loafers and your free-loaders.”
Right, and the beat goes on with Obozo the Clown.
I hope Bob Woodward puts out feelers on this practice of threats, he will find out that he is not the only one!
This administration operates on the boarders of mafia rules, maybe their own above the law attitude will take them down!
My feeling is it’s going to be a multiple number of people, libs/progessives included. They have to be part of the take down so that the blind will see the truth.
I believe we are going to eventually find out that most of congress, along with the White House, has played a very large part in what has happened to this country’s loss of the people’s rights and the loss of their freedom. We need to blame both the democrat and the republican presidents because they have all been complicit in the possible downfall of the United States. I believe many of them have been in the back pocket of the rich bankers who are pushing for the “New World Order” and Obama thinks he is the “great one” who can be it’s “ruler” I truly believe the only thing we can do now is pray and fight the fight of our lives!!! If we don’t fight, this country will become a communist ruled country and it is the last country in the world that can be described as free!!! There is no where else to go!!!
PLEASE, pick up those phones, send those e-mails, send faxes to your senators and reps. Senator Ted Cruz’s office is being inundated with calls. His aides have never seen this volume. He is member of Senate Judiciary Committee and it’s imperative he meet with Orly Taitz, Esq. She’ll be in Washington next Tuesday, March 5.
E-mail him: info@tedcruz.org ; schedule@tedcruz.org or call: 512-637-8777, 202-224-5922
We cannot sit idle and do nothing. Our freedom is at stake. Here is Orly’s contact information:
Orly Taitz, Esq.
29839 Santa Margarita Pkwy, Ste 100
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688.
Contact Dr. Taitz at orlytaitz@hushmail.com or orly.taitz@gmail.com.
Telephone: 949-683-5411.
Thanks, in advance, for any help you can give.
THIS IS A MUST LISTEN AND VIEW (APP. 1 HOUR)
PAUL IREY, a document expert with fifty years of experience claims he can prove that Barack Obama’s Long Form Birth Certificate Is Fake. AT THIS POINT IT IS IRRELEVANT WHERE THE LOSER WAS BORN, THE BC IS A FORGERY, THE CRIME IS A FELONY, A FELON CANNOT HOLD OFFICE OF PRESIDENCY.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/markgillar/2013/02/28/50-year-document-expert-obamas-birth-certificate-is-fake
Ben Carson, M.D., and Sean Hannity, March 1, 2013. This man is phenominal. “The demagoguery would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Q72dUw2QQ
By Kathleen Parker, Published: March 1 (Washington Post)
“To the world beyond the Beltway, it might not mean much that Bob Woodward of the famed Watergate duo went public with his recent White House run-in.
This would be an oversight.
It also may not mean much that the White House press corps got teed off when they weren’t allowed access to President Obama as he played golf with Tiger Woods. This, too, would be an oversight.
Though not comparable — one appeared to be a veiled threat aimed at one of the nation’s most respected journalists and the other a minor blip in the scheme of things — both are part of a pattern of behavior by the Obama administration that suggests not just thin skin but a disregard for the role of the press and a gradual slide toward a state media.
This is where oversight can become dangerous.
Understandably, everyday Americans may find this discussion too inside baseball to pay much mind. Why can’t the president play a little golf without a press gaggle watching? As for Woodward, it’s not as though the White House was threatening to bust his kneecaps.
Add to these likely sentiments the fact that Americans increasingly dislike the so-called mainstream media, sometimes for good reason. Distrust of media, encouraged by alternative media seeking to enhance their own standing, has become a tool useful to the very powers the Fourth Estate was constitutionally endowed to monitor. When the president can bypass reporters to reach the public, it is not far-fetched to imagine a time — perhaps now? — when the state controls the message.
To recap: Woodward recently wrote a commentary for The Post that placed the sequester debacle on Obama’s desk and accused the president of “moving the goal posts” by asking for more tax increases.
Before his piece was published, Woodward called the White House to tell officials it was coming. A shouting match ensued between Woodward and Gene Sperling, Obama’s economic adviser, followed by an e-mail in which Sperling said that Woodward “will regret staking out that claim.”
Though the tone was conciliatory and Sperling apologized for raising his voice, the message nonetheless caused Woodward to bristle.
Again, Woodward’s kneecaps are probably safe, but the challenge to his facts, and therefore to his character, was unusual, given Woodward’s stature. And, how, by the way, might Woodward come to regret it? Sperling’s words, though measured, could be read as: “You’ll never set foot in this White House again.”
When reporters lose access to the White House, it isn’t about being invited to the annual holiday party. It’s about having access to the most powerful people on the planet as they execute the nation’s business.
Inarguably, Woodward has had greater access to the White House than any other journalist in town. Also inarguably, he would survive without it. He has filled a library shelf with books about the inner workings of this and other administrations, the fact of which makes current events so remarkable.
Woodward, almost 70, is Washington’s Reporter Emeritus. His facts stand up to scrutiny. His motivations withstand the test of objectivity. Sperling obviously assumed that Woodward wouldn’t take offense at the suggestion that he not only was wrong but was also endangering his valuable proximity to power.
He assumed, in other words, that Woodward would not do his job. This was an oversight.
This is no tempest in a teapot but rather the leak in the dike. Drip by drip, the Obama administration has demonstrated its intolerance for dissent and its contempt for any who stray from the White House script. Yes, all administrations are sensitive to criticism, and all push back when such criticism is deemed unfair or inaccurate. But no president since Richard Nixon has demonstrated such overt contempt for the messenger. And, thanks to technological advances in social media, Obama has been able to bypass traditional watchdogs as no other president has.
More to the point, the Obama White House is, to put it politely, fudging as it tries to place the onus of the sequester on Congress. And, as has become customary, officials are using the Woodward spat to distract attention. As Woodward put it: “This is the old trick . . . of making the press . . . the issue, rather than what the White House has done here.”
Killing the messenger is a time-honored method of controlling the message, but we have already spilled that blood. And the First Amendment’s protection of a free press, the purpose of which is to check power and constrain government’s ability to dictate the lives of private citizens, was no accident.”
Excerpt: “I had a young reporter asking tough, important questions of an Obama Cabinet secretary,” says one DC veteran. “She was doing her job, and they were trying to bully her. In an e-mail, they called her the vilest names — bitch, c–t, a–hole.” He complained and was told the matter would be investigated: “They were hemming and hawing, saying, ‘We’ll look into it.’ Nothing happened.”
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/03/03/The-Floodgates-Open-More-Accounts-of-White-House-Thuggery-Emerge?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter