McCain blows

McCain Flashes Temper at Reporter

By LIBBY QUAID – 1 hour ago

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain, showing a flash of the temper he is known for, repeatedly cut off a reporter Friday when asked whether he had spoken to Democratic Sen. John Kerry about being his vice president in 2004. "Everybody knows that I had a private conversation. Everybody knows that, that I had a conversation," McCain told the reporter. "And you know it, too. No. You know it, too. No. You do know. You do know."

The reporter, Elisabeth Bumiller of The New York Times, was following up on a question McCain had answered at a campaign event Friday morning in Atlanta. Asked if he might consider Kerry as a running mate, since Kerry asked him in 2004, McCain said no.

Afterward, on a campaign flight, Bumiller said she looked in the Times' archives and that McCain had denied talking with Kerry in a May 2004 story. [story]

I saw the video and I didn't think it was that big of a deal. Of course, you have to consider that Ms. Bumiller, who checked the Times' archives also works for the Times. You know, the Times that published unsubstantiated, anonymous sources accusing McCain of having an affair.

Yeah, I would have gotten upset, too. Well, actually I would have kicked the Times' reporter(s) off my campaign airplane after the previous article. I think he was pretty kind to put up with the Times' dirty tricks, back stabbing and untruthfulness.

If the Times was a really responsible in their reporting they would have just a few ethics and apologize to McCain for the the story they printed.