Or perhaps he's just counting to 10 after another moronic alphabet media question. As if he's really going to say, "Yeah, sure, I was gonna shoot it on up to red and put a Santa hat on top just for the season! Next question."
I thought about that too. The look in his eyes as he paused, darting about rapidly, made me feel uneasy. And he ended the news conference, somewhat abruptly, with that question. His eyes were fairly steady during the rest of the news conference.