Here is Teabagger Joe Miller's entire press conference from yesterday.

As you can see the bitching and complaining that people are finding out things that Miller thought they could not find out starts the MINUTE he gets behind the podium. (Interesting side not: Miller and his wife spent a great deal of time standing off to the side and going over his notes before he finally walked over to the non-functioning microphone.)

As for the actual scrutiny, Miller seems to believe that he is special and will not have to be scrutinized like EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE.  He targets the Alaska Dispatch for their so-called "journalistic objective" because essentially THEY are the only local news organization that seems to be doing their jobs!  And it pisses Miller off that they do.

Did he just say "We are like you?"  Holy shades of Christine O'Donnell Batman!" Are these Teabaggers getting all of their talking points from the same source? (By the way did you notice he did NOT deny he was a witch? Or that he was endorsed by one?)

"You can ask me about background, you can ask me about personal issues, I am NOT going to answer them.  I'M NOT!"  (Just the kind of maturity that one would expect from a Senate candidate isn't it?)
Okay now the video abruptly ends right as Miller starts to talk about the letter that he received from the ten year old child (Dennis Zaki's camera ran out of storage space right at that moment.) What Miller did next was to hold up a child's drawing saying that he should "fight for Alaskans" and on the back the boy had taped a bunch of quarter from his allowance to donate to the campaign.  Miller used this letter to point out the type of support his campaign was receiving, which apparently comes from children who cannot vote and don't understand the issues.

Immediately after talking about his pre-adolescent support, Miller took his notes and, quite literally, fled from the room, refusing to take ANY questions from the numerous local journalists gathered there, and quickly herding his wife through the nearest door to the podium. The press started to grumble and some even began chuckling at the absurdity of the "press conference." (It should be noted that immediately prior to this debacle that Miller spent several minutes giving a rather expansive interview to Greta Van Susteren, before coming out and telling the local media that he had nothing more to say to them.  Here is that interview.)

This last piece of footage was taken by another videographer and shows Miller identifying self ordained "bedroom cop" Jim Demint as the Senator that he most admires. (Listen for the moans from the audience as he makes that announcement.)



So to sum this post up, what we learned about Miller yesterday is that he CLEARLY has something to hide, and doesn't want it discovered.  That he admires a Senator who would encourage the government to spy on people in their bedrooms so that they could be fired from their jobs. And that he is a coward who cannot stand up to media scrutiny. I think that is pretty much Joe Miller in a nutshell, don't you agree?