Where's this temper the article is supposed to save us all from?

That was pretty mellow for a flip out.

Not to rush to McCain's defense, but journalists want to see their subjects riled. It makes for better news. Whatever the exchange was, it may not have been 100% his anger problem.

But he's from Arizona, so it's a dry crazy.

i hate these "Oh my god he went freaking crazy" moments the media all put out there every year. I couldn't believe it made any difference in Howard Dean's campaign, and I'm always amazed when they pick some little thing out from the other candidate and try to make something out of it in the same way.

"can i ask you about your ummm... why are you so angry?"

lol

I would flip out much worse than that if I had to answer dumb questions from reporters every day.

Dancin_In_Anson: That was pretty mellow for a flip out.

Wake me when he pimp slaps her

And you know it, too. No. You know it, too. No. You do know. You do know. Woooo-uuuu-oooo-uuu-ooo!

anybody who spent years in a torturous prison camp
has gotta have a lot of issues...

hero?
well a hero wouldn't have gotten caught in the first place,
or would at least have broken outta there

you don't want a president
who's not cool enough to do that

You know... I'm beginning to notice a common pattern (actually I've noticed it my whole life, but just felt like saying something). People (who often call themselves "journalists") in the media are f*cking stupid, and make sh*t up to make money. They're making a mockery of our political system. In fact, without these tottering, fen-sucked dewberries, we'd not have the dirty political game.

It's amazing that I could probably get a better, more detailed, more honest account of an event from the average free blogger on the internet than the average beat reporter or asshat writer for the Times or "political show" host on CNN.

0Icky0:

But he's from Arizona, so it's a dry crazy.

Beautiful!

This campaign is going to be so much fun....

platkat: Not to rush to McCain's defense, but journalists farkwads like Ahmadinejad and Kim want to see their subjects riled.

0Icky0: But he's from Arizona, so it's a dry crazy.

HA. HA HA HA.

You win one internets.

That's too bad. I was hoping the headline meant that he was back to rejecting some of Bush's policies with a rare double flip flop. It's a shame he's just back to being a grouchy old guy.

So, wait, McCain lied in 2004, got called for it today, and flipped out about it. That's some 'straight talk' there, Lou!

Pathetic.

Wanting to keep a private conversation private?

HERO, dude. About time someone in that cesspool we call Washington learns values.

In the New Yorker a few issues back, there was a pretty even handed profile of McCain. The reporter noted, however, that McCain used his threat of temper as leverage against many of his staffers, half-jokingly telling them he would fire them, they were incompetent, etc.

/sounds like every bad boss you've ever had.

blustering away, talking absolute jibberish, getting freaked out

this guy is starting to look like yet another talentless gop lightweight

Meh, the guy doesn't want to talk about a private conversation he had years ago with John Kerry. This isn't that big of a deal.

It was an NY Times reporter -- asking a stupid line of questions.

After her report suggesting that someone suggested that maybe someone might infer that he had an affair with a lobbyist -- and they ran the story on page one, I wonder why they even let the NY times on the plane.

Clearly the Times is trying to make news -- they are bored with just reporting it.

Fart_Machine

why didn'r he just say "that was a private conversation, which i am not prepared to elaborate upon," rather than "ugh ugh ugh ugh snarl blather blather ra ra whinge woo la la la private conversation"

the guy is supposed to be running for president of the free world, ffs

21-7-b: blustering away, talking absolute jibberish, getting freaked out

this guy is starting to look like yet another talentless gop lightweight

It's just the Democrat in him coming out.

Its to hard to tell how angry he is without video, so given reporters tendency to exaggerate this kind of stuff it probably wasn't that bad. Then again a temper that I wouldn't consider that bad for most people is still kind of an off-putting quality when considering someone for president.

whizbangthedirtfarmer: sounds like every bad boss you've ever had.

yea between this and his age I'm sure he'll do a great job of running the executive branch.

