Mattis and Kelly respond to Bob Woodward

Instapundit: Roger Simon: Bob Woodward's Latest Novel

Bob Woodward wants to sell books. He does not care if quotes are real or not, he just has to show he has a "source" (without revealing who it is). So what if the source is lying or twisting the truth, or if the actual persons say it is not true and it never happened.

When Jim Mattis denies on Woodward's "quotes" of him (especially with "unnamed sources") I am going with Mattis. Mattis calls Woodward's book "fiction." Mattis makes it clear he would not disrespect the President or tollerate others to do so in front of him.

Chief of Staff Jim Kelly also denounces Woodward's book:

“The idea I ever called the president an idiot is not true,” Kelly said in a statement distributed by the White House. “He always knows where I stand, and he and I both know this story is total B.S.”

TOM: In The Mail Box 09.05.18: Volokh Conspiracy: Kavanaugh’s Testimony On Executive Power and Megan McArdle: Sasse Takes A Star Turn At The Kavanaugh Show, Democratss Planned (and paid for) Hearing Protests and In The Mailbox: 09.04.18: Mark Steyn: Keeping Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs, also, Rush To Judge

Hot Air: Allah takes on Brit Hume, but what if a lot of these "quotes" by Woodward are wrong?  Look what the Democrats did to Zina Bash?

Instapundit: There is a long list of credibility issues for Bob Woodward and Ben Sassee Explains Things

Political Insider: Bob Woodard has a long history of creating 'works of fiction'

A View From The Beach: Democrats Throw Tantrum At Kavanaugh Hearing

National Review/Conrad Black: The Truth about Bob Woodward

90 Miles From Tyranny: No low too low for the DC Swamp

Don Surber: Bob Woodward Got Played

AoSHQ /J.J. Sefton: Cunning Stunts

Mark Steyn: Rush To Judge, Two

Bubble Hillary

Breitbart: Bob Woodward: Hillary wanted to 'subvert the rules' "She lives in a bubble'

Hot Air: Hillary Clinton grilled on Face The Nation and expansion of FBI probe

Instapundit: Math, Woodward says Watergate, Nuclear emails
RedState: Quid Pro Quo
AoSHQ: FBI Probe?
Biden his Time
Rush: Pop!
RRG

AoSHQ: Huma Emails To Be Released?

IRS Scandal is a lot like Watergate…so why is it not being reported?

Instapundit : But they won't, because they are more Democrats than journalists

Sheryl Attikisson: How the media protects Obama
EBL: Who is behind a lot of these White House scandals?

Update:

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Wombat : Who at CBS News killed anti-Obama Attikisson stories?
CBS and Team Obama: It is not the scandal but the cover up…

Separated at Birth: Mississippi Political Blogger Clayton Thomas Kelly and…?

Blogger arrested for going into hospital room…

Journalist arrested for going into hospital room…

TOM: "Forget it Jake, it's…"

This post is not to defend Clayton Thomas Kelly, if he did this it was definitely wrong.  But part of Kelly's problem is he is not able to ride on an Establishment reputation like Bob Woodward did with his supposed death bed interview of Bill Casey.  Of course, there is a dispute over whether it ever happened--which suggests Woodward might be guilty of something else.

Update:

TOM: More arrests in Mississippi Scandal (definitely BSC News worthy)

Hot Air has more…
Drew at AoSHQ has more...

We cover this race on the podcast and Ace makes a point I haven't seen anyone else making...the charges represent an unethical use of law enforcement in order to stifle a legitimate act of journalism. The podcast is up and linked in the sidebar.

Chuck Todd: Democrat Party Bitch; Updated with Chuck Todd Separated at Birth...

Chuck Todd claims Bob Woodward is a spokesman for the Republicans?  Why?  Because Woodward had the termity to call the White House out on the sequester (which everyone knows Barack Obama's White House initially proposed)?

Chuck Todd, Democrat Party Bitch

Update:  Andrew Sullivan refuses to be out bitched by Chuck Todd!

Separated at Birth Update:

Hey if Chuck Todd ever loses his day job at MSNBC, maybe he can fall back to this...

Chuck Todd, part time media manager
Barack Obama's White House

Murray Hewitt, part time media manager
Flight of the Concords

Have no dog in the Woodward thing, but struck by pack mentality of progressives lately. Deviate from the hive mind, and you'll be crushed.
— radleybalko (@radleybalko) March 1, 2013

The Media Turns On Bob Woodward For Observing Emperor Obama Is Wearing No Clothes

The Bob Woodward story isn't important. That's why liberals and the media (PTR) are losing their minds over it.
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) February 28, 2013

Hey. 

Remember: They're not attacking Bob Woodward because they think he's lying. They're attacking him because they think he's telling the truth.
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) February 28, 2013

The sequester is something Barack Obama proposed.  He is now lying about it to gain political advantage.   The White House is upset Woodward called them on it.

Woodward’s greatest sin was practicing real journalism in the age of Obama nblo.gs/INeHJ
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) February 28, 2013

Update:
TOM: Woodward gets a warning...
AoSHQ: Lanny Davis also?
Woodward Not Alone:  Davis threatened too...

Beta Barack: Nancy Pelosi moots him so she and Harry Reid can do business...

The new Bob Woodwood book has some revelations of disfunction and discord in the Obama Administration and the Democrats.  

Who's your Mama!  Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
did not fear President Obama:

Woodward recounts an episode early in his presidency when then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were hammering out final details of the stimulus bill. 

Obama phoned in to deliver a "high-minded message," he writes. Obama went on so long that Pelosi "reached over and pressed the mute button on her phone," so they could continue to work without the president hearing that they weren't paying attention.