Was Matt Drudge right about Michael Ware after all? Bob Owens found an AFP report that mentions a reporter “giggling” in the back of the room during John McCain’s press conference in Baghdad: US White House hopeful haggles in Baghdad market. (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.)

“I studied warfare. I’m a student of history. If you control the capital city of a nation you have a significant advantage,” countered McCain as one reporter giggled at the back.

As you can see from the video posted at Raw Story, Ware was seated in the back of the room.

From the same AFP article, another glimpse at the attitude of the press corps:

Yet journalists openly scoffed afterwards at what they considered a public awareness exercise secured on the streets by massive US security.