Validate conservative narrative, become latest conservative hero
So you all remember that
Bob Woodward hilarity this week? So Woodward got into it on the phone with a White House flack, who then sent an email apologizing to Woodward, saying that he should really rethink the wrong stuff he was thinking because it was wrong and he would end up looking like a fool, and then Woodward responded with a "no need to apologize!" email, and the whole exchange was more incestuous than threatening. Remember that?
But then Woodward decided that the White House email had actually caused him to piddle his pants, and he ran to CNN, Politico, and Sean Hannity to talk about how horrible this had all been and how it's only a matter of time before the White House starts boiling his bunnies and he's so scaaaaared?
Most conservative media jumped on this story, eager to validate their narrative of the White House populated by Chicago thugs. But some, like Matt Lewis at the Daily Caller, played it straight:
When Woodward tells of being warned he would “regret” challenging Obama, it sounds ominous. But if Politico’s reporting today is correct, it seems much more innocuous than that.
Looks like we were played.
So how do commenters at a conservative site react to being told that perhaps, on this issue, Obama isn't the devil incarnate? Head below the fold for the goods.
This WH has publicly threatened a great many journalists; most are too intimidated to do anything about the threats. Woodward decided to make the threat public, thus giving Woodward protection from any further action against him, because if there ever WAS any action taken against him, it would be fair game for publicly outting THAT as well. So, this WH is now on notice: If you take any punitive actions against WaPo or Woodward, we're going to tell everyone about it.
Damn, there goes Obama's plan to "Vince Foster" the guy.
That other liberals are coming forth with tales of Whitehouse threats, combined with Obama's blatant contempt for the media, should be all any sentient being needs to clearly see that free speech and an independent media are soon to be extinct in America.
This theory by Lewis completely ignores facts already in evidence, therefore isn't worth a damn. (oh no! I used a naughty word. Will I be "moderated," yet again? Talk about the death of free speech.....)
"Facts already in evidence," like the actual emails of the exchange.
Who dropped Mattie on his head..? I've seen several articles today where the Obama administration has tried or succeeded in intimidating people..Think Standard and Poors downgrade of U.S. debt..that the Obama administration didn't want them to do..and then the IRS goes after them..
Those "articles" are Lanny Davis trying to "me too!" along for the ride. Who? Exactly. (To jog your memory, he was Joe Lieberman's biggest defender, a treasurer of his PAC, and a lobbyist for murderous African regimes. I vaguely recall him being a Fox News Democrat, but I could be misremembering). Witness:
Lewis, you stupid fool. Today, Democrat heavyweight Lanny Davis reported that an Obama thug ALSO threatened him and the Washington Examiner, who run his op ed columns. Specifically, Davis said Obama's henchman threatened to take away the Examiner's Press Credentials, and made unspecified threats to destroy Davis. Obama and his gun running cartel are nothing more than heavily armed 'enemies within' that our military has a duty to drag from the White House, dead or alive.
They really have no idea who Lanny Davis is, and does anyone really believe the White House gives a shit about what's published in the Washington Examiner? That would be like them caring what anyone said in Newsmax.
the only REAL fact that matters, is that NO FREEDOM LOVING PERSON ON EARTH IS SAFE while we have
democrats/globalists/UN/global Hoaxers/marxists/progressives/socialists alive.
Other facts, like actual facts, don't matter!
I think that it still sounds bad. If I received this email, I would still consider myself threatened. I think that maybe Woodward IS afraid and believes that by going public, he is saving himself and his family.
Certainly, VJarrett is always on the lookout for anyone who threatens the Obama-Myth and Mythology. And if the Chicago Trib calls her a 'bare knuckled brawler who never loses" Well, Nixon looks like small potatoes compared to her.
Don't forget his bunnies. He's also on the lookout for Obama goons who might want to cook them!
I agree, that Jarrett "woman" freaks me out....she is SO creepy, always "lurking" around with that weird, fake "smile"....No wonder Oprah came to hate these people.
No idea what kind of wingnut myth would have Oprah hating Jarrett.
Matthuey Lewis and the Mews -- part of the problem.
...probably because he wants Ben Smith and Andrew Kaczynski of Buzz Feed and the whole slew of reprobates at Politico to like him even more -- and ultimately give him a job worthy of his 'street cred' -- because Matthuey Lewis and the Mews is stagnating at theDC -- no street cred anymore.
