Great, just great. Way to go, Republicans, this is OUR guy this time around.

Just brilliant. This guy is a total loan shark used-car salesman waiting to take over the Oval Office. No wonder most of our people want to vote for Obama.

Although, then there's Michelle Obama... maybe she & McCain ought to compare notes on how to respond to the press.

Is there video? This guy has a terrible temper - if this sets him off imagine when he starts getting really tough questions.

HA! This is just the first of many incidents we'll be hearing of over the coming months. Any one care to bet McBush will lose his cool in a debate?

I can't believe this is the best the Republican party can offer up as the nominee...would you really want this cranky old coot in the oval office with his finger on the button? He'd answer the red phone at 3AM, and it wouldn't be pretty. He's not just like this with reporters, I've heard through the grapevine that he has treated others with the same cranky attitude - flight attendants in particular.

We need Jeb Bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain will "swiftboat" himself, mark my words and the Real Democrats will win the election. And the war will continue. Our spending will stay out of control. We will lose more jobs overseas, and the inflation of prices will continue unabated. Think this election matters;It's all a lie.

McCain didn't lose his cool.

The media is trying to stereotype McCain.

Jake correct this garbage biased misleading headline.

I doubt this was entirely spontaneous. Yes he has a temper, but he is also trying to play to the right-wing base, and mouthing off to the NYT would be a good way of doing that, no?

I wonder if SNL will do a skit portraying the favoritism the press gives their fellow dems over repubs. Cuz I mean, come on, if Hillary wasn't getting fair treatment, repubs are facing an inquisition.

They can't even wait for the dems to have a nominee to start trashing McCain. I wonder if John complains a bit, if the press will start getting harsher on his opponent. NOT!

LOL He will get lots of coaching for debates. For all we know, he will get medicated by Karl Rove. But you can bet the RNC is going to do all it can to help him present a cool head image. Just before the TX vote, the campaign had announced he would be taking a break from the trail. He stated he would be taking that time to put plans and proposals together on the party's policies, unite the party, and begin forming his cabinet after choosing a running mate. I wonder why that has not happened yet? Looks like someone needs a nap. LOL (Just a joke... he i obviously stressed by the race.)

McCain didn't lose his cool.

You even admit in your piece that he didn't raise his voice.

If he didn't raise his voice how did he lose his cool.

So according to you if McCain has a disagreement that means he lost his cool.

This is not journalism. You are supposed to be unbiased. How can you call yourself a reporter.

If you want to lie about McCain then don't call yourself a reporter.

Am I the only person who remembers that NYT ran a completely BS story attempting to implicate JSM in a sexual affair by using the words 'innappropriate relationship' to characterize his receiving money from a lobbyist. If an organization treats a man with that level of disrespect I don't think they have reason to expect better in return.

he lied, he got caught in the lie and his response was to get terse with a reporter over it and refuse to anser the question. In effect saying, everyone knows he lied and that the meeting he said did not take place did and that we are just to continue ignoring that. 8 years of this crap is enough. Bush insist that we just ignore his WMD lies, then his terror lies and then his sowing democracy lies about Iraq. 4000 lives later we are no where, and the organization that was being 9/11 is stronger and bolder than ever. Virtually unchallenged in Afghanistan and OUR President says that the man ultimately behind 9/11 Osama Bin Laden, no longer matters. McCain supports this position. Enough, is enough.

Hey Winston, what about Obama bomb bomb Pakistan.

McCain's was a joke not a policy position like Obama.

McCain knows more about war and peace than Hillary and Obama ever could.

McCain wants to withdraw our troops from Iraq responsibly.

Clinton is unqualified to be president.

She has no knowledge of foreign policy.

She flip flops on Iraq constantly.

Clinton lies saying she wasn't for the war when their is a video of her two weeks before the war saying she is for the invasion.

Clinton has Gloria Steinham out bashing McCain for his service.

And this is who you wants as CIC.

It is not necessary to raise a voice to be perceived as losing one's cool. Words, mannerisms, body language, facial expressions, tone, etc. all play a factor in perceptions. Be honest about that.

I think a video with audio is needed to really know how people will perceive him.

