The Issue: A White House e-mail to Bob Woodward saying he’d regret his criticism of President Obama.
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The rest of President Obama’s steno pool should realize they’re treading on very thin ice when someone like Bob Woodward is threatened (“What About Bob?” Editorial, March 1).
Woodward veered off the accepted narrative and criticized Obama for exaggerating the consequences of the sequester.
For leaving the herd, Woodward received a threatening e-mail from the White House and was told he would “regret staking out that claim.”
This is nothing more than totalitarian intimidation. The public should read the e-mail and see the thuggish behavior that this administration routinely uses to get its way — journalists who don’t worship at the Obama altar get smacked back in line.
And all of us wonder how and why our media are so corrupt and in the tank for this dangerously failed presidency?
Jim Autino
Floral Park
Woodward has been the darling of the left-wing liberal press since he exposed Richard Nixon’s behavior and cover-ups during Watergate.
Forty-two years later, the Democrats still haven’t learned anything.
Instead of just accepting that he had been caught lying about who is responsible for the sequester, Obama is trying to cover up his responsibility. What he doesn’t understand is the danger of being exposed as lying — that destroys his credibility.
If Obama is lying about the sequester, what else is he lying about? It is not the sequester Obama needs to fear, it is the Benghazi coverup that is waiting to explode.
Stephen Kogan
Elizabeth, NJ
In a previous letter to The Post regarding Benghazi, I asked: “Where is Woodward when we need him?” Now, he has emerged to counter threats from the White House for his “audacity” to challenge Obama’s sequester narrative.
As with Benghazi, Obama now twists the sequester dilemma that he created into yet another campaign tactic.
Please, Mr. Woodward, do the job you once did so successfully, and get this man out of office.
Donn-Alexandre Feder
Manhattan