{"id":34669,"date":"2013-02-28T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34669"},"modified":"2013-02-28T06:30:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:30:01","slug":"you-dont-do-business-against-the-family-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34669","title":{"rendered":"You Don&#8217;t Do Business Against The Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Woodward has spent the past four decades as a hero of the Left&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/americanglob.com\/2013\/02\/27\/defend-the-king-liberal-claws-come-out-to-rip-bob-woodward\/\">until this past week<\/a>, when he transgressed against The One.<\/p>\n<p>Now? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/02\/27\/us-usa-fiscal-woodward-idUSBRE91Q11620130227\">He&#8217;ll never do lunch in DC again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob Woodward called a senior White House official last week to tell him that in a piece in that weekend\u2019s Washington Post, he was going to question President Barack Obama\u2019s account of how sequestration came about &#8211; and got a major-league brushback. The Obama aide \u201cyelled at me for about a half hour,\u201d Woodward told us in an hour-long interview yesterday around the Georgetown dining room table where so many generations of Washington\u2019s powerful have spilled their secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Digging into one of his famous folders, Woodward said the tirade was followed by a page-long email from the aide, one of the four or five administration officials most closely involved in the fiscal negotiations with the Hill. \u201cI apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today,\u201d the official typed. \u201cYou\u2019re focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. \u2026 I think you will regret staking out that claim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span>Woodward repeated the last sentence, making clear he saw it as a veiled threat. \u201c \u2018You\u2019ll regret.\u2019 Come on,\u201d he said. \u201cI think if Obama himself saw the way they\u2019re dealing with some of this, he would say, \u2018Whoa, we don\u2019t tell any reporter \u2018you\u2019re going to regret challenging us.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimgeraghty\/status\/306913420358348800\">he&#8217;s got plenty more<\/a> to go around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Woodward has spent the past four decades as a hero of the Left&#8230; &#8230;until this past week, when he transgressed against The One. Now? \u00a0He&#8217;ll never do lunch in DC again: Bob Woodward called a senior White House official last week to tell him that in a piece in that weekend\u2019s Washington Post, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34671,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34669\/revisions\/34671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}