Propaganda.

whizbangthedirtfarmer: In the New Yorker a few issues back, there was a pretty even handed profile of McCain. The reporter noted, however, that McCain used his threat of temper as leverage against many of his staffers, half-jokingly telling them he would fire them, they were incompetent, etc.

/sounds like every bad boss you've ever had.

not any boss i've ever had. then again, i'm not incompetent

Beast_Ice: Its to hard to tell how angry he is without video, so given reporters tendency to exaggerate this kind of stuff it probably wasn't that bad.

ummmm... there's a video in the link. but don't let that slow you down

puffy999: You know... I'm beginning to notice a common pattern (actually I've noticed it my whole life, but just felt like saying something). People (who often call themselves "journalists") in the media are f*cking stupid, and make sh*t up to make money. They're making a mockery of our political system. In fact, without these tottering, fen-sucked dewberries, we'd not have the dirty political game.

It's amazing that I could probably get a better, more detailed, more honest account of an event from the average free blogger on the internet than the average beat reporter or asshat writer for the Times or "political show" host on CNN.

Epiphany!

/my guess is you are in your twenties

^{/thats about when most people figure out that rich, powerful and the professional "victims" rule this world.
/media is the donkey that rich and powerful ride on to rule us}

cltbuilder

It's just the Democrat in him coming out.

no, not really. it's the idiot in him coming out, as he goes direct to full defensive mode as soon as someone has the audacity to inform him of having attempted to check one of his statements. it's a piss poor performance from him, and you

still, it's good that you can mention gop politicians "coming out" without male prostitutes being involved

As a public figure and a Presidential contender he really needs to act in a dignified way. Temper tantrums are simple not becoming for a public figure.

You and I both know that if Obama or Clinton did something like this, EVERY ONE at FAUX NEWS would have a field day...

Is anyone in America surprised that the agenda-driven Media is doing yet another hitjob on Senator McCain? The NY Times tried derailing his campaign with that despicable smear disguised as "news." Can you imagine the Media ever running a similar story about a Democrat presidential nominee having an affair? Now that their first attempt has failed, the AP is taking it's shot at him. I doubt it will work becaues the American people have come to expect the vitriolic animosity the mainstream media spews daily at Republicans, and that's why we're seeing such a precipitous drop in newspaper circulation across the country.
Americans are just fed up with the hypocricy of the left. Democrats know they can't compete with Republicans in the marketplace of ideas, so they rely on their operatives in the press to sabatoge Republican campaigns.

Megain: ummmm... there's a video in the link. but don't let that slow you down

oh I see, I guess i didn't notice it since it was in a column with advertisements bigger then the video link. I'll go check it out now, thanks.

glaurunge

Is anyone in America surprised that the agenda-driven Media is doing yet another hitjob on Senator McCain? The NY Times tried derailing his campaign with that despicable smear disguised as "news." Can you imagine the Media ever running a similar story about a Democrat presidential nominee having an affair? Now that their first attempt has failed, the AP is taking it's shot at him. I doubt it will work becaues the American people have come to expect the vitriolic animosity the mainstream media spews daily at Republicans, and that's why we're seeing such a precipitous drop in newspaper circulation across the country.
Americans are just fed up with the hypocricy of the left. Democrats know they can't compete with Republicans in the marketplace of ideas, so they rely on their operatives in the press to sabatoge Republican campaigns.

easily the best troll i've seen from you

8/10 pb

From May, 2004:

Asked if Senator Kerry had made such an offer, Mr. McCain said no without hesitation. But asked if the two men had ever discussed it, even casually, he paused for a moment.

'No,' he said finally. 'We really haven't.'

Face it, the reporter called him out on his lie back then, and he flipped out because he was trapped. And some of you dittoheads defend him for getting mad. How the fark is this 'propaganda'? If he's all about 'straight talk' why doesn't he just tell the farking truth instead of obfuscating. Oh, wait, no matter how much of 'maverick' the press wants him to be, he is still just another crooked-ass Republican.