Also probably because Matthuey Lewis and the Mews is a fair-weather friend and bandwagon jumper -- and he fancies himself a 'journalist' -- so it stands to reason given the obvious White House cover and 'public information dissemination' climate for at least the next 4 years.
Matthuey Lewis and the Mews knows his bread will get buttered better by those who appreciate him most.
Yah. Don't get in the way of a conservative and his conspiracy theories.
Amazing how many in the Media are rallying around the White House and demonizing Bob Woodward who was the decades long Darling of Journalism Media as recently as a fraction of a second before he tattled on Dear Leader.
I guess that's why Main-Stream-Media and so-called "journalists" like Matt Lewis are known as the Fourth Branch of Government nowadays.
Barack Hussein Obama and his never ending clown-car cavalcade of sycophants and lickspittles wouldn't have it any other way.
Woodward being wrong is yet more evidence of the LIBERAL MEDIA!
LOL
‘Whoa, we don’t tell any reporter ‘you’re going to regret challenging us.’”
So the Obongo Mafia tells the stupid kids at Politico how to defend Obongo!
No conservative outlet is complete without racists.
Wait. So Woodward didn't feel threatened? He didn't know they'd leak the e-mail? He just made up the claim that he saw it as a threat?
I thought that it was up to the victim of a threat to tell us whether or not they felt threatened. Guess that's out the window.
No conservative outlet is complete without denigrating rape victims.
It was the uninformed, know-nothing, parasitical, un-American voters who voted Obama the Communist another 4 years in the White House. Informed voters wouldn't have elected Obama the Communist dog-catcher. He might have eaten the captured dogs as he did in Indonesia, the muslim capital of the world.
When a majority of the voters are "un-American," maybe your definition of "American" needs work.
So is Matt Lewis trying to score brownie points with Obama to gain access?? Obama's intimidation tactics are notorious....just look at FOX and other journalists who are coming out over the past 2 days like Lannie Davis a flaming liberal.....they described the same tactics as Woodward described!
So Matt how much are you getting paid to defend Obama??????You would have to be living under a rock to defend obama on this issue. Do you believe that people who read the DC are low information voters??????????????
All those other journalists, like flaming liberal Lannie Davis, who is neither a journalist, nor a flaming liberal, nor a
liberal, for that matter! So let's see ... Woodward, Davis ... that's like EVERYONE!
But true, Daily Caller readers are not low information voters. They are bad information voters. See here, here, here, and here for some examples. Remember, this is the crowd that thought Romney was a shoo-in at the White House.
Perhaps Mr. Lewis is merely naive or perhaps he is not too bright. The person writing to Mr. Woodward is one of the most seasoned Washington democratic operatives alive. These guys don't overtly threaten reporters, they do it in code. Anyone who does not understand this basic fact of DC political life should find new work - fast. PWR
If only conservatives weren't the only people in the world to have cracked this sinister code!
No. it looks like YOU guys are trying to kill Bob Woodwrd's revelations about the WH's thuggery. Now why is that? Could it be they are leaning on you too? The FCC COULD be a bludgeon used by Obama to keep conservative websites in line- or be dismantled.
The FCC has no jurisdiction over websites. Hmmm, maybe they
are low information voters after all!
We will see who is going to regret what it is done and still doing to hurt the nation. Maybe now is the time for low informed people to understand how bad is this President job and how damaging for the whole society his results are. It is time for the mainstream Media to have some honesty and talk about how wrong the implementation of the Chicago way is to lead the country and how out of place it looks as implemented from the White House. Obviously this President show himself as a confuse individual totally unfit for his job. We do not want to have an intriguing liar as President... this can not be in America.
Yup, Woodward's crazy fit was JUST what conservatives needed to expose Obama's treachery!
Putting "as a friend" is no different than not putting it. WTF Daily Caller? It's classic Chicago thuggery.
Or don't you remember Don Corleone kissing his brother and saying "I know it was you Fredo" then assigning his murder later on?
Don Corleone was a Chicago thug?
Don Corleone was real?
A query or two for the libs:
If Elizabeth Warren is a Cherokee because she self-identifies with Cherokees, how can you not defend to the death Woodward's right to self-identify that he was threatened?
If sexual harrassment is whatever someone who feeeels harrassed says that it is, haw can you not defend to the death that a threat is whatever someone who feeels threatened says that it is?
Oh right, hypocrisy.
Wingnut logic, in all its glory!