Bret Baier asked a question. Abdul El-Sayed didn't like it.

And in the space of roughly a minute, Michigan's Democrat nominee for the United States Senate told voters considerably more about himself than he probably intended.

Not with his answers.

With his refusal to let the questions get asked.

Baier was trying to ask El-Sayed about a 2012 letter he signed, addressed to Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's then-president and a Muslim Brotherhood figure.

El-Sayed cut him off before he finished the sentence.

"No, no, no, let me just stop there."

He meant it, too. Baier tried again. El-Sayed interrupted again, accusing the journalist of questioning his loyalty to America. Then came the line of the whole exchange.

The quiet arrogance of a man who's decided a journalist's job is only legitimate when the candidate approves the question in advance.

I've watched the clip more than once. Watch his eyes. Listen to the register of his voice climb half a step with every interruption. That's not composure. That's tempered rage — the particular indignation of someone who seems genuinely offended that anyone would dare press him on something he'd rather not discuss.

How dare you ask me this?

That's the impression he leaves. And impressions matter plenty when a man is asking voters........

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