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Champ: Woodward will regret it
 Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.
| Bob: just pretend he's Nixon if that makes it easier for you... |
"I think they're confused," Woodward said of the White House's pushback on his reporting.
| No, I think they're worried. Bob is pointing out how under-dressed Champ is... |
Earlier today on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Woodward ripped into Obama in what has become an ongoing feud between the veteran Washington Post journalist and the White House. Woodward said Obama was showing a "kind of madness I haven't seen in a long time" for a decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns.
"Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, 'Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget document?'" Woodward said on MSNBC.
"Or George W. Bush saying, 'You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need?'" Or even Bill Clinton saying, 'You know, I'm not going to attack Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters,' ... because of some budget document?"
Woodward began stirring controversy last weekend, when he called out Obama for what he said was "moving the goal posts" on the sequester by requesting that revenue be part of a deal to avert it.
| It's a measure of how deep in the tank the media is that even Woodward can't move them to start looking at Obama with anything than abject adulation. Then again, it may be a generational difference in that the younger journalists are happy to go along with Champ since they believe what he believes. Ace points out the third possibility: that Woodward can get away with this since he's the hero of Watergate and has a lifetime job at the Post, whereas the young journalists have to make a living and can't afford to get a negative reference from the folks at the White House. |
Posted by: Steve White 2013-02-28 |
