Was that really John Dickerson interviewing Sen. Tom Cotton on Face the Nation today, or was it a lifelike droid programmed by Dem Sen. Mazie 'Shut Up, Men' Hirono?

The question arises because the normally mild-mannered Dickerson was shockingly combative with Cotton. View the video, because the transcript alone doesn't do justice to just how sarcastic and confrontational Dickerson was.

Dickerson twice talked of facts being "wrestled to the ground." You got the sense that, given the chance, the thing that Cotton would have wrestled to the ground was . . . Dickerson. Check out the very end of the interview. After Dickerson gives the obligatory "thank you," Cotton counters with a curt nod and a stare into the camera as if to say, "can you believe this ----?"

Note: my favorite line was when Dickerson asked a vague and ambiguous question as to whether it would be relevant if Kavanaugh said something untruthful regarding an unrelated matter, and Cotton gave the deadpan reply: "what are you talking about, John?"