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Former Newsweek Editor: Robert Gibbs Sent Me 'Abusive Email' In '08 For Article I Wrote About Obama
NewsBusters ^ | 2-28-2013 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 02/28/2013 2:43:25 PM PST by smoothsailing

February 28, 2013

Former Newsweek Editor: Robert Gibbs Sent Me 'Abusive Email' In '08 For Article I Wrote About Obama

Noel Sheppard

It appears with each passing day another member of the media is coming out to share unpleasant treatment at the hands of Barack Obama and Company.

On Thursday, in an appearance on NewsMaxTV's Steve Malzberg Show, former Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter said that in 2008, Robert Gibbs sent him an "abusive email" as a result of an article he wrote about Obama and disinvited him to a dinner the candidate was holding for reporters in Berlin (choppy audio follows with transcript and commentary):

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; genesperling; partisanmediashills; sequester
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1 posted on 02/28/2013 2:43:34 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Looks like it took a true journalist to break the ice.


2 posted on 02/28/2013 2:45:47 PM PST by jersey117
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To: smoothsailing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60loeoblu0M

It is too late for the pebbles to vote.... The avalanche has begun...


3 posted on 02/28/2013 2:51:18 PM PST by GraceG
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To: jersey117
These offended gerbalists are coming out of the woodwork. This is what? Insulted Journalist # 4 or 5? In the last 24 hours. Ealier today, I predicted this would happen.

 

To: BenLurkin

Woodward, Attkisson, Davis and Fournier. That’s four so far in the last 24 hours.

I guess the real question is how many gerbalists HAVE NOT been threatened by the White Hut?

46 posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:34:24 AM by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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4 posted on 02/28/2013 2:52:10 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: jersey117

I think the “me too” choir is just starting to sing. lol


5 posted on 02/28/2013 2:53:02 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: jersey117

I’m not so sure Woodward could truly be classified as a “true journalist,” however I would acknowledge that he has fraudulently worn the mantle of “true journalist” for many years.

So with that reservation, I agree with you. It took someone of large stature on the left to start the ball rolling.


6 posted on 02/28/2013 2:55:28 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: smoothsailing

The attack puppies of the press?


7 posted on 02/28/2013 2:58:26 PM PST by x
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To: smoothsailing

Obama’s people are very upset for good reason. It would appear that there is a growing realization in the journalistic community that Obama is a dangerous, petulant narcissist. His bizarre policies are likely to lead to a debacle. The MSM have acted as syncophants. Now some wish to get ahead of the curve and salvage what they can of their tattered reputations. First Woodward, then Lannie Davis and now Alter. Hopefully it is the beginning of the end for Obama.


8 posted on 02/28/2013 2:59:17 PM PST by allendale
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To: allendale

I hope you’re right. There are indeed some reporters and journalists out there with integrity. The trouble is... their bosses - the networks and the press agencies - will always continue to kiss Nobama’s butt.


9 posted on 02/28/2013 3:03:12 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: smoothsailing
Whether these abuses are as severe as some make them out to be or not no one should be surprised when the president himself abuses members of the U.S. Supreme Court publicly in a SOTU address.

Obama and most of his appointees have very little class.

10 posted on 02/28/2013 3:05:51 PM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: smoothsailing
The Obama administration duking it out with the MSM?

Makes me wanna git some popcorn ready.

11 posted on 02/28/2013 3:06:21 PM PST by Slyfox (Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness -G Wash.)
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To: smoothsailing
Lol, isn't this something we've wished for? Gibbs admitted he was told not to mention 'drones', so he's 'leaking' info too.


12 posted on 02/28/2013 3:06:48 PM PST by potlatch
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To: allendale

You know in a perverse way there is a very big up side to this.
All those swallowers of the Zero koolaid are going to want to be special too. The only way to do that is to cross the Fascist in Charge.

Expect the Wookie to hit the Sunday Shows soon throwing
White Hut Aides under the bus!


13 posted on 02/28/2013 3:06:58 PM PST by VRWCarea51
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To: potlatch
I like the graphic! :o)

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14 posted on 02/28/2013 3:16:57 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: allendale

Andrea Mitchell came out with some unkind words.

White House taking a beating over this. As well they should.


15 posted on 02/28/2013 3:20:08 PM PST by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com/)
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To: jazusamo

They’re all from the same thug school. Bunch of dirty nose pickers just like Odungheap.


16 posted on 02/28/2013 3:20:48 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

LOLOL, thanks SS!!


17 posted on 02/28/2013 3:22:44 PM PST by potlatch
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To: allendale
It would appear that there is a growing realization in the journalistic community that Obama is a dangerous, petulant narcissist.

One thing about the press and obama that fascinates me is the silence of the real journalists.

They still exist. Hard to say how many are left, but I find their silence intriguing.

Humans, especially real journalists, don't like unsolved mysteries to stay unsolved or unanswered questions to stay unanswered.

No matter what kind of journalist one might be, one must admit that there is an incomprehensibly long list of unanswered questions about obama that we are not allowed to look at.

Humans also don't like being played and from the ironic hope of his NObel peace prize to the predictable hysteria about the sequester, at some point real journalists get tired of this and, afraid of where these things lead, tell the world.

And we don't like being lied to, especially by people we put into power, like we and the world were lied to about what went down and why at Benghazi. That's dangerous and it came after Fast and Furious! But the only sound from the one stream media is the silence of the lambs.

It's all there for a real journalist to be the next Woodward, but only one old (apologies to AARP) Woodward in sight...and look what they are doing to him.

18 posted on 02/28/2013 3:27:52 PM PST by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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The attack puppies of the press?

LOL. They look sorta shocked to me, like they can't believe there's gambling going on or something. ;)

19 posted on 02/28/2013 3:28:55 PM PST by smoothsailing
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Awesome image. I love it! -lol-


20 posted on 02/28/2013 3:34:09 PM PST by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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