National Post

Ron Paul blows a gasket over questions on race statements, storms out of CNN show
When you’re running for president — or even just for your party’s presidential nomination — it’s generally not  good idea to storm out of interviews on a national cable channel because you don’t like the question.

So maybe it was a mistake for Ron Paul to take umbrage with the badgering he was getting on CNN about racist newsletters that were published under his name 20 years ago. Under cross-examination by CNN’s Gloria Borger, Paul got increasingly upset at the questioning and finally unclipped his microphone and left. Bad idea, because the storm-out is sure to get more attention than the original interview would have. And that in turn will attract more attention to the newsletters, which Paul has been trying to explain away for a decade or more.