I don't think you want video of McCain losing his cool on the internet. It would set off too many filters. LOL. But seriously, I want to see HRC losing it. Don't tell me that woman doesn't get angry when she doesn't get her way. I wanna see the footage of her after she found out that BHO won New Hampshire.

Louis McCain is qualifed to be CIC.

Hillary Clinton isn't qualified to even stand on the same stage as our brave men and women.

She used our troops for political gain.

She was for the war for years when it was popular then switches for political gain lying about how she wasn't for it when she is on tape being for it.

Hillary voted against an amendment that would have stopped military action in Iraq.

Clinton is a flip flopper.

Even now she is lying about Iraq. Saying publicly she will remove troops right away while her advisers are saying in the background that is just for political gain.

Hillary NEVER wore the uniform.

She has no clue how to deal with foreign affairs.

Hillary thought Musharraf was running in the recent presidential election.

Hillary didn't pass her DC bar exam.

Hillary is stealing Bubba's resume.

Hillary didn't make it on her own. Bubba got her the job at the law firm and got her everything.

Hillary talks about sticking up for children but in 1972 accused a 13 year old rape victim of liking older women.

The detective in that case says Hillary had no evidence to make that accusation.

Hillary Clinton is a fraud.

She is a joke. She isn't qualified to be CIC.

Hillary said Nafta was great for American and New York.

Hillary is on tape praising Nafta.

Now she lies saying she was against it.

Then she calls Canadian embassy saying take it was a grain of salt yet bashes Obama for the same thing.

Hillary Clinton is a serial liar.

IF you poke something with a stick long enough it will let you know you had better stop. If you were asked the same question 12 times and asked to define its properties ..what would you consider it? The reporter is shamefully
pounding a useless question. McCain answered the question.."No..No" end of conversation..next question. I wouldn't want a traitor like John Kerry on my team...He will turn his back on you and not support you all at the same time.

John: You hit the nail on the head!
This reporter was trying to harass him into lossing his temper!
How many times does a person have to
Answer the Same Question?
This was a Setup and It Won't Work!
John McCain will be Our Next President!
Deal With It!

C'mon Folks, anyone is better than Obama

Obama has lied to the American people time after time, Flip flops on everything, and double talks and talks around direct questions, or even his platforms.

He wants to be president for his own personal goals and to make history.

Other wise he would of taken his Senator job seriously and voted, and tried to change things.

If it wasn't for his high price advisors
he wouldn't know much about what he talks about.

It is a shame, all the ones who dropped out of the race, could not keep up with the purse strings he is attached to.

You go McCain, your a Proud American, who has proven himself, worked hard for America and will continue to do so.

Do we really want this Grouchy Old Man as our next President?

If you don't raise your voice, turn purple, or your head starts spinning... then you didn't lose your cool.

It just looks like he got irritated.

NOW, had he come after the press corps with an ax or something, yeah, that's losing your cool.

I can't believe our honorable men and women in uniform having to take orders from this old hothead.

How many times can McSame shoot himself in the foot? Does he have feet?

Pretty soon that ol' McCain temper is going to be on full display, and if America chooses him to answer that 3:00 AM crisis call we might be apologizing for dropping a nuke where we shouldn't have.

The far-left wing lying NYTimes is poison in the bloodstream of this great nation. This den of rich liberal snob reporters are ALWAYS promoting their close pals in the Democrat Party........anyway they can. Americans should shun this dissgraceful political/newspaper......who's slogan should be "Every liberal lie that's fit to print.........or not". Really sad indeed.

Somebody wake me up in November. I'm so over it already.

DangYankee - I think you are mistaken on NH because she won NH but I dont know which loss you are referring to. LOL It is a tough campaign and anyone would be up and down with wins and losses. This instance was unrelated to the campaign because it referred to a past campaign where he had been caught in a lie of denial. Apparently the reporter struck a nerve.

Over the years and recently we have seen all of them angry on video. Clinton comes across to me as strong but not condescending. McCain comes across as strong but condescending.
Obama comes across as both weak and condescending. His inability to show executive decision making strength several times in the campaign supports that perception. But McCain is perceived as one that would make hotheaded rash decisions if he felt his hack was against the wall (as he has shown on several occasions in his career.)

