GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul furrowed his eyebrows and grew agitated before taking off his mic and walking away from CNN interview about his old newsletters.
As Paul has gained traction in recent polls, the media has turned up the heat, alleging that he made money and won fame with a sometimes racist series of publications.
Paul claims he did not read most of the newsletters and their controversial content, written during the 1980s and 1990s, despite them being published under his name.
He has taken responsibility for being a bad publisher, but disavowed the views, as he explained to CNN's Gloria Borger, who grilled him on the topic yesterday ...
"Why don't you go back and look at what I said yesterday on CNN and what I’ve said for 20 something years. 22 years ago?" the 76-year-old Paul said at the outset.
"I didn't write them, I disavow them, that's it."
Borger pressed on for a few seconds before urging Paul to react to what people are saying about the allegations. "These things are pretty incendiary," Borger said.
"Because of people like you," Paul snapped back.
Later, when talking with Borger about the interview incident on air, Situation Room host Wolf Blizter suggested that Paul "got tired of talking about" the allegations.
He could have probably handled it a lot better, although he has answered the same question the same way dozens of times now, including last week on Hannity.
What do you think? Is Paul's explanation satisfactory? Will the fiery newsletters from long ago continue to dog him, or will they become background noise?
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