I wonder how much of a heads up Woodward gave Nixon´s folks or any Republican he decided to skewer before writing those pieces.

But hey, that´s life.

I think the rest of the media will ostracize Woodward.

I bet it was ValJar who called and screamed, she is after all, the Revenge Queen.

The individual who threatened Woodward is a male (per Woodward). Politico just posted this article at 80 this evening.....after Mark Levin talked about it on his show. Politico´s conversation with Woodward too place YESTERDAY.

Have any other reporters been threatened?

Correction: "Politico just posted this article at 80 this evening"

Obama made a speech announcing the withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan, and all I heard was Nixon announcing peach in Vietnam. And ever since than...I keep seeing parallels between Obama and Nixon. Both paranoid. Both thin skin. Nixon was pragmatic and believed in the government´s ability to control aspects of our life to make it better. Obama is an egotist who believes in his right to rule...that he knows best an thus all should worship him. Nixon at least intelligent and loved this county. And deep down I think he was a good man. Anyway, it would be interesting to ask Woodward to do a compare and contrast between the two men and their Presidencies. Be interesting see if Woodward has finally figured out what a criminal really looks like...

Just went to WAPO to read their version of this story. Ummmm... search engine must not be working, I couldn´t find it. Certainly WAPO will cover what Saint Woodward is saying.... hahahahahahahahahahahaha

#4 & #5. Point well taken. Politico was going to sit on this story. Kudos to Mark Levin for cracking this rotten egg.
Shame on Politico.

Hmmmm maybe Woodward...unlike the non media...loves his country more than the dem party.....

No sympathy for the White House cretins except to note that they´ve never lost a game of Blackmail Your Enemies so it must be very strange to have someone fight back.

The sad part is the WH is fighting Woodward while the repubs are in a deep sleep.

You GO Bob, you have hit a very raw nerve and Barry is not very happy...but Barry needs to remember that you helped bring down Nixon, and he was 1000 times more the President than Barry can even dream about being! At least you are doing true reporting that the rest of the Lame Stream News Media is not doing because they are too busy protecting their Messiah and carrying the water for him!

Color me skeptical.

Maybe the old dog has one more "gotcha" fight in him. Woodward is not a stupid man.

Administration policy starts at TOP. The President makes threats in public. No one can criticize this Administration without repercussions. Mr Woodward should take it right to them on EVERY policy that is damaging the Nation.

You know, it is actually smart for us to sit back and let someone like Woodward lead the fight. He has a lefty pedigree which holds more weight with Dems. There is no way they can paint him as right wing or racist. Let more lefty journos jump on the band wagon as it gathers momentum before we climb aboard and enjoy the ride.

Well, I´m glad that Woodward´s a little revved up over this. Maybe something good will come of it.

Notice, though, the part where he says “I think if Obama himself saw the way they’re dealing with some of this, he would say, ‘Whoa, we don’t tell any reporter ‘you’re going to regret challenging us.’ ”

It reminds me that, in old Imperial Russia, some atrocity would occur in the countryside, and the peasants would say to each other, "If only the Czar knew about this, he would fix it." Later, in the Soviet Union, they would say "If only Stalin knew."

The enemy of my enemy...for now anyway.

Nixon was a flawed patriot, Obama an America-hating Marxist. Comparing the two displays an ignorance of history.

So - merely doing your job as a journalist and uttering a single White House-unapproved truth about Dear Leader is to be "at war"?! How far the press has come since Watergate...

It´s the rest of the MSM who, as the dishonest propaganda arm of the malignancy occupying the White House, are at war - with Americans.

Woodward will cave.

Woodward needs to reread some of Obama´s record if he thinks Obama is not ok with yelling and threatening a reporter. Obama is perfectly ok with all this.

Happening right now: 67am Joe Scarborough and Mark Halperin are saying "Bush did it too."

oh looky barrys boys are out defending

Woodward, good liberal that he is, will cave like all liberals do. Someone will take him to the woodshed. Someone already threatened him, so don´t count on steadiness or character from Woodward.

What Woodward or someone else should ask this White House: "Do you seriously plan to risk American lives by cutting first responders while letting criminals out of jail around the country? And what are all those hollow-point bullets y´all bought up going to be used for?"

What poster 20 said. Woodward cares most about iaccess to WH sources. Therefore, this story will fizzle because bob cannot risk losing his version of dependence on big government .

Could this be the beginning?

Woodward is credited with bringing down nixon. I am cheering for him to do it again. Obama has dozens of scandals worse than watergate. Woodward was popular the first time around and was made an instant hero. Now he can be a real hero and a real patriot. Now who wants to be "deep throat" in the Obama Admin?

Woodward is speaking the truth and the WH is telling him he will regret it. Of course it´s a threat. This is falling apart on Obama. He isn´t telling some fibs. He is telling some huge outrageous lies. This is better than a soap opera.

Lately I´ve had an unquenchable curiosity about all things Romanov. I wonder why?

(Someone please attempt to explain to the lo-fo´s who the Romanovs were and what the Marxists did to them. Good luck.)

