CBS Reporter: White House Official ‘Screamed’ & ‘Cussed’ at Me for Coverage of ‘Fast and Furious

The Blaze ^ | 10/4/11 | Jonathan Seidl

[Nachum]

CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson has been doggedly covering the ATF and DOJ scandal surrounding the gunwalking “Fast and Furious” case. And now she’s coming out with some juicy details about her attempts to get information from the DOJ and the White House regarding the case.

On Laura Ingraham’s radio show Tuesday, Attkisson said she was “screamed” and “cussed” at by the White House while trying to get information last Friday, and that a DOJ spokesperson “yelled” at her while she was trying to get clarification on the case. And she named names.

Ingraham: So they were literally screaming at you?

Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me.

Ingraham: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?

Attkisson: Eric Schultz Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.

Why such the reaction from the spokespeople?

“They will tell you that I’m the only reporter–as they told me–that is not reasonable,” she told Ingraham. “They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it.”

You can listen to her tell the story below (the revelation initially comes at the beginning and then picks up again at the 6:00 mark):

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[Repulican Donkey]

Michelle is answering the phone now?

[bcsco]

William LaJeunesse on Fox has been working hard on this story as well.

[Munz]

HOW DARE CBS question The Won’s Regime.

They are not supposed to do that. I thought CBS was on teh team coming in for the big win!

Oh no .. does this mean that they are going to start actually reporting NEWS about Obama and his cronies instead of his propaganda?

I think Hell just froze over.

[rodguy911]

Seems Sen Cornyn may be a bit unreasonable as well. I just heard him on Bill Bennett,he closed out the show. At least they know what is going on up there in Senate land.Now will they actually do anything? Question remains.

[OKSooner]

Yeah and she can whup your butt too. :)

[MrB]

Reporters’ starry-eyed idealism (”I just want to make the world a better place”)

runs up against the harsh realities of communism.

[Munz]

yeah well when they are not toting the party line she see’s what she has been supporting this whole time.
I wonder how it feels to be on the other end of the whip now?

Perhaps she can sympathize with the “right wing wackos” they love to report on so much now?

I wonder of she is actually disenfranchised enough now to go to a TEA party and report the reality of them .. no racism, just everyday people trying to regain our country?

NAW ... too much to ask. She will be back in love w Obama and co soon enough ..

[The_Media_never_lie]

Would not be that hard to do. According to Obama I’ve gotten a little soft.

[MrB]

The promise of socialism/communism is strong,
and it plays to the ego, just as the serpent did in Gen 3.

“You can be gods!”

And, you can add in “you get to feel good about yourself” to boot.

[unixfox]

And Watergate was entirely domestic. F & F is an international crime.

Like The Hague will do anything to their dear dictator.

[crosshairs]

Hey CBS! You lie down with dogs, you’re going to get fleas.

[pabianice]

And as we know from Greek tragedies, after the screaming comes the gouging-out of one’s own eyes...

[Kenny Bunk]

If the 2006 Odinga Campaign and subsequent massacre of Christians was not a story*, why should "Fast and Furious" be a story?
I also suggest that these heads-full-of-mush reporters get their surgically enhanced butts down to Mexico and talk to whatever passes for government officials in that cacadero ... a leetle bird told me the Mexicans are royally pissed about this.

except briefly with BBC newsreel footage, which documented it for all time before being pulled.

[rcrngroup]

You got that right! A couple of quick punches to the face, and take that slimmy RAT bastard down, crying like a baby!

[CitizenM]

Although F & F makes Watergate look like sandbox play, you bring up a good point. That of a pardon for Holder and Obama.

I suspect, if this keeps up (and we patriotic Americans don't lose interest) that Obama will step down and not run for re-election. In exchange for a pardon. If he does not step down then, of course, when he loses the election, he knows the next Republican president will act to prosecute him.

You can already see that the fire and interest is gone. So, I suspect he will make a move to step down in about two months, just after Christmas. Only so he and all his family and their staff can take one more holiday vacation that gets paid for by the taxpayers

[CitizenM]

Although F & F makes Watergate look like sandbox play, you bring up a good point. That of a pardon for Holder and Obama.

I suspect, if this keeps up (and we patriotic Americans don't lose interest) that Obama will step down and not run for re-election. In exchange for a pardon. If he does not step down then, of course, when he loses the election, he knows the next Republican president will act to prosecute him.

You can already see that the fire and interest is gone. So, I suspect he will make a move to step down in about two months, just after Christmas. Only so he and all his family and their staff can take one more holiday vacation that gets paid for by the taxpayers

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

yes I agree.

http://thehill.com/opinion/editorials/185567-dem-unity-minus-obama

[nutmeg]

Complete Audio of CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson in her interview with Laura Ingraham

Thank you, Nachum for this thread and for the YouTube link in #2 above. Thanks for the ping, STARWISE.

[Joe Brower]

The White House's vitriolic reaction to this woman's queries reminds me of the axiom that none are so defensive as those who know they are guilty.