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From Chrysler creditors (see\u00a0my column today<\/a>) to liberal Ron Fournier to conservative National Review, the testimonials continue to come corroborating Bob Woodward\u2019s account of a White House culture of intimidation.<\/p>\n Detroit native \u2013 and former Washington AP bureau chief \u2013 Fournier is a veteran member of Washington\u2019s media establishment. Yet, like Woodward, he is stunned by the Chicago\u00a0\u00a0Way tactics of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n After White House spokes-pitbull Jay Carney accused Woodward of being \u201cwillfully wrong\u201d in exposing the White House sequestration fib, \u201cI was struck by the fact that Carney\u2019s target has a particular history with White House attacks,\u201d\u00a0writes Fournier<\/a>\u00a0in The National Journal where he is now editor. \u201cI tweeted: \u2018Obama White House: Woodward is \u201cwillfully wrong.\u201d Huh \u2013 what did Nixon White House have to say about Woodward?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy tweet was not intended to compare Nixon to Obama,\u201d continues Fournier, \u201cbut rather to compare the attack to the press strategies of all the presidents\u2019 men.\u201d Fournier should know. He recounts how he too was at the receiving end of similarly abusive language from an Obama official \u2013 including phrasing that Woodward complained of from Obama official Gene Sperling: \u201cYou will regret staking out that claim.\u201d<\/p>\n Goons do have a way with words.<\/p>\n Over at the conservative National Review, Victor Davis Hansen\u00a0was the headliner Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0with a history of Obama\u2019s brass knuckle tactics.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are plenty of reasons to assume that Barack Obama has established the tenor and methodology of press relations from the very outset of his administration, characterized by expectations of unfailing support, coupled with a general vindictiveness toward his few critics among the press corps,\u201d writes Hansen who then goes on to catalog the Obama team\u2019s Nixonian habit of threatening liberal columnist Lanny Davis, leaking opponents\u2019\u00a0divorce records<\/a>, making\u00a0enemies lists<\/a>, warning state reps that they would be punished if they criticized the stimulus, and so on.<\/p>\n