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Related: About this forumBob Woodward: 'Very Senior' White House Official Told Me I'd 'Regret' Sequester Comments (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/bob-woodward-white-house-threatened-sequester_n_2777681.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl2%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D276459Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)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. ... Youre 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)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.]'
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(12,769 posts)asjr
(10,479 posts)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.