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Bob Woodward: 'Very Senior' White House Official Told Me I'd 'Regret' Sequester Comments (VIDEO) (Original Post) elleng Feb 2013 OP
UPDATE: Woodward's Claim Falls Flat Tx4obama Feb 2013 #1
Thanks, Tx4. elleng Feb 2013 #2
+1 nt Live and Learn Feb 2013 #4
I've always considered Woodward a "one hit wonder". I know he asjr Feb 2013 #5
Woodward is a hack and should just go away... Drunken Irishman Feb 2013 #3

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
1. UPDATE: Woodward's Claim Falls Flat
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 03:13 AM
Feb 2013


Bob Woodward, Obama Aide Spar, Causing Confusion Over Definition Of 'Regret'

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In that email, the aide wrote: “I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today. ... You’re focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. … I think you will regret staking out that claim.”

Somehow, Woodward misread genuine concern for his journalistic reputation for something darker and weirder...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/woodward-obama-aide_n_2778007.html



p.s. The whole article on the link above explains a bunch.

elleng

(130,974 posts)
2. Thanks, Tx4.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 03:18 AM
Feb 2013

Didn't think much of the whole thing, but had to 'share'.

'Still, this all raises a question: when Bob Woodward reads emails from the White House, do the words in his head sound like they're being spoken aloud by Edward G. Robinson in the Bugs Bunny cartoons?

[UPDATE: Ben Smith and Josh Marshall say the "Obama aide" in question is Gene Sperling. Sperling is the 54-year old lawyer and economic adviser, who is currently serving as the Director of the National Economic Council, and has hitherto never been known as anyone a normal human adult would have any reason to feel physically threatened by.]'

asjr

(10,479 posts)
5. I've always considered Woodward a "one hit wonder". I know he
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:03 AM
Feb 2013

has written a great deal but his attitude of Look at me, I'm really somebody comes across each time there is some hint of trouble he needs to fix. He got lucky with Watergate but he can't ride that rug much longer.

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