The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Speaking on MSNBC's Morning Joe  on Wednesday, journalist Bob Woodward had some interesting comments regarding Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, as he said the following: "There is something unrelaxed about the way she is communicating. Has nobody told her that the microphone works? Because she always keeps it up here. The genius of Reagan was...Reagan kept it down low." NPR's Cokie Roberts responded to Woodward's critique by saying, "These are rallies, though, and it's hard to do that at a rally." Kristin Soltis Anderson then added, "When she's loud and feisty, she's trying to support this narrative that she's fighting for us." Later in the show, Woodward brought up the topic again, saying, "I'm sorry to dwell on the tone issue, but there is something here, where Hillary Clinton suggests that she's almost not comfortable with herself. And self-acceptance is something that you communicate ...

In a back-and-forth e-mail exchange with White House economic adviser Gene Sperling, fiction-posing-as-nonfiction author Bob Woodward told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that Sperling had threatened him in the e-mail, saying, "It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, you're going to regret doing something that you believe in." So, just what did Sperling say in this e-mail? Let me share that bit of information with you. Sperling said: "I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today. I do understand your problems with a couple of our statements in the fall -- but feel on the other hand that you focus on a few specific trees that gives a very wrong perception of the forest. but perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. But I do truly believe you should rethink your comment about saying that Potus (President of the United States) asking for revenues is moving the goal post. I know you may not believe this, but as a friend, I t...