Gary Johnson Melts Down With Reporter: If I’m Doing So Poorly, Why Are You Even Interviewing Me? [VIDEO]

The Guardian reports:



In his interview with the Guardian, Johnson complained that interviewers were now treating him like “a dummy” and bristled when he was pressed on his decline in the polls. “Why are you even interviewing me? I don’t get it. If I’m doing so poorly, is this to preside over a funeral here? It’s not a funeral! It’s a celebration!”

In another awkward exchange, Johnson defended his unorthodox economic policy, an extreme neoliberal proposal that includes the abolitions of income tax, corporation tax and the Internal Revenue Service.

When pressed on the details of his signature plan, which would replace existing tax infrastructure with a single consumption tax, Johnson said it had virtually no chance of being enacted in the US. “Congress would have to pass that in the first place,” he said. “The chances of them passing that are probably pretty nil.”