McCain Loses Cool With NYT Reporter

[babsbunny]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/07/mccain-loses-cool-with-ny_n_90428.html

AP | Libby Quaid | March 7, 2008 01:11 PM


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NEW ORLEANS -- 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.

McCain interrupted, saying that everyone knew he had a private conversation, and he kept interrupting as she tried to follow up. McCain clearly was irate.

[BeyondGeography]

1. So he finds reporters annoying...the NYT no less

Doubt it hurts him.

[Cant trust em]

2. McCain has always had a reputaton for a temper

let's hope he slips up more frequently between now and November. Moreover we can pounce on this when it's necessary. How can we let a man in the situation room who can't contain his rage. He'll be calling out nuclear launch codes left and right.

[karynnj]

3. Sweet - all the stories he had fun pushing in 2004 come back t annoy him

Every story on this from that period was from the McCain camp. More recently when someone asked Kerry, apparently the point where it was even discussed was in the period when people wanted McCain, like Jeffords, to leave the Republicans. Even then the conclusion on Kerry's part was McCain would have to become a Democrat - and they were too far apart.

McCain has many stories that all contradict, this was the only thing ever said by Senator Kerry. (Biden was a big fan of the idea and in 2006 or 2007 on Imus even mentioned Biden/McCain as interesting.)

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. Yeah, is the the man you want negotiating with ANYONE? nt