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WH Official Who 'Warned' Woodward Was...an Economic Adviser?

squiddy Wrote: Feb 28, 2013 10:26 AM

In the next 48 hours, we're going to see dozens (or hundreds) of blog postings and articles, professing sadness that a once-great journalist is now suffering from dementia and/or delusions. We've seen this before - heck, even Bill Clinton got the 'crazy uncle in the basement' treatment from this administration and their dedicated legions of media pawns. Time and again, we see a sudden spate of articles, across every media type, of some new pressing issue or crisis, with the administration "coincidentally" introducing a plan to address the issue/crisis within days. I'd never believed the US news media could be controlled by the government - but I guess if the media is a willing accomplice, then it's not really bad, right?

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WH Official Who 'Warned' Woodward Was...an Economic Adviser?

He's not exactly one of the usual suspects--many have noted that this whole 'You're gonna regret this' line of talk befits someone like Rahm Emmanuel. But Buzzfeed reports that it was Gene Sperling who emailed Woodward saying, "I think you will regret staking out that claim."

The email from Sperling to Woodward, which Woodward read to Politico Wednesday, has transfixed Washington, with Republicans and some in the press charging that it embodies a White House lording it over a cowed press corps.

Woodward, Politico reported, called the top official — identified to BuzzFeed as Sperling — to...