Actually, it was Carney's ego that could no longer stand the incredulous and sarcastic looks of disdain, not to mention the snickering, of an increasing number of "journalists" in the audience.
For any non-sociopath, the tipping point had been reached long ago, weeks, if not days, after BHO first took office.
Most of Fed officals are sociopaths. They don’t understand the world under their feet, and the people that occupy it in a sympathetic manner. They have no concept of human systems. That’s why the bully competent people out, they are alarmed by folks that actually understand the world.
When they reach critical mass, as they now have, their indifference to the Human condition becomes blatantly obvious.
America needs to target sociopaths as they do mass-murderers, as they share the same mental deviance.
Sociopaths understand two things: people they need to fear and people they need to crush.