Rangel: MSNBC Ambush ‘Rude’

I wrote today about the toll that the constant barrage of bad news — and press questions — has been having on embattled House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY).

On MSNBC, there was even more evidence of the strain on the courtly Rangel, who wagged a rolled up paper at one of the networks producers after she ambushed him outside a meeting at the Ronald Reagan federal building off the Hill.

Betsy Cline began by asking Rangel if the ongoing ethics probes into his financial disclosures would hamper his performance on the committee — he said no.

Read more: (Glenn Thrush, “Rangel: MSNBC Ambush ‘Rude’,” Politico, 10/14/09)