I strongly recommend that everyone watch Donald Rumsfeld’s interview from last night on the Daily Show. I had the unique privilege of watching this play out live on the shared feed from the Daily Show to the Colbert Report control room and I think it’s an important interview for anyone with misgivings about the original circumstances of us going into Iraq (i.e. everyone hopefully).
It goes on for a good 20 minutes and it is worth watching in full.
As I watched, it felt like this would be Jon Stewart’s “Frost/Nixon” moment. A few times he had Rummy backed into a corner but the man is so slippery and slick that he was always able to weasel his way out. I think it’s because it’s very difficult to get someone who doesn’t believe that they’re lying or wrong to admit to lying or incriminate themselves.
Even still, it is well worth a watch and make sure you watch ‘til the end when Rumsfeld gets up and leaves faster than I’ve ever seen anyone leave a Daily Show interview.
Well done Mr. Stewart, you almost had him.
