GOP Senate Candidate Who Scolded ‘Blah Blah Blah’ Reporter Speaks Out

On Sunday morning, U.S. Senate candidate Mark Callahan made his first national television appearance following his dismissal from a Willamette Week meeting with Oregon GOP contenders. The IT consultant turned politician was booted from the alt-weekly’s meeting after he called out a reporter for scribbling “blah blah blah” on a notepad during another Republican’s speech.

Callahan showed up on Fox & Friends Sunday to talk about the ordeal with Tucker Carlson. And right off the bat, he declared that the Week reporters were “on a power trip, it was all about control to them. And I think they were just on a power trip. And they were basically trying to control the meeting.” Power trip, control; got it.

The candidate railed against the “gotcha questions” he received from the reporters, and cited his Eagle Scout background as a reason for calling out the reporter scribbling mocking notes during fellow candidate Jo Rae Perkins‘ allotted speaking time. “I just couldn’t let that stand,” he told Carlson. “They were acting dishonorably.”

Following the incident, the Willamette Week said Callahan broke their rules and was asked to leave because of it. The candidate, however, was unable to name what rules he broke, instead telling Fox he thinks he simply “stepped out of their control norm, or their totalitarian regime that they are controlling in the room there.”

Watch below, via Fox:

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