in the reasonably aggressive Irish TV interview:

1. Stick to the talking points.

2. Interrupt to prevent follow-on questions.

3. Run out the clock with repeated irrelevancies.

To me, he didn't appear any more "dumbfounded" than usual.

that fount of integrity GG once more proudly proclaiming his incorruptible nature -- proclaiming it here for the sake of a quote that, dumb as it was, wasn't particularly interesting and certainly should not have caused Power to resign (and I say that as a Hillary supporter).

When does this infatuation with GG's insufferable self-righteousness stop? Does it bother anyone that he sees no distinction between interviews and email? Why would anyone in their right mind communicate anything with this man?

As I see it, an additional advantage to interviews like the Irish woman had with Bush is that they keep him grounded in the real world. So, the content itself is important--that is, whatever she can "get" out of him on that single occasion for the good of public knowledge--but another is that he can hardly remain in his protected bubble or echo chamber if he is consistently exposed to reporters like this who remind him what the real world thinks and sees and is. Ultimately, I wonder if better policy would result.

Watching the interview link posted at the bottom of this article where Bush is interviewed by an Irish reporter was painful in the extreme.

His repeated claims that he should be allowed to finish his answers were typical and lame. Half the time he claims it, the interviewer is attempting to clarify his pathetic attempts to spin off her question to his perverse take and misrepresentations.

It reminds me of trying to wrestle with a pig, everyone gets muddy but only the pig enjoys it.

His claim that Americans are the most generous people in the world isn't true. Per capita were WAY down the list on giving.

I could go on a lot but I just don't think I can stomach the effort right now.

Perhaps one of the most important results of this long, long primary campaign will be the revelation of just how far "journalists" have fallen. Although I don't know how "prissy" Carlson could ever be classified as a "journalist."

Even those fiesty boys of Watergate fame, Woodward and Bernstein, now write light weight books and let the powerful off the hook. Especially Woodward whose books on the Bush administration are almost laughable, but they do prove the comments by Carlson about accessability. How did he get inside the super secretive Bush administration without a prior promise to go easy? Bernstein's book about the Clintons is just a lot of supposition and soap opera gossip. When journalists are elevated to the celebrity status, they seem to lose whatever got them there.

It would seem that the only way to hold the US journalists accountable is through the bloggers. Let's hope they are also held accountable for reporting substantive information rather than cleavage, wrinkles and cackles.

I disagree that Coleman's interview was impressive. It was lame. True, it was lame in a different way than Britt Hume's interviews are lame. But it was lame nevertheless.

She never laid a glove on him. Her questions sounded tough but were actually softballs that Bush was able to hit out of the park.

Bush handed her a golden opportunity at the beginning of the interview when he told two explicit lies and one implicit lie. He talked about the UN Resolution that required Iraq to disclose and disarm. Bush said that Iraq did not disclose and disarm so he decided to invade.

The implicit lie is that this resolution authorized anyone to invade Iraq. It did not.

The explicit lies were that Iraq did not disarm (they had disarmed years ago) and disclose (they fully cooperated with UNMOVIC and handed over more than 12,000 pages of documents).

This was a golden opportunity. Coleman should have honed in on these oft-repeated fabrications. But no. The moment passed. She did not call him on this and instead hassled him with vague questions that allowed vague answers.

True, she rattled him, but so did Matt Lauer in 2006. In fact, Lauer did an even better job pissing him off. Lauer was even more aggressive.

But no one seems to want to aggressively question Bush on his various lies around the theme that Iraq did not let the weapons insprectors into Iraq, and so on.

He is allowed to float away on a cloud of bullshit.

A friend sent me a Clinton/Obama joke today and I wrote back that the media was to blame for the way the Clinton's are portrayed. Right after that I read this article so it gave me something concrete to point to with lots of links. I sent it to her and if she takes the time to read it maybe she will get her eyes opened a little bit.

It's a bit of a giggle when people feel the need to tell the forum who they are supporting and then go on to show their technicoloured dream-coat. What's all this stuff along the lines "I'm a centenarian who's on the look-out for a toy-boy and I was going to vote for X (honestly, truly, fervently) but now after hearing/reading this/that I must tell you all that I really fancy Y instead, knowing that everybody will be impressed".

Samantha Power was given a lot of publicity not because she was promoting her book on the diplomat, De Mello, but because she was represented as a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama. I saw her interviewed twice, once on BBC Newsnight by the sainted Jeremy and then, more briefly, by Brian Dobson on Irish (RTE) news. Obviously she was doing the rounds of the media circuit and the interviewers wanted to know about Obama's policies. She dropped clangers all around the place, not only with the print media but also on television. Her "monster" name-calling showed a total lack of sophistication, especially because of all the talk about her brilliance etc. etc. and she didn't actually accuse Hillary Clinton of being one of the "monsters" responsible for the genocide in Rwanda, involving the Hutu and the Tutsi who did really monstrous things to each other. What really caused the plug to be pulled on her, leading to her resignation, was the fact that she went on tv and admitted that any promises Senator Obama is making about the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq are merely hypothetical and will be reliant on circmstances as they develop. "Perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub".