White House threatens Woodward: You will regret this
2/28/13
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“I can’t believe they would go after Woodward,” Glenn said on radio this morning. “Remember when I was on Fox, and I said, ‘Who is going to be the next Woodward and Bernstein?’ Turns out, it’s Woodward – except he still refuses to really take a bow.”
During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday, Woodward explained that the President is displaying a “kind of madness I haven’t seen in a long time” for citing looming budget cuts as his reason for not deploying an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf.
Woodward went on to do an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN later that afternoon, in which he explained the White House is not happy with his characterization of President Obama. Below is an excerpt from the interview:
BLITZER: Take this behind-the-scenes a little bit, the allegations being hurled against you right now.
WOODWARD: Well, I mean.
BLITZER: YouÂ’re used to this kind of stuff.
WOODWARD: I am.
BLITZER: Share with our viewers what is going on between you and the White House.
WOODWARD: They’re not happy at all and some people kind of said, ‘Look we don’t see eye to eye on this.’ They never really said though – afterwards, they said, ‘This is factually wrong,’ and it was said to me in an e-mail by a top White House…
BLITZER: What was said?
WOODWARD: It was said very clearly, ‘you will regret doing this.’
BLITZER: Who said that?
WOODWARD: Well, IÂ’m not going to say.
BLITZER: Was it a senior person?
WOODWARD: It was a very senior. It makes me feel very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, ‘you’re going to regret doing something that you believe in, even though we don’t look at it that way, you look at it that way.’ I think if Barack Obama knew that was part of the communication strategy - let’s hope it’s not a strategy…
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White House threatens Woodward: You will regret this ? Glenn Beck