I will give McCain credit for not always looking down his nose at Clinton and not always reaching out to touch her - which I think is totally disrespectful. Obama does this repeatedly. He also crosses boundaries in the way he addresses women he does not know, ie. a woman elder he does not know should not be referred to as sweetie in a flirtacious manner.

Obama shouldnt reach out to touch Clinton in the debates every time she has made a point that he cant argue effectively. This behavior comes across as a man dismissing what a woman says and is inappropriate. He doesnt try to do that with the male candidates and has no right to do that with her anymore than Bush had the right to be presumptuous and try to give Merkel a shoulder massage. (Merkel of Germany was offended and demanded an apology. She was right.)

Men need to understand that this type of behavior is not appropriate with all women. In fact, touching a person without their permission can be construed as assault in some areas.

Being deaf, (about 40% hearing), I have to read lips, read closed captioning, read body language, and am more attuned to inflection than the hearing community. This actually allows me to not be prejudiced by voices as so many of the prejudicial statements have been made about people (men and women) in positions of power relating to their voice.

However, McCain's reputation (earned by his actions) over the years is not just as a maverick... he is perceived as a hothead and rightfully so. This might be appropriate for certain jobs but as President, life-ending decisions have to be made and people have to feel confident he will not make a rash one as a hothead. He will have to work hard to convince voters that he has matured and mellowed into a cool headed decision maker and this type of instance can definitely hurt him.

We're so screwed if this guy becomes CIC. How is America supposed to be the leader of the free world with a doddering, bumbling fool with a "temper" like this in office? O-M-G.

John McCain is a ticking time bomb. Frankly, he scares me. I don't mind saying that after what all he's been through, I don't trust his judgment. Folks, I think we may be in trouble...

Sounds like McCain has taken a page from the Rudy Guiliani school of Media Relations. Any seasoned politician should know that when they are caught in an outright lie, smile, maintain there is no discrepency between the lie you told and the truth we know, and call for another question. Making a scene just gives the press a reason to do a story on the issue, which is what happened here, and the politician comes off as a hothead, which is also what happened here.

Actually McCain is the only candidate who knows about war and peace.

McCain knows how horrible war is he lived through it.

McCain would be the last person to drop a nuke.

McCain wants to lead a humble foreign policy. His advisers talk about it constantly.

McCain isn't the one who said we should invade pakistan.

McCain wants to withdraw from Iraq responsibly be handing it over to iraqis and coming home.

McCain knows how awful war is.

Hillary doesn't have a clue about war.

Senator Hillary Clinton appears to be the most intellgient USA Presidential Candidate for 2008. Senaor Barrack Obama and Senator John Mcclain don't know how to handle the questions of the press right now, so God help us, if either one of thesesocil idiots is elected. But this is not an endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton for our next USA President.

Rex McCain didn't lie.

I guess you love the NY Times who ran that garbage headline against McCain's family.

The media in this country is deplorable in their bias.

It is amazing to me that a member of the press would ask the same question over and over again. Apparently they are trying to make some kind of point about John McCain. Well, as an American, who is a Democrat, and who is working, and supporting, and voting FOR John McCain for President of the United States, I can tell you that is why he is such a strong candidate... he DOES NOT put party first.. he puts his country first.. something that people like Hillary and Obama know little or nothing about.

McCain put his country first when he wore the uniform for his country, and he has consistently put his country first when making decisions and sponsoring good, effective legislative ideas in the Congress. At least he can claim to be 'above" the politics of right and left.. and is for the politics of getting something done for the American people, for the good of the country. That's what we need, and that is why he has my vote.
Kirk
Wilmington, NC

Seems the NYT isn't having trouble making news. They just have trouble reporting it.

Someone as volatile and quick to anger like he has shown over and over is NOT humble, John. I'm not saying he shouldn't be pi**ed off. But we don't need a no-negotiating Prez at this time. We don't need another Prez that's going to alienate us from our only allies.

McCain needs to learn a lesson.

Stop having the press on the back of the bus and talking to them on the back of the plane all the time.

Be like obama and clinton who almost never interact with the press openly.

