correspondent for usa today, the media megaphone distorts the budget cut battle. they won t get into the specifics of what is being reduced in the level of spending. they only get into the battle. that s what they re more interested in. most of most of the real careful an analysis was from like national journal, but only on their paid content. so if you wanted something that was a little more in depth, you had to pay for the content. there was the blame game amplyfied this week when bob woodward, the famous journalist who was involved in uncovering the watergate scandal, wrote a column last week claiming that the sequestration plan was the president s, charging that the president actually moved the goal post in asking for more revenue as part of the sequestration. now, that article led to call by the president s economic czar, gene sperling, first screaming at woodward and then sending an e-mail apologizing for the warning, i think you
the media megaphone distorts the budget cut battle. they won t get into the specifics of what is being reduced in the level of spending. they only get into the battle. that s what they re more interested in. most of most of the real careful an analysis was from like national journal, but only on their paid content. so if you wanted something that was a little more in depth, you had to pay for the content. there was the blame game amplyfied this week when bob woodward, the famous journalist who was involved in uncovering the watergate scandal, wrote a column last week claiming that the sequestration plan was the president s, charging that the president actually moved the goal post in asking for more revenue as part of the sequestration. now, that article led to call by the president s economic czar, gene sperling, first screaming at woodward and then sending an e-mail apologizing for the warning, i think you
half hour in which he was shouting at me. now, i ve known him for 20 years and he e-mailed back don t i don t worry about shouts, but he was really worked up and, and then he sent me that e-mail apologizing and you know, saying i m going to regret taking this stand. now, what we re talking about here is not a fact. he s not arguing with a fact because beforehand he said we re just not going to see eye to eye on this. it s an interpretation. obviously, he didn t like being challenged on this at all. but you know, people have said, well, this was a threat or i was saying it was a threat. i haven t used that language, but it s not the way to operate in a white house. it s not as you know, when somebody says you re going to regret something, particularly somebody in a position of power like gene sperling, he s
undo it. but there s no clear pathway in the near future. luke russert from d.c. thank you. have a fantastic weekend. likewise. that brings us to today s gut check. what do you think? do you think there s a solution before feeling the affects? sequestration solution. say that three times fast. we have an update for you on yesterday s gut check of what s been a sideshow to the sequester, if you will. the battle brewing between the white house and journalist bob woodward. started when woodward claimed that president obama initially said taxes should not be a part of sequester fight and now a change that woodward called moving the goal post. woodward got a testy phone call, testy e-mail from the president s economic adviser gene sperling and a then an e-mail apologizing for the call and woodward complained all week
and you just watch it and shake your head. it s been kind of painfully revealing to watch, but i think the reason he isn t doing so well is because of those last two debates. don t you think? for his part, speaker gingrich equated romney with president obama calling them the two twins of the establishment and accused romney of running a big lie campaign. we can t beat the money power romney himself. we can t beat the dishonest of his campaign by ourselves. we need witness who are prepared to go out and prepared to stand for conservatism and prepared to tell the truth and we need to run a big truth campaign that beats the big lie campaign. jim acosta is following the romney campaign. let s take a peek and share the video of mitt romney joking with reporters on the campaign flight this morning, throwing bags of chips around, carrying a birthday cake. the images of a confident man. what are his people saying he needs to do as we show the pictures now? can t hear his voice.