Mike Wallace and Ahmadinejad - The Whole Interview Was Better

I have been hearing all day how horrible the Mike Wallace / Ahmadinejad interview was, and how Wallace basically was a spokesman for the Iranian President. There have been reports all day on how Wallace is washed up and a leftist and an apologist for the Iranian government. I watched the 60 Minutes interview and felt that he was a bit soft on Ahmadinejad and that, yes, maybe Wallace was washed up.

Well, I was wrong. And so were all of the other ready to have Wallace throw in the towel. I just saw the entire interview on C-SPAN - the one that was not heavily edited by 60 Minutes. Wallace really did a damn good job, asking tough questions and challenging Ahmadinejad on the Holocaust, martyrism, and the United States. In the whole interview Ahmadinejad condones using children as suicide bombers, tries his best to duck questions about the Holocaust and Israels right to exist, and hints all over the place about an Islamic holy war. There are also all sorts of strange little places in the interview where both Wallace and Ahmadinejad are basically telling eachother "go fuck yourself" with body language and dodgy questions/answers.

There are people all over the web calling Mike Wallace a traitor, a leftist, and an Iranian apologist. Watch the whole interview. The 60 Minutes edit was terrible, and once you see the whole interview, Wallace's comments really make sense. Taken out of context, Wallace looks really, really bad.

Don't read the interview. You will miss the body language and the angry silences. Watch it.