The press is out to get McCain to get a democrat elected.

They will over dramatize everything.

They will take your words out of context.

They will run garbage page 1 headlines that should be in the gossip section.

They will outright lie.

They will try and stereotype you in a negative way.

STAY AWAY FROM THEM THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS.

The NYT has a political agenda, they go out of thier way to damage any republican candidate. McCain would have been smarter to refuse all questions from anybody at the NYT until they show they can report things in an unbiased manor which of course will be never.

WOW ABC reporting on a a NYT's reporter's interview verbatum, have not see one of these yet with Clinton and Osama wonder why?

That's called "losing his cool?" That's IT?
Could you possibly look more desperate to discredit him? This is pathetic. Did you get your writing tips from the New York Times?

Good grief!

Why doesn't the news rag NYT's ask Obama about his wife's personal views on America and how she hates it and will only be proud of it when her fake liar of a husband wins?

So here's my question to McCain.

Were you lying then or are you lying now?

Keep pushin' those buttons media folks so we can all see the real John McSame. I knew he couldn't hold it in for long.

Oh so now its time to impune John McCains' character and accomplishments and experience?

Is there no limit to Barack Obama's unending, over-reaching ambition and arrogant ego? I know the reporter is not an Obama campaign employee, but ABC just loves playing victim stories about poor bereated Obiewan CannoBPresident. Anything that makes his opponents look bad shows up here in light speed.

Barack will stoop to any low in order to descimate his opponents,

Have to wonder how many people out ther would honestly want their grandfather at 72 years old to be the president of the United States. Or simply, would you turnover all of your assests to your grandpa and ask him to manage it for you because he must certainly be older and wise? Wow...I don't think so.

ANY of you that would even THINK about voting for a Republican after 8 years of the dumb stump we have now must be a screwdriver short of a full tool-box! GOOD GRIEF! Concede, surrender! It's TIME FOR A CHANGE! Our country is in the worst condition it has been in forever. If anyone listened to Coast-To-Coast the other nite, you would be scared for your lives if McBush gets in!

McCain didn't lose his cool in any way.

The media is out to slander McCain and stereotype him.

I find it unseemly that John McCain who had his arms hung from the ceiling in Hanoi is being smeared by liberal commie reporters who never sacrificed anything for their country.

You are a disgrace.

McCain didn't lose his temper.

If McCain disagress with a reporter you run front page headline McCain loses temper.

You reporters are outrageous in your lies.

You need to be called out and there needs to be protests against this unfairness.

Just because you are democrats gives you no right to outright lie and have the nerve to call yourselves reporters.

Hillary screams Shame on you Obama and screaming about large rallies.

But McCain disagress with a NY Times reporter and the media goes beserk.

Now that the general election is upon us is McCain allowed to breath without saying he lost his cool.

McCain in real life has actually showed great temperment when his family was smeared by the NY Times.

MCCAIN DIDN'T LOSE HIS COOL.

THE HEADLINE SHOULD BE:

MEDIA LIES ABOUT MCCAIN TO STEREOTYPE HIM IN A NEGATIVE WAY SO VOTERS REJECT MCCAIN IN NOVEMBER AND ELECT A DEMOCRAT.

Stories about John McCain treating people badly and being a nasty, mean-spirited guy with a bad temper are commonplace in Washington and can be found on the internet. Why should this be a surprise to anyone? He can't hide it for too long.

Who wants to invade Pakistan? Such out of context statements embarrass yourself. Vote for who ever you like, that's great, but flat out lie to prove your puzzling point? Bush's record speaks for itself, no Dem. campaign manager could make that stuff up! McCain is getting more "Bushy" every day, from moderate maverick to cloned conservative.

WHOA! Calm down John. Takes one to know one? You're a little defensive of him aren't you??? The fact that he hung in Hanoi is nothing to do with whether he will NOW make a good President. I am grateful for the job he DID. But that was then ~~ this is now. AND BESIDES...HE'S TOO DAMN* OLD!

McCain doesn't like to be caught lying so his best defense is anger and self righteous indignation. God help us all if this geezer gets into the White House. He really belongs in a home for old warlords...

