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Tea Party Senate candidate in Oregon rants a Pulitzer prize winning journalist and is thrown out of panel discussion.

That has got to be one of the best pieces of footage ever! I love the "disrespectful, thin-skinned liberals" part.

Here is more courtesy of the New York Daily News:

An U.S. Senate candidate in Oregon sounded off against a reporter who scribbled “blah, blah, blah” in his notebook during a candidate panel discussion.

Mark Callahan, the Tea Party pick in the Republican primary, blasted reporter Nigel Jaquiss for his notetaking when the five GOP contenders in the race spoke to the Willamette Week newspaper seeking an endorsement.

Jaquiss and other editors interviewed the candidates, but Callahan was miffed he wasn’t getting equal time to answer questions as the frontrunners in the race, Monica Wehby and Jason Conger.

Then Callahan blew a fuse observing Jaquiss’ dismissive doodle when another candidate, Jo-Rae Perkins, delivered a lengthy answer via conference call.

So WAS the reporter being disrespectful?

Jaquiss, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, confirmed his notebook scribble to the Daily News.

“When Ms. Perkins then insisted on answering a question about the Affordable Care Act, I found her answer nonresponsive — she veered off into advocating for the dissolution of the Bureaus of Land Management and the Interior and the Forest Service — and repetitive, and I did write ‘blah, blah, blah.'’’

"Our endorsement process is for the benefit of our readers and web audience, rather than the candidates, and we make no promise of equal time. He did not like that answer," the journalist added about Callahan.

Remember these were his personal notes, not something that he was planning to publish in his newspaper. I imagine there are plenty of times when reporters scribble something like "blah, blah, blah" when they hear one of these cut and paste responses about doing away with government agencies by conservative candidates.

So where did Callahan get his righteous indignation from? The Boy Scouts, of course.

"I developed my moral and ethical foundation from my involvement in Boy Scouts when I was younger, and being an Eagle Scout myself," he told the Daily News.

Anyhow the Williamette Week ended up endorsing another Republican candidate.

I know, go figure right?

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