re: #194 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

The media manipulation is being done by the media guy who is now all over media and getting media to cover his non-story.

The question is, why are you falling for it? Are you actually this gullible when something lines up with your preconceptions, or is this more performance art?

To be fair, even Greg Sargent’s of the opinion that Woodward’s whole bit isn’t exactly clear, and that the whole story about “threats” might be more Politico’s fault:

What did Bob Woodward actually claim about the White House?

To be clear, I don’t know exactly what Woodward meant. Perhaps he did mean to imply that he felt the threat of retribution. But this just isn’t conclusively clear. It seems equally plausible that Woodward could have intended the more innocuous interpretation, but made word hash of it.

What really may have happened here is that Politico created the idea (perhaps understandably, given what a mess Woodward’s claims were) that he had accused the White House of threatening retribution — and then debunked its own story the next day.