McSame will be all right, just as soon as he's had his nap.

Hmmmm, another three anti-McCain stories in three weeks, all involving the New York Times.

They are a periodical struggling to remain relevant to an increasingly indifferent audience. Face it, NYT, American has largely caught on to your tricks. They are being so obvious in their effort to play gotcha with John McCain it is almost laughable. They couldn't make the affair allegations stick, then they try to posit that McCain cannot legally serve as president, and now they bait him trying to make him lose his temper.

This is not journalism, it is being a pawn of the Democratic Party. Useful idiots, as Stalin once famously said.

I don’t know why he kept talking to her. He answered the question several times. Some reporters ask the same question over and over trying to get a different answer. Lawyers take the same tactic as do some police officers. Once I answer a question once I refuse to answer it again other than to say "I already answered that question."

McCain is the biggest flip-flopper in Washington. Can we all bring our flip-flops to the GOP Convention again this year?

Let's all practice:
Flip
Flop
Flip
Flop

“I am a war criminal,” McCain said on “60 Minutes” in 1997. “I bombed innocent women and children.” Although it came too late to save the Vietnamese he’d killed 30 years earlier, it was a brave statement. Nevertheless, he smiles agreeably as he hears himself described as a “war hero” as he arrives at rallies in a bus marked “No Surrender.”

“A proven leader, and a man of integrity,” the New York Post called John McCain in its editorial endorsement. “A naval aviator shot down over North Vietnam and held as a POW, McCain knew that freedom was his for the taking. All he had to do was denounce his country. He refused–and, as a consequence, suffered years of unrelenting torture.”

“I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pirate,” McCain wrote in his confession. “I almost died and the Vietnamese people saved my life, thanks to the doctors.”

Tara she is weak she cries when her political career is on the line.

But she lies about her vote on Iraq.

She is on tape on March 5, 2003 being for the invasion in Iraq.

She was for the war in Iraq when it was for her political benefit.

She is weak.

McCain is the strong one who goes against his party.

McCain lead the investigation against Jack Abramoff but the media ignored that. Media never mentioned that when saying he was in bed with lobbyists because he has two 30 year old friends on his campaign staff.

I think that with most of the top Republicans being convicted or caught in ethics violations and criminal behavior over the last 8 years, McCain is the best that could be found.

Charles, the 'affair allegations' stuck and you KNOW it. You must think we are all a bunch of dumb bimbos! GET REAL!

Obama would do very well in a debate with McCain - a hothead v. a cool cat. Who would you want at the helm in a crisis? Give me the smart one, i.e., Barrack Obama.

Nelly for you to compare McCain to Bush is such juvenile gutter politics like the DNC practices.

McCain for stem cell research, bush against.

McCain against drilling in Anwr, Bush for it.

McCain for importing prescription drugs from Canada, Bush against it.

McCain against earmarks, Bush for them.

McCain served his country in war, bush didn't.

McCain is the complete opposite of bush on global warming and the enviornment.

I could go on and on.

For the dems to lie and compare someone like McCain to Bush is juvenile.

All you dems can do is lie.

Because the real record of McCain is integrity and honor so instead you try and smear him with your petty nasty attacks.

So WHAT if she's cried a few times John??? Women are made that way, ya know? Brett Favre has her beat all to he** by the way! What's your point? She's smarter than all of us put together and then some. She always looks nice and dresses nice. She has our best interest at heart. She is classy and THAT'S why you can't stand her.

McCain for closing Gitmo, Bush against.

They have vastly different records.

But that won't stop the dems from lying to the american public and saying McCain would be a third Bush term.

It gives me the creeps to see Howard Dean who was sking in Vermont during Vietnam lying about his bad back to smear McCain.

kerry asked McCain to run for vp and he said no. The liberal media is trying to spin this and manipulate the American public.

McCain has honor and integrity.

If America elects the party of Howard Dean and their childish juvenile attacks against McCain then that is a shameful day in american politics.

Howard Dean isn't fit to shine McCain's shoes.

