Conservatives Regret Taking Woodward’s ‘Threat’ Story Seriously

FILE - This June 11, 2012 file photo shows former Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward speaking during an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Watergate in Washington. The next book by the award-winning inve... FILE - This June 11, 2012 file photo shows former Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward speaking during an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Watergate in Washington. The next book by the award-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author will document how President Barack Obama and congressional leaders responded to the economic crisis and where we stand now. Publisher Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday, Aug. 14, the book will be called "The Price of Politics" and will come out Sept. 11. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file) MORE LESS
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Now that the correspondence between Bob Woodward and the White House has been revealed as tame and cordial, conservative commentators are reacting with disappointment to the veteran journalist’s claim that he was threatened over his sequestration reporting

Politico on Thursday posted the emails between Woodward and White House economic adviser Gene Sperling, who told Woodward, “as a friend, I think you will regret staking out that claim.”

“Looks like we were played,” The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis wrote Thursday morning. 

RedState editor Erick Erickson was also surprised after reading the emails:

 

The Washington Examiner’s Byron York agreed:

 

Fox News political analyst Brit Hume tweeted that it is hard to imagine feeling threatened by Sperling:

 

Keith Urbahn, Donald Rumsfeld’s former chief of staff, tweeted:

 

 Read TPM’s timeline of the Woodward-White House spat here

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