03/27/2008
Charlie Rose gets his ass handed to him by two rather pissed off Iraqi gentlemen
I'm just going to link to a great post by Glenn Greenwald that showcases Charlie Rose's "Fifth Anniversary Of The Iraqi Invasion" show.
There's fantastic embedded video of a segment of Rose's show where he attempts to manipulate two Iraqi guests - a journalist and an author - into some sort of "Oh, the US meant well and possibly made a few mistakes" type of dialogue.
Instead, you see two quite angry Iraqis saying things that are never part of the US media dialogue on Iraq. Rose tries - every time he opens his mouth - to shoehorn the narrative back into the approved major media mold (Ba'athists, Sunnis, Shia, etc.), and winds up after 10 minutes drawing the curtain as fast and gracefully as he can.
Greenwald's analysis and further links are exceptionally enlightening.
I'd suspect that at least one of the talent bookers on the Rose show has a call into a headhunter right now.