Its the "in-fighting" that seems to be an issue/Senator mcCain is offering his leadership w/o the in-fighting..the supposed Change--the acting role of Change..Senator McCain is looking at the Whitehouse for his personal likes/dislikes regarding his patriotic intutiative and social understanding(NOT)the "toss&catch" games of democrat{hopefuls}..I think Senator McCain makes a good point in his dislikes and also has a good amount of push to have things done..the democrats keep playing the "toss&catch" word game about American being a failure because of the "secret" lives of some imagination they have created along the way..there has been evidence of America being undermined(because)of its Class System for populations..wealth or sectors usually seem adept at the Global stand(being)a pupose has its day(just like work being enjoyable)has its rewards..there is an obvious "hate the world" mentality that brews UP economic "stupidity"..and this campaign offers up Stupidity like a "charm."

Bush (at McCain endorsement):"Iraq/stay the course . . .Iraq/stay the course . . .Iraq/stay the course . . ."

McCain: "I have nothing to add"

How can there be any question about who NOT to vote for!

Oh, and BTW, John M., this country will never leave Iraq with honor because our going in was DISHONORABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE!

John, You're too hung up on Republicans vs Democrats. You would vote for BOZO the CLOWN if he were a Republican.

Hillary failed her DC bar exam.

She is where she is because of her husband.

She didn't make it on her own.

Hide the red phone!!

McCain didn't lose his cool. The reporter lost their cool trying to manipulate the truth rather than discover it. McCain was provoked in a disgraceful manner and maintained his composure. This is a leader who doesn't check in with the right or the left for his political views and that is why he's such an easy target and would make a great president.

When he said to spend the next 1000 years in Iraq, did he mean to turn that oil place as a new state of the US?

For all you "believers" who think that Obama or Clinton will withdraw from Iraq, go read Andrew Sullivan's blog. He makes the point that neither one is being honest about getting out of Iraq. Both will keep us in there infinitum. Wake up dems ... it ain't gonna happen.

Msirt you want McCain to diss Bush in the rose garden as a guest?

McCain's strategy for Iraq is to continue turning over areas to the Iraqis and withdrawl our troops in a reasonable manner.

McCain said it will be for the iraqis to deal with the insurgency in the coming years while our troops will come home.

McCain isn't like Bush. To compare them is utter stupidity.

McCain knows the horrors of war first hand.

He will bring our troops home with honor.

Lose his cool?
He didn't even raise his voice.
More lies from the press.

McCain never said there would be a war in Iraq for 1000 years.

He said he would only allow our troops to help train iraqis if it was a peaceful situation and americans weren't taking casualties.

Iraq still needs their air force trained.

He said he would leave a very small presence there at the embassy and to train the iraqi air force.

But dems lied and took his comments out of context.

That is how you get ahead in american politics today if you are the democrats. They have no limit to their lies to the american people about mccain.

What does bringing the troops home one way or the other have to do with his 'anger management' issue and the fact that he will only get us into further trouble. I don't know that the USA can 'afford' to support anymore wars. And I mean that literally. The +surplus we had when President Bill was in office is long gone and now a -deficit. Thanks to these piddly 'stimulation packages' that Bush throws out like bones. THAT'S the reason our country is full of foreclosures, etc like it is today! Hey someone has to pay for the millions a DAY for this war and we still haven't gotten BIN LADEN!

Technically, I don't think this conversation qualifies as a classic McCain temper outburst.

My understanding is the real thing involves boldly colorful language delivered forcefully and emphatically leaving the victim no doubt whatsoever McCain was displeased.

Lets face it neither party can supply the candidate we need to straighten things, reason in that Americans will never accept the hardship needed to fix our problems, we would have to live within our means.........that will never happen in this country!!!!!!!!!!!!
We want quick fixes and easy solutions, neither are options.

Tara if you knew McCain's record you would know that he wants to lead a humble foreign policy.

He has a great relationship with our allies in europe. He wants to close down Gitmo.

He has attended Nato conferences in Europe the last 20 years. He knows almost all the world leaders personally.

He wants to negotiate to settle issues.

THE MEDIA STEREOTYPE OF MCCAIN IS A LIE AND IT IS A DISERVICE TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.

Sure, that's why he voted AGAINST a bill banning waterboarding. He's such a nice guy...