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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEx-ABC Reporter Recalls Obama’s ‘Profanity-Laced’ Rant Against the Press
Former ABC News reporter Ann Compton recently revealed on C-SPAN that she heard President Obama go on a profane tirade against the press in the past year.
Compton explained that the president went on a profanity-laced tirade, where he thought the press was making too much of scandals that he didnt think were scandals. And there was another time, she recalls, when he scolded the media for not understanding the limits he has with foreign policy.
She said that Obamas willing to face off with the press like that just to give us hell, and used the opportunity to take a shot at the current White House for cutting off press access.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ex-abc-reporter-recalls-obamas-profanity-laced-rant-against-the-press/
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Thanks for posting this, Catwoman. I just doubt Ms. Compton...a lot.
Cha
(297,446 posts).. but, it's not like reporters lie and manufacture the news at abc and elsewhere. Jon Karl comes to mind and he's still there.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)PBO is so controlled, so logical, so deliberate in his speech and actions. To do that to the WHPC is to invite real problems. I dunno, I just doubt it.
Cha
(297,446 posts)living in Indonesia.
I just know I'm not taking any spurned vindictive reporter's word about what the President said. "Obama won't talk to them.. they manufacture scandals".. that's true enough.
The President has been going on non-traditional media outlets this week.. BET and The Colbert Report..
http://www.bet.com/news/politics/2014/12/08/in-bet-exclusive-obama-talks-race-and-racism.html
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steve2470
(37,457 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)but I just don't see president O loosing his cool like that.
Me on the other hand I can see that happening
steve2470
(37,457 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)We can wait
Cha
(297,446 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)four letter words.
Speaking of the press and integrity, why exactly is Ann Compton telling this story now and "taking a shot at the current White House?"
Could it be that this will be sent as her audition tape for a job at Fox?
Someone should have asked her why the press kept reporting on the "scandals" when they knew what they were saying had been discredited?
elleng
(131,030 posts)It was an interesting and lengthy interview about her career, on C-Span's Q+A, done now at her retirement.
elleng
(131,030 posts)MOST of which was NOT about this matter. It was informative and interesting, and credible.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)this press corps is worthless. useless. and completely full of crap.
elleng
(131,030 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Profanity-Laced Rant Against the Press? I don't care to watch. Since you already have watched it and found it to be "informative and interesting, and credible", would you please tell us what President Obama said?
It could be "interesting" (if not "informative" or "credible" to those of us who can't imagine our president "ranting".
elleng
(131,030 posts)On this mini part of it that mediaite has decided to highlight, 'She said he went on a profanity-laced tirade, where he thought the press was making too much of scandals that he didnt think were scandals. And there was another time, she recalls, when he scolded the media for not understanding the limits he has with foreign policy.' She didn't go further, as I recall.
If you are truly interested in details, watch the entire interview. http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4518091/ann-compton
still_one
(92,309 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)Thank you in advance.
still_one
(92,309 posts)watch Bloomberg television, and even though they are mostly a business network, other than straight stories, if they are discussing issues, they go out of their way to provide all sides.
3catwoman3
(24,024 posts)...private place in which to let fly with some profanity laced rants about all the obstructionist RWNJs he has to deal with.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)That's totally fucking unacceptable.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I'd have done more than swear. I'd have gone into a drunken tirade complete with throwing of beer bottles and threats to "Seal Team Six" those MF'ers who keep talking shit about me.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)And does it on the record! Has she no shame?
JHB
(37,161 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)who hasn't sworn about the press?
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)(Holding my fingers 1/2 inch apart.)
They did it to Clinton, and they've been trying to do it to Obama for the last 6 years.
They are going to tear down Obama the same damn way!!
Anybody here want to bet against me??
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Cha
(297,446 posts)Thanks Obama!
"She said that Obamas willing to face off with the press like that just to give us hell, and used the opportunity to take a shot at the current White House for cutting off press access."
Thanks Cat!
what the hell did they expect????
Cha
(297,446 posts)This is my response..
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,425 posts)After all they do day in and day out to tear him down and they really expect us to care if he did, in fact, go on a profanity-laced rant against the press.
To quote Buffy, "Let me take this opportunity to NOT care!"
Cha
(297,446 posts)TheObamaDiary.com @TheObamaDiary
Photo of the Day: President Obama ignoring GOP-fake-Benghazi-emails-shill @jonkarl .... delicious:
Jon Karl.. abc..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023811157
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MADem
(135,425 posts)Cha
(297,446 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)I hope he put it that way.
Cha
(297,446 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,584 posts)I don't read the President that way. But even if he did, so what? If that's the worst thing he does who f*uckin' cares? (My own profanity laced rant)
riversedge
(70,267 posts)tattle.
lpbk2713
(42,764 posts)I certainly won't hold it against him for being human.