Fascinating to see Mika Brezghenski (squinting, which is what she does when she thinks she is registering "thought") on todays Morning Joe go´s on about this being business as usual, push back from some aid, and never mention that the "aid" threatening was Gene Sperling, one of Obama´s top economic advisors.

A bit later Morning Joe (and Joe is such a jerk, even when he is defending!) showed a piece by another of Obama´s top guys saying Woodward MAY have been big time once but his is obviously past his sell by date. Let´s see if they can get away with trashing the man-----I doubt that he will back down. He is a Dem, no doubt, but he also has journalistic ethics that he tries to live by. Go Bob go! It´s about time someone calls to account our own personal Hugo Chavez and his cult of personality, which allows him to bend and break the law.

HuffPoo is already isolating the target. Woodward is their headline right now, and they refer to him as a "drama king". The article reads like it was written by the White House. They admit that Gene Sperling was the one who yelled at him. The article sneeringly implies that Woodward is a whiny baby and even mentions that Mr. Sperling is not "physically threatening", as if reporters were afraid of getting slugged, not losing access. The threatening email is characterized as apologetic, but ol´ drama king Woodward is obviously too dumb to understand the words written in it.

The left now has it´s narrative - White House = voice was raised, but now unthreatening little Gene Sperling is apologizing for his decibel level. Woodward = old, entitled, has-been attention seeker making a mountain out of a molehill because he needs the attention.

Wonder if Mr. Woodward is sorry yet? Will he be by the end of the day? The White House is demonstrating exactly what the threat meant, aren´t they?

Note what constitutes "war" to journalists today...merely daring to openly speak the truth. Woodward isn´t attacking Obama. Not is he attacking his policies. He was simply refusing to let a false version of the source of the sequestration go unchallenged. And now that´s "war". Pretty damning commentary on the state of journalism today.

And I don´t agree that Woodward will automatically return to the liberal fold once he feels the wrath of their ostracism. There are plenty of us former liberals now turned genuine conservatives here who understand exactly that this is Woodward´s "lightning bolt moment". You don´t need to get hit twice to understand what just happened.

I´m currently listening to "Mornings on the Mall" on WMAL talk radio out of DC. Apparently Lanny Davis ( of the Clinton machine ) got this same treatment from the WH over columns he wrote for the Washington Times. The WH also threatened the editor of the Times with loss of WH press credentials if the Times didn´t reign Davis in.

Zippy is shredding the First Amendment. In a sane world the press would turn on him - we´ll see...

#29, isn´t Romanov a vodka? Lol

The first thought I had when Woodworm came out with his
concern, was he has now lost his access to the White House.
The next move will probably be a walk back of sorts. In the meantime, in between time, it will be fun.

Obama: "I´ll get you, and your little dog too. Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha"

If this has legs Woodward will be invited on the Sunday talk shows. If not... Obama ain´t no Nixon. It´s a Teflon thing.

Hey -- maybe God´s trying to tell Woodward something....

Ya think?????

LZK

Yet another good example of how mean and ruthless our little man in the White House is. Birds of a feather flock together, as we see, and his bunch of high-powered thugs are proving it.

How sad and embarrassing to have Obama - a man of this caliber - as our president. It´s fortunate for us they threatened a reporter who is definitely not a right-winger. Surely some of the MSM will believe him.

Woodward started his career with Nixon, perhaps he is ending it with Obama.

Great bookends. s/o

Woodward will not cave. He also will not get much support from the MSM. They´ve been jealous of him ever since Watergate.

I don´t know. Seems to me Woodward is not going to compromise all his work to just cave now. He was trying to support his points made in his book, and if Obama Hadn´t been so "chicken little" all week, none of this would even be news.

This gets in the weeds now, because it is obvious we have an incompetent leader, and the WHAT the lie is becomes second to the drama around it. And rest of the LSM are comatose.

I don`t feel the least but sorry for Woodward. He helped create this monster so live with it.

If this story has real muscular legs, I´ll be surprised. In the end, Washington is all about accessibility of information. I am sure Mr. Woodward´s reputation is respected but the knives will turn when his exposé is focused on Democrat president. I can´t believe that he wants to be the guy who causes trouble for Obama. He would much rather his legacy be taking down Nixon.

Bob Woodward is nothing less than the elder statesman of American journalism and he is speaking out against the Obama administration. This is huge!
Also, he´s made so much money on his books and lecture fees that the WaPo needs him much more than he needs the WaPo. He can enjoy independence of thought and deed.
I think he is trying to right the ship of state that is the American MSM. The 24/7 fawning over Obama is driving away readership. And money.
We´ll see if this is working if and when more journalists start to criticize Obama.
I haven´t watched ´Morning Joe´ since before the election, but if they are sympathizing with Bob Woodward then his strategy is starting to work.
Regardless, this is definitely popcorn worthy.

#22 I noticed that last night with Bob Beckel on O´Reilly. When these dimbos get backed into a corner by the truth, they claim "everybody did it!" Does that make it right? I thought bammy was supposed to be DIFFERENT! Yeah...right.

I hate to be crude but sometimes it´s necessary for emphasis so, let me just say that the main stream media is a puddle of warm puke. Thank you very much.

