"You Don’t Favor Attacking Japan Today, But In Your Last Book You Say That You Favored It In 1942. Why Are You Such A Flip-flopper?"
By Appropriately enough, on the eve of what might have been the most asinine debate moderation since the immortal horse-race wankery of Ted Koppel, Ygelsias perfectly captures the vacuous, pointless, information-destroying interviewing style of Tim Russert:
Russert apparently meant this as a question. For some reason, we were supposed to be astonished that Richardson’s view of what would be good policy in the spring of 2007 wasn’t the same as his view of what would have been good policy in the winter of 2005. One imagines FDR getting a question about how he could favor the Normandy landings when he’d refused entreaties for operations in France just eighteen months earlier. “Now, I want to compare this invasion of France to what you said in your fireside chat in late 1942.
It’s not about the candidate; it’s about Tim. And don’t forget to buy his latest crappy book about his old man!