Scarborough: Bush White House Threatened Me

February 28th, 2013 7:21 AM
The Morning Joe panel was tough today on the Obama White House for threatening Bob Woodward by telling him he would "regret" his reporting that it was the Obama administration that had devised the sequester,   In the course of the opening segment, various panel members described the Obama White House response as "mickey mouse," "pathetic" and "childish." But at the same time, a theme emerged…

Woodward Claims 'A Very Senior Person' at White House Emailed 'You Wil

February 27th, 2013 9:09 PM
I presume everyone remembers how when the New York Times published information about a classified program designed to track the movement of alleged terrorist funding through the international banking system Bush administration officials threatened to prosecute Times reporters and management over what they had done? No you don't, because although some conservatives and Republicans thought it…

Woodward: Obama Exhibiting 'A Kind of Madness I Haven't Seen in a Long

February 27th, 2013 11:15 AM
The Washington Post's Bob Woodward continues to break ranks with his Obama-loving colleagues by holding the President's feet to the fire concerning the looming budget sequester. Just days after he wrote a piece in the Post exposing the inconvenient truth that it was indeed the White House that initially proposed sequestration during the 2011 debt ceiling debate, Woodward appeared on MSNBC's…

Strange New Conservative Respect for Bob Woodward

February 26th, 2013 9:10 AM
Politico media reporter Mackenzie Weinger reports that there is new respect from media conservatives over Washington Post bigfoot Bob Woodward insisting there are facts about just who introduced the sequester -- the White House. “Apparently Woodward doesn’t view his job as being a total lapdog for Obama,” Sean Hannity said on his radio show Monday.Hannity told his listeners that Woodward is “…

Latest Ed Schultz Whopper: Obama Tax Hike on Wealthy Not Actual Tax Hi

February 25th, 2013 4:11 PM
Somewhere the ghost of George Orwell groans in recognition. Remember during last year's campaign how President Obama harped on "millionaires and billionaires" not paying what they should in taxes? For the sake of fairness, Obama insisted, tax rates signed into law by George W. Bush a decade ago should increase on the wealthy while the remaining "98 percent" of taxpayers, those earning less…

MoveOn.Mika: 'Silly' To Discuss Obama Not Telling Truth Over Authorshi

February 25th, 2013 8:51 AM
Call her MoveOn.Mika . . . Bob Woodward has demonstrated that President Obama was not telling the truth during the third presidential debate when he flatly stated that "the sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.” In fact, it was two Obama aides who devised the plan, and Obama himself who approved it. But when Joe Scarborough wanted to get…

WaPo 'Guppy' Ezra Klein Lamely Claims 2012 Election Win Allows Obama t

February 24th, 2013 11:44 AM
You take humor anywhere you can get it these days. Matt Drudge's characterization of Washington Post WonkBlog editor Ezra Klein as a "guppy" ("WASH POST Guppy Says Legend is WRONG") in linking to the 2007-2008 Jounolist conspiracy organizer's pathetic attempt to refute Bob Woodward's indisputably correct claims that sequestration was the brainchild of Obama administation officials and that "…

Attn. Chuck Todd and Establishment Press: Bob Woodward Insists That Se

February 23rd, 2013 6:43 PM
In yesterday's Washington Post, Bob Woodward repeated what the essence of what he wrote about sequestration in his book, “The Price of Politics.” Why? Because leftist media stooges like MSNBC's Chuck Todd, who is upset that conservatives and Republicans are "begging the media to say it's Obama that started the sequester, not them" (well, in general, Chuck, we'd like to see you tell the truth…

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Obama's Had 'Most Difficult Political Culture' o

January 22nd, 2013 10:47 AM
One of the requirements to be a liberal media member in the 21st century is to have selective amnesia when your agenda demands it. Consider presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin who during an appearance on PBS's Charlie Rose Monday said, "The political culture in which [Barack Obama's] had to work in these last four years may have been the most difficult political culture that any…

Woodward to Obama: Sticking Your Finger in Republican Eyes All the Tim

January 22nd, 2013 9:57 AM
As NewsBusters reported Saturday, CBS News political director John Dickerson advised the current White House resident to destroy the Republican Party. On PBS's Charlie Rose Monday, the Washington Post's Bob Woodward made a much different recommendation to President Obama saying, "Sticking your finger in these people’s eye all the time I don't think will work" (video follows with transcript…

Bob Woodward: A Tea Party Speaker of the House Would ‘Lay Down and L

January 6th, 2013 11:42 AM
The Washington Post's Bob Woodward took a ridiculous swipe at the Tea Party Sunday. Appearing on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show, Woodward said, "We'll see if the White House is going to realize it's much better to have a Speaker Boehner with that mindset than somebody from the Tea Party or the more extreme right which would just lay down and, you know, let the country burn" (video follows…

Bob Woodward Shocker: There Is a Way to Raise Revenue AND Lower Tax Ra

November 11th, 2012 11:43 AM
Stop the presses! Stop the presses! The Washington Post's Bob Woodward on The Chris Matthews Show Sunday not only called Democrat visions of balancing the budget by raising taxes on the rich a "fantasy," but he also said "there is a way to...raise more revenue and perhaps lower the rates" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Bob Woodward: 'Obama Is Proposing Cutting Medicare

October 3rd, 2012 10:22 AM
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama is claiming that if reelected, he would save Medicare while Mitt Romney will kill it. Yet the Washington Post's Bob Woodward said on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday the president "is proposing cutting Medicare" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

On PBS, Bob Woodward Demands Romney Apologize to Americans for Unpresi

September 19th, 2012 12:13 PM
Bob Woodward continued his lecture circuit on how he’s the source of “the best obtainable version of the truth” in politics by demanding  Republican nominee Mitt Romney to apologize for his “off the cuff” remarks captured in a leaked video at a private fundraiser in Florida. During his typically soporific interview with Judy Woodruff on the PBS Newshour, which will air later this week –…