Friday
(0)I don’t fault Dan Rather for going to Baghdad. If someone had interviewed Hitler in ‘39 for three hours, we'd prize the tapes as an invaluable historical document.
- James Lileks from his Bleat this morning
Amigo, you missed the best quote:
Sometimes history is farce the first time.
Posted by Natalie Solent at February 28, 2003 11:48 AM
No of course, we journalists are expected to be free to interview people.
Mind you, would an interview with Hitler be so prized if there were dozens of other surviving interviews in several languages from the same period?
Posted by mark at February 28, 2003 12:55 PM
Having been a journalist myself, I would love such an interview, so long as I could ask this question:
"Saddam, any chance you take Michael Moore from us as a human shield?"
Posted by Johnathan at February 28, 2003 02:37 PM
Did anybody catch Hussein's comments re women? He said "Jealously is for women, not men. Men should not be jealous of each other."
The media is probably purposefully not reporting it so as not to turn Susan Sarandon & Co. against the war.
Posted by Byron at February 28, 2003 02:42 PM
Now if we could get Bill O'Reilly to interview Saddam...
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at March 1, 2003 08:44 AM