He´ll lose.
This will drift away in the Memory Hole

Never forget Stilson Hutchins FOUNDED the paper for the express purpose of advancing and supporting the Democrat Party agenda.

Woodward is but a passing phenomenon.

Is this a crack in the dike?

#1 - Quite a bit, actually. In fact, one time that he called one of the folks in CREEP (I forget just who) mentioned something about Katherine Graham was putting her "breast" in a wringer on "this one". I wish that I had more info, but the fact is that they DID call to get responses BEFORE they placed stories into the Post.

The state controlled media will make Bob look like a crazed nut case before they will allow their lord and master, lord messiah o´bama to be seen for what he really is...
A FRICKEN LUNITIC!!!!
Lord messiah o´bama is being prepped to be
New World Order dictator, according to Henry
Kissenger in World Net Daily.
The world´s people better keep an eye on lord
messiah o´bama´s antics here in America because one day soon he may be doing the same
to those countries and then NO ONE will be able to control him.
The state controlled media will allow nothing
to happen to lord messiah o´bama so in a few
days this story will g away or the state controlled media will blame the republicans for what is about to happen and the sad part about this is over seventy-five percent of americans will believe the state controlled media´s fabricated stories.

I´m not yet ready to sign high praises to Bob woodward. He is and has been a life long liberal Dim and I just don´t think that he has made the transition to conservative. Remember, conservatives will give anyone credit for telling the truth. Especially when it concerns a morass of lies and deceit that the WH currently is.

And as for the WH threatening him, that´s really not even arguable. Of course they did. They do something like that to anyone who crosses their path. I wish Woodward good luck and pray that he doesn´t walk back on his word.

Where has been Woodward the last four plus years ? Nothing from the commie white house and his followersincluding all most all of the media,has changed except for the worse.

This will be forgotten in two weeks.....

Woodward was able to bring down a president for simply lying to attempt to cover up a minor burglary. Imagine what he could do with four years of serious criminal acts, treason, election fraud and theft. I assume he knows how to watch his back because the threats WILL be followed up by action.

Now Americans with half a brain can clearly see the formation of the dictator (Americans with more than half a brain saw it earlier).
Media is self-censoring itself very efficiently, except the "geniuses" with enormous ego, like Woodward. He mistakenly thought that he can say whatever he wants. Woody, it doesn´t work this way - no untouchables in the totalitarian society!

I don´t think that Woodward will back down. He has spent the last four years in a fog watching the current administration pursure every course of action in an opposite manner that he, a devout liberal would propose. I think that the Drone Program and Gitmo´s continued existance are pushing him to a realization that he has been slow to acknowledge.

Where´s his partner Bernstein?
Shouldn´t he be speaking up in support of Woodward?

I think that Bernstein had a falling out with Woodward. Woodward prevailed and Bernstein disappeared. Bad blood there IIRC.

Woodward has made the mistake of being a "reporter" instead of a stenographer journalist. Bernstein died a year or two ago I think.

woodward, schmoodward, who cares! He is dedicated lib, who thinks that he can talk freely, while getting his paycheck from the leftist commie/fascists. Woody, you are wrong!
Btw, all this talk: obozo knew, obozo didn´t?
Yeah, stalin also didn´t know, and hitler didn´t know! There were russians and germans who actually believed in that....
I laugh at pundits comparing what is becoming of America with Europe. No, guys, it is not even close to that!

According to Politico, telling the truth about Obama constitutes being "at war" with Obama.

Wow.

Well, what else would you expect from these leftist cheerleaders?

Our (p)resident is a corrupt, dishonest, powermad lunatic, protected by a corrupt and cowardly press corps that dares not tell the truth about Wise King Barky.

Bernstein is still alive. He was married to Nora Ephron for a while. She isn´t.

An Iron Curtain has descended on the Washington press corps.

The proof that dictatorship is now operating in Washington is the fact that The Washington Post and other members of the liberal MSM are so weak and intimated by the White House´s threats against Bob Woodward that they´re fallen silent, or worse.

Not only are Bob Woodward´s colleagues afraid to speak up on his behalf and on behalf of freedom of the press, but some are even going out of their way to publicly bash Mr. Woodward to gain favor with the Obama dictatorship.

Bob Woodward has the opportunity to write a scathing expose about the Obama administration. He can travel to an undisclosed location to do so, if he feels uncomfortable in Washington. But will he? It´s doubtful that he has any more backbone than his cowering colleagues.

Well said #47 as usual.
Notice the media immediately cut out Woodward´s comment on MSNBC that placed the Obama actions in the same status he did in the Nixon coverup. The first Woodward comment then was over the stupid attempt to shut up and lock up the high official´s wife.
That comment om MSNBC followed his concern about Obama rushing around sounding off about crippling the military. Woodward I quote "This is the kind of madness that I haven´t seen in a long time."
How much more direct can he be? How could he not then put it all on the line to call out Obama for his madness?

#39, if Woodward gets invited to the Sunday am faze the nation and meet the depressed programs, they´ll try to Palinize him, anyway. But, at the same time, I think Woodward would hold his own. Strange, right now, that I feel for the same character who chose to bring Nixon down.