Jan Brewer: Obama Was 'Pretty Thin-Skinned' In Comments About Book (VIDEO)

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) on Wednesday evening reflected upon her testy encounter with President Obama earlier in the day, saying he had proven himself to be "thin-skinned" with his comments about her book.

On Wednesday afternoon, Obama touched down in Phoenix and was greeted by Brewer on the tarmac. They reportedly "spoke intensely for a few minutes." Brewer said it was because "he was a little disturbed about my book," particularly a passage in which she had depicted Obama as "patronizing" during an earlier visit.

(Watch video of the exchange below)

Brewer has since addressed the issue in a number of interviews, claiming that President Obama had insisted on talking about the treatment he had received in her book, rather than the economic issues currently facing her state.

"He was somewhat thin-skinned and a little tense to say the least. I was trying to be very calm," Brewer told radio host Mike Broomhead on KFYI radio, according to BuzzFeed.

She repeated similar comments in an interview with reporters on the tarmac, shown above, saying, "I thought that he was pretty thin-skinned."

And in a later interview with Fox News' Greta Van Sustern, she defended her book and used the same term to jab Obama.

"The bottom line is the book is factual. The book is true. I want our borders secured. I want our nation protected. He wants amnesty. We're never going to agree on that. So I don't know why he was surprised by my book," she said. "He evidently is and thin-skinned in regards to it."

The controversy over Brewer's characterization of Obama dates back to an Oval Office meeting in 2010. At the time she had called it "very cordial," but in her book she wrote she felt Obama had been "condescending." In an interview in November, she also said she had "felt a little bit like I was being lectured to, and I was a little kid in a classroom, if you will, and he was this wise professor and I was this little kid, and this little kid knows what the problem is and I felt minimized to say the least."

Comments

[rjciraulo]

10:02 PM on 02/04/2012

The President is "thin-skinned" said the lizard.

[cgfe433jr]

03:58 PM on 01/31/2012

Discrespect to The President of The United States of America. Why can't we just get along. Stop not liking a person just because of their race. Please!. Some Americans are so sorry minded. Yet they want to be Americans and respected by other Countries on this Planet Earth. America can't be strong with so many sorry people in it, a country that is suppose to be full of intelligent Caucasians. Google Caucasians. Who gave this word to a race of people. I guess the ones who started the N word. When the Earth come to an END. We will seek help from any one alive. Black or Yellow or Red. It wont matter then.

[lasml]

10:33 AM on 01/30/2012

All you people that think that the main media is not bias. Go to Newsbusters or if you want just google it and you will see that in 2006 NBC Brian Williams did the same think to President Bush. So if you want to call her disrepectful of the Presidency of the United States, what do you call that when it is done to another President, oh, but that is because it was Bush, right and he stood for the right and not the left. I keep forgot.

[My Comment]

09:24 PM on 01/28/2012

*°º•¤.¸((( OBAMAS ACCOMPLISHMENTS )))¸.¤•º°´:


1-Kept us out of a 2nd Great Depression

2-Passed healthcare reform

3-Saved America’s auto industry

4-Took Out Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

5-Instituted sweeping financial industry reform legislation

6-Appointed two Democratic Supreme Court Justices

7-Greatly improved benefits for veterans

8-Lifted Bush restrictions on embryonic stem cell research

9-Repaired our image abroad

10-Signed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

11-Created more private sector jobs in 2010 than during entire Bush years

12-Rescued Captain from Somali pirates

13-Signed law establishing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

14-Cut prescription drug cost for Medicare recipients by 50%

15-Ended Bush administration’s CIA program of “enhanced interrogation methods”

16-Instituted tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses

17-Signed bill to provide health care to 11 million kids

18-Lifted hate crime laws in the US

19-Reformed student loan program

20-Signed nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia

21-Passed legislatio¬n to improve the environment

22-Got us out of Iraq

23-Eliminated Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki

24- Eliminated Gaddafi

25-Got our Troops back!

26-Tax Cut

27-Extended Unemployment Benefits


DO YOU WANT ME TO KEEP ON GOING…
OR WAS THAT NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?


But you’re welcome to vote for:

The Drunk, The Adulter or The Homophobics with NO brains!!

[va giftd1]

09:34 PM on 01/28/2012

Thank you!

[PrezObamaSupporter]

10:28 PM on 01/28/2012

Couldn't have said it better!

