Thanks for posting this, Catwoman. I just doubt Ms. Compton...a lot.

.. 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.

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.

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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but I just don't see president O loosing his cool like that.
Me on the other hand I can see that happening

We can wait

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?

It was an interesting and lengthy interview about her career, on C-Span's Q+A, done now at her retirement.

MOST of which was NOT about this matter. It was informative and interesting, and credible.

this press corps is worthless. useless. and completely full of crap.

‘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&quot to those of us who can't imagine our president "ranting".

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 didn’t 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

Thank you in advance.

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.

...private place in which to let fly with some profanity laced rants about all the obstructionist RWNJs he has to deal with.

That's totally fucking unacceptable.

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.

And does it on the record! Has she no shame?

who hasn't sworn about the press?

(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??

Thanks Obama!

"She said that Obama’s 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????

This is my response..

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!"

I hope he put it that way.

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)

tattle.

Where's a reporter when you need one, right?

Oh, wait...

Even if true, what's the big deal? Everyone hates the (now solely profit-driven) press corpse.

Most of them are utterly ridiculous.

The press has been hounding Obama since day one. I wouldn't blame Obama for fighting back.

WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT

I think it's funny.

always love seeing those who go way back

I think President Obama has been an absolute saint. I would lost my fucking mind at least a few times by now.

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

that we have repeatedly paid millions of dollars to find that there is no scandal?

They cannot open their mouths without lying. ABC News? LOL!

be. Their willing participation in these acts of right-wing character assassination have caused thinking people to doubt ANYTHING they have to say anymore.

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.

Not profanity!! Well, I never...

No wonder she is an EX-ABC reporter!

What is it with people who don't understand what OTR means in "journalist-speak?"

...rather than media that flog non-scandals.

Got it.

And followed that up by telling a sitting US Senator to "Go fuck yourself."

... 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.

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

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

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

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 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.