Breaking News: Liberal Political Journalist Ron Fournier Of The 'National Review' Was Also Threatened By White House (accuse, Obama)
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Looks like Bob Woodward and Lanny Davis weren't the only respected journalists that the White House threatened with emails. Former Washington Bureau Chief of the Associated Press Ron Fournier who is with 'The National Review' has come out and said he was also threatened by the White House for writing about Obama. It's apparent the White House is real nervous about these guys writing about them. He dropped this tidbit:
As editor-in-chief of National Journal, I received several e-mails and telephone calls from this White House official filled with vulgarity, abusive language, and virtually the same phrase that Woodward called a veiled threat. “You will regret staking out that claim,” The Washington Post reporter was told.
Once I moved back to daily reporting this year, the badgering intensified. I wrote Saturday night, asking the official to stop e-mailing me. The official wrote, challenging Woodward and my tweet. “Get off your high horse and assess the facts, Ron,” the official wrote.
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Given that Woodward is now being called old and brokedown by David Pflouffe, and the Juicebox Mafia has picked up the "senile" message they're putting out there... I would in fact say efforts are being made to insure Woodward "regrets" having correctly reported Obama's ownership of the sequester.
I essentially broke ties with a senior White House official.
Yes, I iced a source– and my only regret is I didn’t do it sooner. I decided to share this encounter because it might shed light on the increasingly toxic relationship between media and government, which is why the Woodward flap matters outside the Beltway.
On Saturday, White House press secretary Jay Carney accused Woodward of being “willfully wrong” on a story holding the White House accountable for its part in a legislative gimmick called sequestration. (Months ago, the GOP-controlled House passed, and Obama signed, legislation imposing $1.2 trillion in cuts unless an alternative is found by Friday.)
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Right now i'm on a Richard Nixon research kick. I'm reading several books about the inner workings of that President and the time period in which he presided....and I can say I don't believe that Obama is the only President to detest being targeted in the media. However, the difference between Obama and Nixon is that Obama expects the liberal media to kowtow to his every demand, and will issue threats when they don't write favorably about him, whereas Richard Nixon never expected to be treated fairly in the first place and thus tried in vain to deny media access to him at all. Nixon, in all is failures as a person, is still a far superior President to the current occupant.
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