[PrezObamaSupporter]

06:37 PM on 01/28/2012

He is such a gentleman.
So in control of his emotions.
What a wonderful example for our kids and our country...
For the world.
Thank you Mr. President.

[duyno]

04:18 PM on 01/30/2012

But he is afraid of a Little women Gov.

[vcgh2000]

06:09 PM on 01/30/2012

I do not see it as fear. What I see is that he is giving her the respect that she does not give him.
Maybe in a few more years of her flap-ping her jaw, then he will tell her to take a hike.

[DrD2013]

12:41 PM on 01/28/2012

Why are people surprised that our Divider In Chief was upset with what she said about him? Egomaniacs hate criticism, especially from the opposite sex. He only likes women that agree with him, like sheep.

[PrezObamaSupporter]

06:36 PM on 01/28/2012

Where are your morals?

[duyno]

04:20 PM on 01/30/2012

What do morals have to do with that statement? DrD2013 is correct, Obama is so used to his yes men around him, he does not know how to handle a person who calls him to task. He believes his own hype.

[Bahati Sobukwe]

10:30 AM on 01/28/2012

The Country never recovered from the sexual freedom and anything goes attitudes that piggy-backed on the black 60s Civil Rights era. The hatred took the lives of both Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and caused many Civil Rights workers deaths. The Country has never healed from slavery. Any attempt is always kicked to the ground. There are going to be consquences from this range of hate for this black man's presidency--wait and see!
Disrespect like Brewer and Wilson needed to had been niped in the bud three years ago!
!

[duyno]

04:21 PM on 01/30/2012

Oh for Gods sake. Get over it. It was not a race issue. That is the only line you Libs know.

[Bahati Sobukwe]

08:34 AM on 01/31/2012

Yeah! You're right. Have you ever heard a Representative holler out on the floor, "You lie!" to a white President? Or a Representative wag their finger in a white President's face in public? Listen, be a racist if you want to, but please be honest! And know this, if you waddle like a duck, quack like a duck, Mr. Conservative you are a duck! Another tip, everything in America is tinged with race. And don't you forget it!

[Balzy26]

08:03 AM on 01/28/2012

what a great thinker and speaker Jan Brewer is. Google her and 'news debate'...

[1 Hawk 1]

07:21 AM on 01/28/2012

Big deal. You earn respect, it is not inherited by title or position. Id love to see 99% of the crooked congress indicted and thrown in jail (all parties).

[yorktown1979]

01:08 AM on 01/28/2012

I'd like to see one her State Troopers get in her face with that pointy finger and see how long they had a job! A person may or may not have respect for the person holding the Oval Office but they are still obligated to respect the Office of the Presidency. How disrespectful our Governors have become! This one should have been taken away in hand cuffs and charged with attempted assault on the President of The United States!

[duyno]

04:22 PM on 01/30/2012

Oh was the itiy bity President afraid of the big bad lady. BOO HOO

[thov76]

08:17 PM on 01/27/2012

That's the problem with Republicans, they are always pointing the finger at everybody else instead of back at themselves. If she thinks he made her feel like a "little kid" and intimidated then that is her stigma. She is just trying to sell more books when all the while she is making a fool of herself. She is too old to be name calling and throwing temper tantrums. Her means of "welcome" to the President was very unprofessional and if she was part of such a great turn around for AZ then she should do what any other educated business person would do and present the President with a proposal for these changes, not whine like a "little kid". You get what you give.

[prog1964]

11:56 PM on 01/27/2012

Baaaaaaaaa!!!(to the sheeple)

[Peppers Dad]

04:53 PM on 01/27/2012

I WANT THE NEXT FACIAL PEEL! I've seen the pattern before and I know the skin will produce an overlay of the NYC subway system.

[Babis]

04:07 PM on 01/27/2012

Most Americans have no idea who she is. They all know Obama. She's trying to sell more books.

[My Comment]

09:12 PM on 01/28/2012

And try to create a name for herself so she can problally run for 2016!!

[KickstandCat]

03:52 PM on 01/27/2012

Jan, you ARE minimized! Soneone ought to teach you about manners and respect.

[Yoohoo Pizza]

10:12 PM on 01/28/2012

Oh get off your high horse. I'm proud of her. Obama is far more concerned about protecting ILLEGAL ALIENS and IGNORING THOSE LAWS than he is with protecting American Citizens. His signing of the NDAA prives it.

[sisvelma]

11:39 AM on 01/27/2012

It is down right disrespectful for anyone to put their finger in the face of the President of the United States of America. Her actions were simply inexcusable.