Why watch 60'...

[Peter_Puget]

when you can get the crap direct?

[catbirdseat]

How is your Farsi?

 

I thought the 60 Minutes episode to which you refer was one of the best in a long time. It was excellent.

[JayB]

I didn't catch it all, but he pretty much seemed to be speaking past Mike Wallace and using the interview as a PR vehicle.

 

"Hey - nevermind that business about wiping Israel off of the map, the nuclear program, etc - this guy said that the number of Americans who lack health insurance makes him sad. He's okay in my book!"

 

Mike Wallace did the best he could, but when it was clear that he had no intention of actually answering any of the substantive questions directly, he should have thanked the guy for his time and ended the interview.

[catbirdseat]

Do you believe he actually thought his questions would be answered? He's no fool. Wallace wanted to have an interview that people would watch and they did.

[foraker]

I don't have TV but do you think he was going to be allowed to ask whatever he wanted to ask? I don't think so.

 

Anyway, why watch Faux News when you get the crap direct?

[catbirdseat]

Come on, it works like this. Wallace says, "I get to ask any question I want". The response is, "go right ahead, but you might not like the answers you get".

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Come on, it works like this. Wallace says, "I get to ask any question I want". The response is, "go right ahead, but you might not like the answers you get".

 

not necessarily true. often interviewers have to agree to avoid asking certain questions to get the interview.

[JayB]

Do you believe he actually thought his questions would be answered? He's no fool. Wallace wanted to have an interview that people would watch and they did.

 

I'm sure he wanted to watch, not so sure he intended to be effectively dismissed and have his interview used as a propaganda vehicle.

 

As I said, I didn't catch the whole program. Was the entire program dedicated to the Ahminedejad interview? Seems like it'd be worth giving the Iranian people an hour of time to discuss how they feel about the regime and Ahmedinejad. I'm sure he's got plenty of fans, but the manner in which they have been suppressing dissent - especially since the end of the Khatami era - suggests that the leadership feels that they have reason to be nervous about public opinion.

[olyclimber]

If you're thinking objectively, then the terrorists have already won.

[Peter_Puget]

Employment growth remained strongest in the Seattle metro area, where the unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent from 4.3 percent last month.

 

Just released.....

[olyclimber]

Dicks just hired 4 more fry cooks.

[cj001f]

Crap? 60' doesn't have trumped up terror alerts and bans on cream cheese and jelly donuts!

[Peter_Puget]

Hey CBS press the English button!

 

Check this out. Martin should sue:

 

My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi.

 

During the era that nobility was a prestige and living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village of Garmsar-approximately 90 kilometer east of Tehran.

 

Here's JayB's guilty pleasure: Silliness