Does this look to you like Obama's threatening Jan Brewer (R-AZ)?

Of course not. But judging from Brewer's breathless account and headlines from the usual bevy of right-wing blogs, a 'threatening' Obama "intensely" reproached the Governor for comments about the "thin-skinned" president in her book. After the exchange, Brewer immediately made her rounds of the media, regaling all within earshot that the president precipitated a contentious fight on the tarmac. Tellingly, Brewer's book has shot up the charts since her encounter with Obama.

He was somewhat thin-skinned and a little tense to say the least. I was trying to be very calm," Brewer told radio host Mike Broomhead on KFYI radio, according to BuzzFeed.

Problem is, a couple of the mayors standing alongside the two discount Brewer's account, including directly refuting her claim that Obama walked off while she was still screaming at berating talking to the president.

But Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, who was standing just feet away from the president and the governor on Wednesday during their now-infamous encounter, told TPM that Obama seemed calm the whole time. 

“He wasn’t tense at all,” Stanton said on Friday. “The guy’s a pro.” 

Though Stanton declined to discuss exactly what the governor and president said to each other, he said Obama’s classic coolness was evident. 

“He doesn’t get animated, but he looks you in the eye and tells you what he thinks,” Stanton said. “And I think that’s honestly what he did is he looked the governor in the eye and spoke and told her what he was really feeling.”

And

The other politician on hand to greet the president, Republican Mayor Scott Smith of Mesa, Ariz., told TPM on Thursday that the discussion between the president and governor was an “awkward moment” but little more than that. Obama himself dismissed the incident in an interview with ABC News, calling it “a classic example of things getting blown out of proportion.”

If one was even a little skeptical, they might opine that Brewer's obvious fit and disingenuous explanation was merely a publicity stunt to prove her reputation of being independent and tough. Oh and yeah, to sell more copies of her book.