Posted on 12/08/2014 10:09:23 AM PST by Red Badger
According to retired ABC News journalist Ann Compton, Barack Obama has launched into "profanity-laced" tirades against the press in off-the-record meetings with reporters. In a C-SPAN interview, Compton also derided the President for leading "the most opaque" administration of "any I have covered."
The journalist, who retired in August after a 40-year career, revealed to C-SPAN's Brian Lamb: "I have seen in the last year Barack Obama really angry twice. Both were off the record times. One, profanity-laced where he thought the press was making too much of scandals that he did not think were scandals."
She explained, "And I don't find him apologetic. But I find him willing to stand up to the press and look them in the eye, even though it was off the record and just give us hell."
After Lamb wondered if the President had a point, she chided, "We cover what we are allowed to cover. And when policy decisions and presidents are inaccessible and don't take questions from the press on a regular basis, I think they reap what they sow."
Despite Obama's apparent rage against the press, he hasn't had much to complain about. The Media Research Center documented how journalists covered-up his failures and scandals.
Earlier in the hour-long C-SPAN interview, which aired in October, Compton slammed the "opaque" administration:
ANN COMPTON: Before I walked out the door on September 10, I was a strong voice for complaining that this particular administration has been more opaque than any I have covered about what the President does in the Oval Office everyday. He is far less accessible on photo-ops with meetings. Even some meetings on the record, meeting in the Roosevelt room with financial leaders from, from Wall Street or on issues with environmental groups, or with issues with environmental groups, with public opinion leaders, I think most presidents have been far more forthcoming than the second Obama term, in terms of what the President is doing every day and we almost never get photo-ops.
She added that it's fine for the White House to take its own photographs, but "those same elements should not be blocked from the White House press corps."
Interestingly, on Compton's last day in August, the President called on her for a final question. She chose to ask about the police shooting in Ferguson, not the concerns she expressed to C-SPAN.
(H/T to Heritage's Mike Gonzalez for first noticing Compton's comments and tweeting about them.)
A partial transcript of the October 30 segment is below:
“We cover what we are allowed to cover.............................
Woodward?
Bernstein?
Guess we aren’t the only ones who utter profanity laced tirades against the press.
Substitute “Nixon” for Obama and tell me what would have been the MSM’s reaction for the past 6 years.
[ According to retired ABC News journalist Ann Compton, Barack Obama has launched into “profanity-laced” tirades against the press in off-the-record meetings with reporters. In a C-SPAN interview, Compton also derided the President for leading “the most opaque” administration of “any I have covered.” ]
So is Obama the Media Version of the “Man Bites Dog” story.....
The “Dog” being the Media who is like an Abused Dog who is constantly trying to please it’s master who when leans down and repetedly bites the dog square onthe nose and asks for more abuse.....
It really is Quite DAMNED SICK!!!!
Obama is quite literally BITTING THE HAND THAT FEEDS HIM!!!!!! And is NOT BEING PUNISHED BY THOSE WHO ARE GETTING BITTEN!!!!
This is scary as what happens should somethign bad happens that is a good excuse for him to grasp MORE POWER?????
Makes more wonder why ann’s reporting on obama was so fawning.
Well, the Democrats (and MSM) will have nothing to complain about when the Republicans take charge of the White House in 2017...
[ Woodward?
Bernstein? ]
The REAL “Woodward and Bernsteins” are people like James O’Keefe and Sherly Atkinson...
The FAKE Media “Woodward and Bernsteins” are too busy pissing themselves in the corner of the room liek a beaten abused lapdog after their master (Obama) has yelled at them for doing their job to support him well, but not well enough for him.....
[ Guess we aren’t the only ones who utter profanity laced tirades against the press. ]
Well, we rant for the right reasons....
Obama is biting the media hand that feeds him....
The media has “battered wife syndrome”?
I guess that fits.
The MSM never freaked when covering stories about conservatives that were obvious lies... from "Oberlin" to fake hate messages cut into lesbian skin - to fantasy rapes. As long as the press is attacking white men or conservatives they're merciless.
I have NO sympathy for them whatsoever. They made their bed, let them lie in it.
She degenerated into a propagandist whore and is trying to cover her ass.
What the heck are reporters doing in “off-the-record” meetings with the administration in the FIRST place?
I’ll tell you what those reporters are NOT doing: their dxmn JOBS.
They aren’t reporters anyhow, they’re the propaganda organ of the crooked Marxist administration.
Yes, they’re all “Good Germans” now.
I expected something different after reading the headline, but I was disappointed.
It seems to me that if the press was covering this guy the way they should be,he would probably be in a permanent state of rage.
In his defense, those are just the two you know about, Ann.
And of course, your colleagues in your, uh, profession probably saw more just like those, but never, ever would talk about it.
Thanks Red Badger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zsdk8sRCsg
@ 0:50
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