Letterman kept a light touch throughout the interview, though he did bring his own biases into the interview - Obama's birth certificate, anti-Iraq war, anti-Glen Beck, the claim of Republican fiscal mismanagement - and to each, Ms. Stout's answers were quite good, never backing down and explaining her positions with grace and clarity. Do enjoy this one. Also note the tepid applause at her introduction and the louder applause at the interviews conclusion.
As the Entertainment Weekly author notes
Except nobody else is doing interviews with people like this on TV. Why is it that the most interesting questioning of political issues is still being done not on network news shows, but rather by people like Letterman, Jon Stewart, and Craig Ferguson?
I think that answer is self-evident. The left wants the face of the Tea Party to be Bull Connor. Under no circumstances do they want the general public associating the Tea Party movement with a Pam Stout.
I "loved" Letterman's little bait-and-switch at the end of part 2, where he asks her about the birthers, and then subtly attempts to switch her reply over legitimate concern for Obama's obvious and extensive effort to deny access to much of his overall documentation as support for the birther notion itself, which she'd fairly clearly rejected.
ReplyDeleteHe also got obnoxious spouting Lefty Talking Points with regard to Iraq, which has nothing to do with the tea party movement in general.
According to Letterman (part 3) Iraq is now a "hotbed of terrorism" (it is suggested) solely thanks to our invasion, don't you know?
There were, of course, no terrorists there before. Well, except the ones training at Saddam's three known terrorist training camps (out of the six known worldwide as of 2002).
But no, it wasn't a hotbed until *we* invaded... Naw....
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