Verbal confrontation between GOP politician and Oregon reporter

That is pathetic. Arrogant pricks.

They don't have the video? Regardless, what a little shite

Callahan gets -5 points for not pissing on the floor.

I would have just walked out at the "That was strike 2 statement"

Good thing he didnt because it would have cost some of his current high ground

I enjoyed it. I admit a dislike for politicians though.

fricking blood-boiling

After viewing, all I can say is it he appeared to do the right thing by calling them out for being asshats.

Okay, instead of relying on the two minute video clip linked in the OP, I decided to watch the entire 1 hour and 41 minute meeting.

1.) For perspective, Dr. Monica Wehby (seated at the table) and State Rep. Jason Conger (the gentleman with glasses at the far right) are by far the two principal candidates. One or the other will be announced on May 20th as the winner of the Republican primary for the Senate seat in Oregon now held by Dem. Jeff Merkley.

2.) A relatively short time before the subject clip's events transpired, Tim Crawley (the guy at the end of the table/top of the screenshot, who, by the way arrived almost 6 minutes late to the interviews), NOT Mark Callahan, interrupted the process to complain about the lack of time being given to the three minor candidates. He did this after 23 consecutive minutes of only frontrunners Wehby and Conger speaking. Right after Crawley said he had "better things to do with my time" than be sitting there unable to say anything. that's when Callahan echoed his sentiments, a bit more strongly than Crawley had, and that was apparently "strike one". Then the candidate on the phone, Jo Rae Perkins, also protested she had not been given a chance to answer a previous question. So at that point, three of the five were already pissed off about being ignored. And that brings you up to the point where the clip in the OP begins.

3.) This editorial staff on this weekly "alternative" paper are clearly quite liberal and Callahan, through prior answers, had already established himself as the most far right of the five candidates and thus already on their shite list for the day. They grilled him in depth about his background far more than any of the other four.

4.) The paper endorsed Sen. Merkley in the Democratic primary and quite predictably endorsed Conger (the guy with glasses) after this interview., even though Dr. Wehby , via her answers, came across as easily the most moderate of the five, and thus the closest (relatively speaking, of course), to their liberal views. Despite that, they frequently challenged Wehby, while giving a free pass on every answer to the clearly more-conservative (and wishy-washy in his answers) Conger.

5.) So why did they end up endorsing a guy who was much further away from their own views than Dr. Wehby? The answer is easy. Polls show that Wehby, by virtue of being a moderate in Oregon, is a much bigger threat in November to Democrat Merkley than Conger would be. Wehby and Conger are running a relatively close 1-2 right now for the Republican nomination.

6. Though they did not endorse Conger until April 30th, one day after the final date for voters to switch party affiliation, they did post the full interview on their website on April 22nd, three days before the deadline. They endorsed Conger to help get out the more conservative vote against Wehby in her own party, and likely hoped a few Dems or Independents would register as Republicans for the primary to help defeat Wehby, thus keeping the strongest challenger to Merkley out of the November general election. Granted, as a weekly paper published on Wednesdays, they could conceivably had got the endorsement into the April 23rd edition. But even casting aside the speculation of hoping to change a few party registrations to allow more anti-Wehby votes for Conger, that does not at all weaken the case that they endorsed Conger solely to help eliminate the Republicans' best chance to unseat Merkley. From the opening paragraph of their own endorsement, "Of the two major candidates in this race, we probably agree on more issues with Dr. Monica Wehby, a pediatric neurosurgeon from Portland, than we do with state Rep. Jason Conger (R-Bend), a business lawyer. "

7. And now you know the rest of the story ....