Yesterday John McCain stopped by the offices of the Des Moines Register for an unfriendly chat with the paper’s editorial board. Judging from this two-minute collection of excerpts, which has become a YouTube buzz clip this morning, the line of questioning–about McCain’s nasty and misleading ads, health care, and Sarah Palin–hardly amounted to third-degree interrogation, but McCain can be seen seething nonetheless. Maybe it was early and there was too much Ambien noise in the room.

More video of the Register’s McCain interview here.