{"id":7578,"date":"2014-12-09T19:37:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:37:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-12-09T19:37:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:37:45","slug":"ann_compton_obama_curses_out_press_in_private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/12\/09\/ann_compton_obama_curses_out_press_in_private\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Compton: Obama Curses Out Press in Private"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Ann Compton. This was Sunday night on C-SPAN\u2019s Q&A, Brian Lamb interviewing the former ABC News White House correspondent Ann Compton.<\/p>\n

Brian Lamb said, “Now, how many other presidents were that aware of what they said to you, and how many just didn\u2019t pay attention at all and you had no personal reaction from them?” I don\u2019t know what that\u2019s about. I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s got a book. He\u2019s asking her something specific, but it\u2019s gotta be other than, “Okay, you\u2019re the White House correspondent. How aware were you that the president was listening?” It\u2019s gotta be more than that. Doesn\u2019t matter. Her answer (forget the context) stands alone.<\/p>\n

COMPTON: 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 didn\u2019t think were scandals. Another where he took us to task for not understanding the limits he has with foreign policy and the way he\u2019s dealing with the Middle East and, uh, Iraq and Afghanistan. And I don\u2019t find him apologetic, but I find him willing to stand up to the press and look \u2019em in the eye — even though it was off the record — and just give us hell.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: The key was “off the record.” Hey, Ann, where was this when you were still working at ABC? Is this not remarkable? The president asks you to go off the record and then lambastes you people with obscenity after obscenity after obscenity? It says something about the guy. I\u2019m not sure what. But I\u2019m tell you what I don\u2019t get. If I\u2019m Barack Obama? Literally now, if I\u2019m Barack Obama (snorts), I love the media. <\/p>\n

My God, they\u2019re the biggest idiots on earth. I can do no wrong. This guy must be must be one heck of a narcissist. If this guy thinks that he\u2019s getting unfair media coverage, then that tells us a lot about him not the media. There has never in my lifetime… Well, I take it back. JFK, John Kennedy, the media? Pshew! That relationship? Whew! That was love at first sight and forever. But this is a close second other than JFK. <\/p>\n

I was nine\/10 years old with JFK, so I\u2019m not really… My memories are not mature. (interruption) Do they push back on him? You\u2019re wondering, when he goes off on them do they push back? (interruption) I don\u2019t think so, because she points out he never apologizes. But no, they don\u2019t push back. I\u2019m sure they feel upbraided like by a parent. I\u2019m sure they walk out worried that he\u2019s mad at them. That\u2019s the nature of the press relationship with Obama. <\/p>\n