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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...

Vice President Joe Biden will not be throwing his annual beach party for journalists this summer, POLITICO has learned. Since 2010, Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden have invited top journalists to their home at the Naval Observatory for a beach bash that has included Super Soaker fights, face painting, and a moon bounce. Past guests have included then-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Candy Crowley, MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow, CBS's Bob Schieffer, ABC's Ann Compton, PBS's Gwen Ifill and New York Times reporter David Sanger, among many others. The Vice President's...

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Donned in an ABC News Radio hat, WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was presented with another radio by ABC's Ann Compton, from VP and General Manager of ABC News Radio Steve Jones. Compton says "what impressed Gibbs the most was Jones' note reminding the White House that 235 million people listen to radio every week. (Take that, Twitter!)" Dear Mr. Gibbs, We heard you say yesterday that you don't have a radio so we are very pleased to send you one. You can join the 235-million people weekly that listen to the radio, according to the National Association of Broadcasters.

Her over excited voice is like chalk on blackboard. She speaks with a phony air of authority while spinning for the Donks and the left. I hear her all the time on ABC radio news, I don't tune into ABC TV but she's all over that too since she got promoted to White House correspondent. If I'm driving I turn the radio off when I hear her.