Actually, liberals are going to notice an escalating intolerance with their half-baked, unworkable fantasy mindset as this election progresses, and when McCain is elected President, rest assured that he will begin to take the needed steps to restore integrity to this nation.

Did he call her a farking gook?

Beast_Ice: I'll go check it out now, thanks.

you're welcome. and for the record, i don't think it's that bad

/won't vote for mccain for other reasons, this is pretty much meh to me

skookum: needed steps to restore integrity

I thought your hero President Bush was a gift of the Lord to provide integrity to the White House. Are you saying that he is a failure in that regard?

scavenger
Did he call her a farking gook?

No, a major-league asshole.

"And you know it, too. No. You know it, too. No. You do know. You do know."

Rant-like response detected

Shaggy_C: I thought your hero President Bush was a gift of the Lord to provide integrity to the White House. Are you saying that he is a failure in that regard?

Your irreverent sarcasm aside, yes, Bush should have been allowed to continue his term--without an election. The liberal media more than did its damage to make it appear that some unbelievable percentage like "20 percent" still supported this President. That misconception still pervades.

McCain will expose the loudest most damaging aspects of the liberal media hellbent on overturning policy and bring these criminals to justice.

"YEARGH" ?
I want another yeargh. That was one of my favorite political clips ever to be abused.

McCain in office is going to be fun to watch. Wonder if he is going to get a crazy Veep too.

madmann

very nice

/i hope its reposting, in response to mccain's moments of madness, occurs a lot more before the election than after

meh, he got overly defensive when called out on not keeping his story straight. If any negative aspect can really be made from this it is that his age is starting to affect his memory and awareness of what is going on. Though this is not nearly as good an example as when he didn't know his position on some abstinence only program or when he just named people he knew instead of answering what he would do about something. This could just be reading into things a little to much since we expect to see deteriorated mental capabilities in people his age. However I prefer a president to be sharper then he seems to be in any case even if some or all of this was there when he was younger.

21-7-b: glaurunge

Is anyone in America surprised that the agenda-driven Media is doing yet another hitjob on Senator McCain? The NY Times tried derailing his campaign with that despicable smear disguised as "news." Can you imagine the Media ever running a similar story about a Democrat presidential nominee having an affair? Now that their first attempt has failed, the AP is taking it's shot at him. I doubt it will work becaues the American people have come to expect the vitriolic animosity the mainstream media spews daily at Republicans, and that's why we're seeing such a precipitous drop in newspaper circulation across the country.
Americans are just fed up with the hypocricy of the left. Democrats know they can't compete with Republicans in the marketplace of ideas, so they rely on their operatives in the press to sabatoge Republican campaigns.

easily the best troll i've seen from you

8/10 pb

It would earn an 8.5 if he had successfully mis-spelled hypocrisy as "hypocracy," but alas. Still, a very good effort.

skookum: Shaggy_C: I thought your hero President Bush was a gift of the Lord to provide integrity to the White House. Are you saying that he is a failure in that regard?

Your irreverent sarcasm aside, yes, Bush should have been allowed to continue his term--without an election. The liberal media more than did its damage to make it appear that some unbelievable percentage like "20 percent" still supported this President. That misconception still pervades.

McCain will expose the loudest most damaging aspects of the liberal media hellbent on overturning policy and bring these criminals to justice.

I'd like to call attention to the fact that you're awesome. There were some weak efforts in the past few months, but you're back in peak form with some high-quality material.

/Skooky's biggest fan
//really

megainthis is pretty much meh to me

looks like meh is the general consensus. its hard to see any other reaction to the video after the big deal the headline and article made out of the incident.

From Clevinger of the Penny Arcade boards:

I was watching a minute of O'Rielly (god knows why) and he had Karl Rove on talking about McCain for a few minutes. Rove said people don't know much about McCain and he should really tell more about himself and all the great things he's done, then he gives a story as an example. He says how McCain's wife helped this little Bangladesh girl and then eventually adopted her.

Jesus, what a scumbag (as if it wasn't already apparent enough).

Just to toss that out there.