{"id":13087,"date":"2013-02-28T17:15:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:15:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-28T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:15:50","slug":"drive_bys_side_with_white_house_throw_media_icon_bob_woodward_under_bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/28\/drive_bys_side_with_white_house_throw_media_icon_bob_woodward_under_bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Bys Side with White House, Throw Media Icon Bob Woodward Under Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I don\u2019t know, folks. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just not sure that what we\u2019re dealing with here is a “you\u2019re gonna have a dead horse in your bed tomorrow morning” kind of threat. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what we\u2019re dealing with. I do think the White House is gonna take care of Woodward with a death panel down the road. That\u2019s how they\u2019re gonna deal with this. We\u2019ll never know. Woodward\u2019s gonna get sick and the death panel will come in there and that will be that. <\/p>\n

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No. No, no. There\u2019s not gonna be a drone with his name on it. They\u2019ll just do it with a death panel, just handle that with death panel. So, you know, you can go either way on this. And, by the way, I do not doubt that the White House has threatened reporters. I don\u2019t doubt that. I think one of the most prescient things that Woodward said was in explaining — and he thinks he was threatened. And Lanny Davis is raising his hand (paraphrasing), “Hey, I was threatened, too, and I have ‘poof.\u2019 I have ‘poof\u2019 that I was threatened.” And then Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhh is saying (paraphrasing), “If they were threatened, it\u2019s outrageous.” <\/p>\n

Now, what Woodward said was that he can take it, that he\u2019s been around. He\u2019s an old timer. He\u2019s seen it all. He\u2019s dealt with Nixon, and that\u2019s, by the way, what I think he meant when he said “madness” that he hasn\u2019t seen in a long time. I think he\u2019s comparing Obama to Nixon, there\u2019s no question about it. He said (paraphrasing), “Look, I can handle it. If they threaten me, I can handle it. It\u2019s the young reporters who want access, somebody in the White House threatens \u2019em, can get \u2019em to snap right to.” And I totally believe that that\u2019s happened. I\u2019m just not sure that that\u2019s what this was. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve read Sperling\u2019s e-mail. That\u2019s the e-mail that contains the “you\u2019ll regret this.” And the way I read it, Sperling is telling Woodward you\u2019re gonna regret this \u2019cause you\u2019re wrong. You\u2019re gonna regret it as a journalist. But Woodward is taking it as a threat, so that\u2019s how we\u2019re gonna deal with it. Well, “you\u2019ll regret this” in “Chicagospeak” means that you\u2019re gonna have a dead horse bleeding in your bed tomorrow morning or some morning, that\u2019s “Chicagospeak.” But Sperling… I don\u2019t know. Look, the conventional wisdom is that it\u2019s a threat. That\u2019s what everybody\u2019s going with. To me, here\u2019s the story. <\/p>\n