Soup, the thing about Woodward is that he's not just a WaPo reporter. He's also an assistant managing editor. So the White House clown, Sperling, is not taking on just Woodward. Woodward is management at the WaPo, so Sperling is waging war on that paper as well. Fox, WaPo, like there's any difference. /
My bet is that Sperling never heard of Bob Woodward and probably thought of him as some old newspaper reporter guy, of little relevence. No one can accuse anyone in the O'Bammy Adminstration, from top to bottom, of knowing the least little bit of History.