Dennis Prager's column in WorldNetDaily today hits CBS for Mike Wallace's fluff interview with Iran's nutcase-in-chief, President Ahmadinejad.
A little over three years ago, CBS sent Dan Rather to Baghdad to ask meaningless questions to, and provide a propaganda vehicle for, Saddam Hussein. Sunday night, Communication for Barbarians Service broadcast Mike Wallace's equally meaningless interview with the Islamic Republic of Iran's fanatical leader.
Interviews with evil leaders are meaningless at best and destructive at worst. Few reporters will ask real questions or challenge the propaganda responses of these leaders. These interviews merely offer them invaluable "humanizing" time and ask questions that reconfirm the low state of television news.
Prager offers the kind of questions that should have been asked of the evil dictator of Iran, each one ending the same way. Here are just a couple:
In countries with a free press and where history is understood as consisting of verifiable facts, anyone who denies the Holocaust, the systematic murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazis, is regarded as either an anti-Semite or a kook or both. You have repeatedly denied the Holocaust. Why should the world not regard you as either a kook or an anti-Semite? And do you understand why most free societies wish to prevent you from acquiring nuclear weapons?
Why do you believe that millions of Iranians chant "death to America" and "death to Israel" but no Americans or Israelis chant "death to Iran"? Are people more bored in an Islamic republic than in a free society? Does your brand of Islam promote preoccupation with death rather than life? Or is there simply a lot more hatred in your country than in free societies? And do you understand why all this hatred helps explain why societies in which people do not chant death wishes would like to prevent your society from acquiring nuclear weapons?
Dennis Prager is a man who understands the difference between good and evil and is able to articulate that difference clearly. This understanding seems to be beyond the grasp of the far-Left, dictator-hugging MSM and Hollywood types, who see America as the true evil and Bush as its terrorist dictator.
Sunday night, Mike Wallace erased any trace of lingering doubt over where he--and CBS--stands in the battle before us.
1 comment:
I loved this post when I read it yesterday, and love it even more today.
I wonder if Wallace was afraid to ask pointed questions, or certain questions were out of bounds by agreement, or if it was simply politically expedient to kiss Ahmadinejad's Persian butt.
Maybe all three.
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