I don't know, he didn't seem that angry to me.

Pareene, if his anger actually animates his face I think I wouldn't mind being yelled at by that faux conservative zombie.

really, he has quite a bit to be angry about if you think about it...

Roger Clemens and every other person who has ever lied about something that they are obviously lying about should adopt this strategy.

I like him even more now. I think we need a president who can get really pissed off every now and then.

"How about a little game of solitaire, John?"

Team McCain, here.

When does he get angry?

@TheHonJudgeSmails: No surprise there.

Gee, I wonder if McCain's kids are candidates for that morning TV show that wants to do a segment about spanking ...

That surly old guy just needs a hug.

@TheHonJudgeSmails:party of one around these haunts.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: I punched him on the shoulder once when I was trying to get his attention for an interview. Haven't washed the paw since.

She didn't really mumble "never mind." It was a clear-throated--if exasperated--capitulation, the kind you make to your dickish boyfriend about three-quarters of the way through your doomed relationship.

Dad would have just taken his belt off and gone to town.

Well, he didn't exactly go batshit, but he seemed to turn to color of his tie.

@richardmarxhatesmyhair: No kidding. It's kinda fun that way, though.

@Sarcastro: Good thing it wasn't Bob Dole. Bob Dole's arm doesn't work. Bob Dole doesn't want you to punch Bob Dole.

Really though? I don't get the sense that people around here are as virulently anti-McCain as I might have expected. Liberals kinda have a soft spot for Johnny Mac, I guess? Except for Pareene.

@TheHonJudgeSmails:

Really? I thought he was disrespectful and bullying of a journalist who was asking him about a statement he made several years ago about running mates. The man is running for president and his response was to evade the question, claim "everyone knows the answer," and generally act like an ass.

I don't hate McCain by any stretch of the imagination, but he certainly shouldn't be shocked or outraged when he is asked about prior public statements.

He is SO virile and commanding in that video! I feel a little dizzy...can barely even type...he has my vote...and my heart!

Hey, did you see McCain? Man, someone really rattled his cage.

@karion: I think McCain was far from "angry", and was perhaps curt with the reporter, since he's from the NYT.

That was underwhelming...where's the zazz?

He's just as condescending and nasty as Bush.

@meerkat: Which is, to say, not at all?

GW is a lot of things, but I've never seen "condescending" or "nasty".

@TheHonJudgeSmails: John McCain is from the NYT? No wonder he's so well-spoken.

@trojanhorse: Crafty bugger.

@meerkat: but smarter and articulate.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Haha! No shit, Sherlock. (sorry, i hate that saying, but it was appropriate here)

oh man, i feel that reporter's awkward pain radiating through my monitor. it's bad enough when a town councilor makes you feel like a douche for doing your job, but a presidential candidate....ouuuch. (it smarts even worse when it's totally unjustified, as it was here. think he was just giving her shit because she's from the times?)

@karion: Sorry, but that reporter was so unprofessional with the last angry question. Why on earth should McCain even speak with the New York Times after they published a Ken Starr worthy story to sell some of their papers, with no evidence rather than circumstantial hearsay. The "Grey Lady's" prominence is sinking faster than the Titanic, and they had to resort to a story you would expect to see in the NY Post. If a conservative publication had written a similar story about Clinton, the media would have a fit. I am so sick of partisanship in newspapers, magazines, and cable new channels. How can you present a slanted story, and call it "news." The line between and editorial and objective writing is no longer blurred, it has disappeared.

I'm not a McCain person, but he doesn't seem that mad, and that whore was annoying.

@bjonston: And clean. Very clean.

@TheHonJudgeSmails:
Hahahahaha!

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Oh, I bet GWB can be condescending. I've seen it in some interviews. Although that might just be his usual "Heh-heh" cockiness.

they don't call him THE WHITE TORNADO fer nuthin'

I hadn't heard he'd had that conversation with Kerry. I haz the fears, now.

@notthatpopular: About Obama, probably, but Clinton? She gets NO media love.

I agree with what you said about the line between editorials and actual news blurring though. It's really annoying and kind of scary. Where are we supposed to get, even just putatively, unbiased news.

@PimpMyCouch:
I may be wrong, but I really think the Judge was kidding. Right, Judge???

Baby just needs a Cindy McCain prostate massage and he will be all better

I yearn for the days of moving through the tunnels of the Senate and could hear his beastly roar of "YOU'RE WRONG. HOW DARE YOU. YOU'RE WRONG!" as he throttled women.

@kokotaylor: Ha!

@kokotaylor: I'll take one of those.

@notthatpopular: Yes. I don't know how candidates put up with this, day in and day out. The object is to provoke, not elicit information. And the "Why are you so angry?" sounded like a four-year old's question.

And so begins the "McCainiac-too crazy to be President" attack campaign of the vast left-wing conspiracy...

Bumiller has a long history of being a tard, but the Kerry question is basically valid.

But could McCain explain to me again what private and public mean, because, geesh, it has all been so confusing.

McCain and Bumiller have a history:
[www.nytimes.com]

@CharlieSays: The seeds were planted long ago, and only last month the right-wing Repo Senator Thad Cochran stated publicly that the prospect of McCain, with his out-of-control temper, in the WH was scary.

Just wish the video hadn't ended there. McCain's hair-trigger temper is notorious.

"Why are you so angry?" is a fairly legitimate question in a race with high stakes like this. If he were a Democrat, he'd be portrayed as an evasive, snappish crazy person with this clip.

@notthatpopular:
Why do you & the rest of the Republicans continue with the story that McCain was slimed by the Times?

In fact, the Times gave him a gift!
If the story had come out two months ago, his campaign would have folded up & gone home.
If the story were to come out in six months, McCain, as the GOP candidate would be toast!
By doing the story just after McCain had all but wrapped it up, the Times ensured that it would be forgotten by the general election in November.

A beautifully wrapped gift for a crazy old man that wants a 100 year war in Iraq!

Well, if that's an example of McCain's temper, I think al Qaeda has got nothing to worry about from him. I've seen my grandmother angrier when the pie crust comes out soggy.

Shit changes. Barack and Hillary are at each other's throat now, but will be swapping spit once the Demo convention comes.

I don't think I've seen John McCain that angry since his collection of rare two dollar bills became worthless with the passing of the Silver Standard.

Oh, come on. First of all, McCain wasn't all that angry. He was just goading Bumiller, because she was dragging up some history he'd rather not have dragged up. And there's no downside having his base watch him slap around a NYT reporter. He knows it and used it to his advantage.

But beyond that, the beauty of what he did was to demonstrate that he's not going to be the media's bitch. Just like he did with the aggressive response to the story about the lobbyist. It's been, what, a week, and how many of you can even recall what her name was? If that isn't proof he knows how to drive the message, I don't know what it.

By the way, do you want to see what happens when you lose the upper hand in front of the media?

+ Watch video

@Greasy Thumb Guzik: It WAS a beautifully wrapped present, at just the right time, too! Limbaugh, etc., needed an excuse to come around to him after tearing him down for months. And there it was, with a pretty bow on it. It couldn't have been a bigger gift.

But it still only worked because Team McCain responded to it so well. Neither of the other campaigns have demonstrated the ability to manage the press as well.

@amander @ thingsiask.com: here here

@disslexic: Hey, I know someone who's gonna be on that!