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Bob Woodward on threat from White House staff: "...it makes me very uncomfortable to have the
CNN ^ | 2/27/13 | The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,

Posted on 02/27/2013 7:31:23 PM PST by Nachum

Today on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward told CNN that he has been threatened by White House staff over his budget cut challenge. Highlights from the interview are below; a full transcript will be posted on http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/sitroom.html.

MANDATORY CREDIT: CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer”

Highlights from Full Interview: THIS IS A RUSH FDCH TRANSCRIPT. IT MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. BOLDUAN: What do you make of the White House's response to your article?

WOODWARD: Well, I think they're confused. I think they've got this idea. I mean, they put out these long talking points and said, see, even Woodward's book reports that Speaker Boehner said, let's get $600 billion over ten years in revenue in the super committee. That's exactly right. That's not the sequester. And they've said - they have,as you know, I said, get somebody from the White House here, and we'll debate.

BLITZER: We invited the White House to send someone here, to debate this issue with you, and they declined.

WOODWARD: Why? Why? Because it's irrefutable; that's exactly what happened. I'm not saying this is a moving of the goalposts that was some criminal act or something like that, I'm just saying, that's –

BLITZER: But it's getting pretty nasty. Take us behind the scenes a little bit. The allegations being hurled against you right now.

WOODWARD: Well, I mean –

(Excerpt) Read more at cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; cnn; genesperling; partisanmediashills; reporters; sequester; woodward
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To: timestax
It's a love-hate thang with obozo. He was deserted by his father, yet he writes lovingly about his father. Love-Hate.
His mother pawned him off to be raised by grandparents..he speaks disrespectfully about his grandmother, and lovingly about his mother. Love-Hate. Oboma is mental, don't’ know the exact wording of his diagnosis, but he IS mental.
41 posted on 02/28/2013 2:09:12 AM PST by itssme
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To: Nachum
All in a days work for our radical neo-communists....what is so surprising....?

Alinksy tactics on display....
42 posted on 02/28/2013 2:48:35 AM PST by PigRigger (Donate to http://www.AdoptAPlatoon.org - The Troops have our front covered, let's guard their backs!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Nachum.
Bob Woodward on threat from White House staff: "...it makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, you're going to regret doing something that you believe in"
"We critical people are always being criticized." -- Lucy Van Pelt


43 posted on 02/28/2013 3:43:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Seizethecarp

That was exactly the incident I was thinking about. They saw the inherent danger of the attack on Fox. I’m not seeing Woodward get much support though. So it doesn’t look good.


44 posted on 02/28/2013 4:46:21 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: Nachum
The thought that Woodward will keep on going after the regime and the commie former journslists at nbc,cbs,abc, will stick with there guy is so funny my stomach hurts from laughing so much. All these guys are socialists/communists at best. Zero is the thrill down their leg dream come true. The thought they would go against him is delirious at best four out side.
45 posted on 02/28/2013 5:14:25 AM PST by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin our secret weapon)
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To: Nachum
And I'm still having a difficult time buying ammo.

5.56mm

46 posted on 02/28/2013 6:03:37 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Nachum

This makes me uncomfortable too. I don’t understand why all these libs keep coming out against Obama? From the beginning of time they have only wanted one party or at least their leaders have. I also don’t believe it is solely Hillary. She takes orders. That has been proven.


47 posted on 02/28/2013 7:56:03 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: StormEye

The media could, and I think will, turn on hussein because they have the power. Not him.


48 posted on 02/28/2013 7:57:19 AM PST by onedoug
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To: StormEye

I have no disagreement with your new analogy. It is basically true. However, as with the previous analogy, that of whores complaining when they are not paid, abused housewives occasionally decide that they have had it, and either leave or take matters into their own hands. Barack may just show up in the Oval Office one day, wife-beater undershirt on, cigarette in mouth, beer in one hand, and looking for someone to blame for his latest excess, and the little wifey - read mainstream media - isn’t there with blackened eye and dutiful look to satisfy him.

Again, we’ll see.


49 posted on 02/28/2013 9:01:55 AM PST by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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To: itssme
It's a love-hate thang with obozo. He was deserted by his father, yet he writes lovingly about his father. Love-Hate. His mother pawned him off to be raised by grandparents..he speaks disrespectfully about his grandmother, and lovingly about his mother. Love-Hate. Oboma is mental, don't’ know the exact wording of his diagnosis, but he IS mental.

No doubt about it. He is definitely mental.

50 posted on 02/28/2013 9:53:36 AM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
You are way oversimplfying it...he is EVIL...born EVIL...raised EVIL...HE IS EVIL...

You can say THAT again !As Evil as he can get. I would not even want to be in the same building that he was in. He's creepy evil !

51 posted on 02/28/2013 9:59:27 AM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
These Chicago thugs aren’t afraid of anyone. If the boot-lickers in the media do not wake up and band together over this, there will be nothing stopping Obama.

Perhaps they might want to remember a quote from a fellow journalist from another time:

"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
- Benjamin Franklin

52 posted on 02/28/2013 10:10:04 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: Belteshazzar
I have no disagreement with your new analogy. It is basically true. However, as with the previous analogy, that of whores complaining when they are not paid, abused housewives occasionally decide that they have had it, and either leave or take matters into their own hands. Barack may just show up in the Oval Office one day, wife-beater undershirt on, cigarette in mouth, beer in one hand, and looking for someone to blame for his latest excess, and the little wifey - read mainstream media - isn’t there with blackened eye and dutiful look to satisfy him.

But that's only if the mainstream media has no one to turn to. But wait, look over there! There is someone!


53 posted on 02/28/2013 10:17:30 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: sport; patriotsblood
Ever so slowly, the media is beginning to realize that there is a monster in the White House.

That I donot believe.

I don't believe that either, but I do believe the press is feeling a credibility squeeze. They have no problem with repeating The Won's lies, but they also know that even low-information voters will start to scoff and laugh at them when the lies move from the sublime to the ridiculous. I'm sure the collective thinking of the presstitutes is "How stupid do you believe my readers think I am?"

The press will never "wake up" because they've been awake since the beginning. They've been willing accomplices. But The Won is starting to punish them for it, and that just might break the spell for some of them.

54 posted on 02/28/2013 10:34:03 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: COBOL2Java

Yup. Who better to console one abused wife than another?


55 posted on 02/28/2013 12:51:49 PM PST by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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