Iggo
(47,561 posts)Where's a reporter when you need one, right?
Oh, wait...
PSPS
(13,607 posts)Even if true, what's the big deal? Everyone hates the (now solely profit-driven) press corpse.
shireen
(8,333 posts)Most of them are utterly ridiculous.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)The press has been hounding Obama since day one. I wouldn't blame Obama for fighting back.
Skittles
(153,171 posts)WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT
WhiteAndNerdy
(365 posts)I think it's funny.
underpants
(182,854 posts)Skittles
(153,171 posts)always love seeing those who go way back
underpants
(182,854 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)I think President Obama has been an absolute saint. I would lost my fucking mind at least a few times by now.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)I always thought it would be great if the president could have one of those big blaster water pistols like the one I gave my grandson handy during press conferences
WhiteAndNerdy
(365 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)that we have repeatedly paid millions of dollars to find that there is no scandal?
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)nilesobek
(1,423 posts)They cannot open their mouths without lying. ABC News? LOL!
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)be. Their willing participation in these acts of right-wing character assassination have caused thinking people to doubt ANYTHING they have to say anymore.
Hekate
(90,758 posts)The ever-lovin crap this President has had to put up with from FOX and the MSM has just been beyond the pale. As far as all of them are concerned, the default party 100% of the time is the GOP; no matter what the issue is, their only question is how this will affect the GOP.
It would make me cuss, too.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Not profanity!! Well, I never...
MADem
(135,425 posts)No wonder she is an EX-ABC reporter!
What is it with people who don't understand what OTR means in "journalist-speak?"
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)...rather than media that flog non-scandals.
Got it.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)And followed that up by telling a sitting US Senator to "Go fuck yourself."
sendero
(28,552 posts)... Obama in a profanity-laced tirade against the press. They have, over the last 3 decades or so, utterly failed in their mission to inform the electorate, a primary function in any Democracy.
They are a bunch of bought and paid-for whores not worthy of an ounce of respect. They have virtually pulled the switch that executed Democracy in this country.
Profanity is the least I would wish on them. Fuck them all.
Javaman
(62,532 posts)mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)her presidents confused, poor thing.
Bush moves Helen Thomas' seat to back
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2847.html
pre-scripted questions during the Bush years
"For each press conference, the White House press secretary asks the reporters for their questions, selects six or seven of the questions to answer and those reporters are the only ones called upon to ask their questions during the press conference."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1447611
Just in case, no submitted questions were softballs, they had Jeff Gannon to call on
Gannon routinely obtained daily passes to White House briefings, attending four Bush press conferences and appearing regularly at White House press briefings. Although he did not qualify for a Congressional press pass, Gannon was given daily passes to White House press briefings "after supplying his real name, date of birth and Social Security number." Gannon came under public scrutiny for his lack of a journalistic background prior to his work with Talon and his involvement with various homosexual escort service websites using the professional name "Bulldog."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon
as a backup, just in case Jeff, the Cannon, Gannon was too busy elsewhere in the WH to attend a presser this method was given a trial run
The agency much maligned for its sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina over two years ago arranged to have FEMA employees play the part of reporters at the event Tuesday and question Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy director.
The questions were soft and gratuitous.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21490838/ns/politics-white_house/t/chertoff-blasts-femas-faux-press-conference/#.VIhIJHotDIU
This method was also given a trial run:
Armstrong Williams was paid $241,000 to glorify the No Child Left Behind Act in his columns
Maggie Gallagher was paid $41,5oo "in two federal contracts from the Department of Health and Human Services for authoring brochures, a magazine article and a report and briefing government employees in support of Bush's marriage initiative, which redirected welfare funds, previously used to reward states for lowering out-of-wedlock child birth rates, to pay for premarital counseling and abstinence education."
then there was
Michael McManus is the third person to be implicated, in an article by Tom Hamburger of The Los Angeles Times on January 28. It was revealed that McManus, who is a self-described marriage advocate and writes the "Ethics & Religion" column that appears in 50 regional newspapers, was paid through a subcontractor with a consulting firm that does work for the Department of Health and Human Services. The payments were said to be $4,000 plus travel expenses, with an additional $49,000 paid to his organization, Marriage Savers Inc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_administration_payment_of_columnists
I guess her tender sensibilities were offended because the black president swore. Not that Bush, nor Chaney were ever caught off-mike swearing and telling people to go fuck themselves, calling journalists assholes or anything like that.
Nope it is the black Democrat that gets her umbrage because he swore when talking about Benghazi, a "scandal" that is not only has been repeatedly debunked, but also after 7 or 8 senate super serious investigations has revealed every time nothing was done wrong.
Bless her heart.
butterfly77
(17,609 posts)I thought he should have done it when they jump all over him because he told the truth "The cop acted Stupidly" when arresting Professor Gates in his own house.