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Woodward claims White House threatened him
From Legend to Laughing Stock: Bob Woodward Cites Bogus 'Threat,' Calls Obama 'Nixonian'
Exclusive: The Woodward, Sperling emails revealed
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sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)Frances
(8,545 posts)If he can't properly interpret his own words in an email he wrote, how can we trust anything that he has written?
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)thinks his is the only truth. Get lost Bobbyboy your have lost your percieved luster.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)...knows that every one will believe him. After all, he dropped a dime on Nixon when his memory was better.
ashling
(25,771 posts)Robert Redford
Demeter
(85,373 posts)That "joke" about sending a drone after the Jonas Brothers was the clearest example of reincarnation.
What does it take to get some version of reality around here?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Look at this....
Some things never change...
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Our leaders... forced to go through humiliating rituals to worship our interdimensional overlords!
Oh My Gawd!
Perhaps Harvey the Pookah can intervene. If not, we're all doomed, doomed, I tell ya!
I've been telling folks all along the space program was really for them, but did you listen? Nooo!
MADem
(135,425 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Nixon was the first to include the bunny in the festivities--not sure if that's the same bunny, but if it is, that thing has gotta be foul! I imagine it's hot as hell, and hard to clean, too!
WH Easter Egg roll fun facts: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:JomcEFZtOmsJ:www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/2012_Easter_Egg_Roll_Fact_Sheet.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShkBdY1FXwXxQiWHZJ7VPlxEWNVXNnxpMFfXv7hKfCS3bHXMTm2aZySJnrZoWb7wdbUHCvcpOJ6YBP7BKBcpDo0xra8IgecN2xjeb2KtXQY4pwsqcW1Tlxyky2WvdcM67QhbY_r&sig=AHIEtbSkDKTFIZQL2HWSX5WAYVHVEINLHA
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Here's a link to the pdf that works:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/2012_Easter_Egg_Roll_Fact_Sheet.pdf
Also this on the origin:
http://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/05/lincoln-sons-concern-for-disabled-boy-starts-white-house-easter-egg-roll/
Lots of old pics here too:
http://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/04/a-day-for-dogs-other-white-house-easter-egg-roll-memories/
MADem
(135,425 posts)But if you found another, the more the merrier!!!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Someone put it in perspective...
MADem
(135,425 posts)Mister Bunny has the glasses, and I'm sure Porgie wouldn't want to snuggle with the BOY Bunny! Wouldn't be "manly!!!!"
The 2nd picture does the "Thousand Words" thing with aplomb....
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Woodward turned around and said Obama should just ignore the sequester and act under his power as Commander in Chief by ignoring the law (I presume he would advise the same thing on the debt ceiling). Now just who is being Nixonian again?
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Woodward admits that "I talked extensively with all involved" then took sides regarding who was telling the truth. There is only one truth and Sperling is just setting the record straight with Woodward. A good journalist would know that the way to verify a charge of "moving the goal posts" would be to review what was actually being said at the time versus what is being said today. Woodward failed Journalism 101 by accepting one side of the argument without benefit of doing the grunt work of verification of facts. This is in fact yellow journalism being practiced by Woodward in this exchange.
patrice
(47,992 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)Sorry 'bout this, I get punny when I'm tired.
Must go walk the dogs; see you later!
MADem
(135,425 posts)At least it's not cold tonight and the snow is melting so it isn't a hazardous game!
Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)He's a fool.
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jpak
(41,757 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)tweeted by, James Downie ?@jamescdownie
I think my bosses would frown on me offering a job for one tweet, but... RT @michaelbd: Derp Throat
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022438534#op
I'm also questioning Woodward's legacy. 'Derp throat.' That's gonna leave a mark...
at the man 'who brought down a President' and has now been brought down to the level of a toady of the Republican smear machine:
New Conservative Hero Bob Woodward Has an Obama Threat Level Problem
http://news.yahoo.com/conservative-hero-bob-woodward-obama-threat-level-problem-040141997.html
At the same page, this link from 2011:
Obama Has Been Scandal-Free for 28 Months
Bored with Obama's (relatively) drama-free presidency so far? According to Brendan Nyhan, of the University of Michigan, the president is due for his first big scandal pretty soon. The political scientist and blogger defines a political scandal as "a widespread elite perception of misbehavior whose occurrence is also influenced by political and media context." Then he took a look at the front page of The Washington Post:
I collect data for 19772008 (the period for which Post archives are available in electronic form). Controversies concerning the president and executive branch were defined as being called scandals if they were described as such (i.e., scandal) in the reporters voice or the headline. From this set of articles, I determine the first time the Post published a front-page story focusing on the controversy in question. This restriction helps identify the most salient controversies at the point at which they become highly prominent and generate widespread coverage...
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/05/obamas-34-months-without-scandal/38197/
May be why Woodward is dying to make one up. As far as waiting for one, Andrew Sullivan said:
It couldn't be because he is not corrupt and that that standard has not trickled down?
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2011/05/26/the-coming-obama-scandal/
Give it up, Bob, your ship has sailed...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022438534#post2
1983law
(213 posts)Also says he was threatened.
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)It's a conspiracy, I tells ya!
Cha
(297,188 posts)he's wearing a different crown. rofl..thanks for that, EarlG..
Cha
(297,188 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Why aren't all our reporters more sycophantic?
Geez.
Jumpin Jack Fletch
(80 posts)Obama ain't Nixon, the Sequester isn't Watergate, and you are not the reporter you were 40 years ago.
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)Right?
EV_Ares
(6,587 posts)anything he writes.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)But he did get that email from Sperling revealed. You know, the one where Sperling says:
"The idea that the sequester was to force both sides to go back to try at a big or grand barain with a mix of entitlements and revenues (even if there were serious disagreements on composition) was part of the DNA of the thing from the start."
And again, later on:
"There may have been big disagreements over rates and ratios but that it was supposed to be replaced by entitlements and revenues of some form is not controversial."
Has the President backed away from any of that?
FairWinds
(1,717 posts)the Prez SHOULD back away from it - totally!! Cut the huge bucks for Empire maintainment, or outrageous corporate welfare BEFORE you cut Granny's monthly SS check.
MADem
(135,425 posts)pam4water
(2,916 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)This man has made a living using and understanding words.
I am leaning toward simply lied.