Obama got plenty of good use out of the Internet in 2008 and 2012. (Just ask Axey!) But now, since everything is all about him, we can just zip it.

Courtesy of Newsbusters, here are some words about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, emitted from the hole in Chuck Todd’s beard:

You know, what I wonder how many people realized at the end, when he did his, you know, there’s always this part at the end where they get serious for a minute. And it’s usually the part where presidents say, “You know, I think the press has a good job to do and I understand what they have to do.” He didn’t say that. He wasn’t very complimentary of the press. You know, we all can do better. It did seem, I thought his potshots joke-wise, and then the serious stuff about the Internet, the rise of the Internet media and social media, and all that stuff. He hates it. Okay? He hates this part of the media. He really thinks that the sort of the buzzification — this isn’t just about Buzzfeed or Politico and all this stuff — he thinks that sort of coverage of political media has hurt political discourse. He hates it. And I think he was trying to make that clear last night.

Obama was just fine with the “buzzification of political media” when it catapulted him into power, and when it kept him there despite his atrocious record. Now he hates it, because it no longer suits him. Now we’re seeing an aspiring despot who doesn’t think he has anything to lose by finally revealing who he really is.

Except to those of us who’ve known who he really is for the last five years, that is. This is merely further validation. We told you so. You didn’t listen. This is what you get when you mess with us.

We talk back.

(Hat tip: Ed Driscoll)