When Mike met Mahmoud
By Jeff Jacoby
"Neville Chamberlain flew to Munich to see Adolf Hitler, Walter Winchell observed in 1938, 'because you can't lick a man's boots over the phone.' Why did Mike Wallace fly to Tehran?
Wallace's bio at the CBS website lauds his 'no-holds-barred interviewing technique,' but there was little evidence of that on Sunday, when '60 Minutes' aired his interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the virulent Iranian theocracy that is the world's most active sponsor of jihadist terror.
Time and again Wallace let Ahmadinejad brush him off with inanities and lies he would have pounced on had they been uttered by a business executive or an American politician." Read on.
"Neville Chamberlain flew to Munich to see Adolf Hitler, Walter Winchell observed in 1938, 'because you can't lick a man's boots over the phone.' Why did Mike Wallace fly to Tehran?
Wallace's bio at the CBS website lauds his 'no-holds-barred interviewing technique,' but there was little evidence of that on Sunday, when '60 Minutes' aired his interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the virulent Iranian theocracy that is the world's most active sponsor of jihadist terror.
Time and again Wallace let Ahmadinejad brush him off with inanities and lies he would have pounced on had they been uttered by a business executive or an American politician." Read on.
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