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:
What a baby
Yeah...just...wow. Bears repeating.
Her news reports were sickening in their praise for Obama.
Old “breathless Ann”
I wondered what happened to her, she used to be on the radio news reports on the hour.
I assume that's sort of like an orgasm for journ-0-lists...
The key word here is retired. When she reported for ABC
News Ann Compton regularly lied to cover up for Obama. Her coverage of Obama was so fawning and sycophantic that it was embarrassing.
Now that she has retired, she is trying to pretend she was a credible reporter concerned about the Obama Administration's constant obstruction, obfuscation and downright lying.
She never expressed the slightest concerned when she was at ABC.
It could be he is getting his visit from his Aunt Flo.
She sounds so shallow! For her, the opacity problem would be solved with a few more "pictures"? :(
Yeah, big talk now after retiring. She doted on 0bama in fawning voice in her coverage even as this was happening behind the scenes. She was also nasty and cynical in her coverage of President Bush. She is a hypocrite and her tiny little bit of honesty in an interview is too little too late.
She made a mockery of the purpose of the media, the supposed Fourth Estate. Nothing but a DNC propaganda hack.
From what I’ve seen, according to Bernstein, there never was and never will be a scandal like Watergate. He lives to preserve HIS legacy in that regard.
A journalist blames King Zero for something that is the fault of COWARDLY journalists. Ann is a blamer just like King Zero is. The media doesn’t investigate BECAUSE THEY ARE COMPLICIT IN THE COVER-UPS.
Obama screaming profanity-laced tirades at the press? No wonder he has a sore throat. But his real problems are higher up. Instead of worrying about what’s going on in his throat, he needs to get his head examined. He’s not acting like a rational human being.
WHY HASN'T THE LIBERAL MEDIA INTERVIEWED LOIS LERNER???? Apparently, it's not very difficult to catch her out in public, so.. WHY NOT?
I think you’ve naive if you believe any of the reporters in the media are doing anything but what their bosses expect. Not excusing, just being realistic. This is a job for them, they are not there to do our thinking for us.
Ann Compton always bothered me. Her news reports heard on ABC radio prior to her retirement, were fawning breathless accounts of our heroic CiC fighting the good fight against those nasty republicans. Her tone and cadence were like she was describing royalty. Her criticism now of Omoeba rings hollow.
So when reporters are retired or fired we begin to get a bit of truth.
Her complaints NOW are her just trying to have it BOTH ways.... your typical Liberal tactic.
Awesome snark picture!
Love it.
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