Condoleezza Rice smacks down Lawrence O'Donnell

I found Condy to be defensive and bitchy.

So was the interviewer.

I guess I don't really "get" why some people blame the interviewer if someone they agree with or like ends up looking bad because the interviewer pursues the holes in their story instead of pretending to be Oprah and just smiling and nodding sympathetically. For instance, to this day I do not understand why some blamed Katie Couric for having the "nerve" to ask Sarah Palin what magazines she read. I'd have asked her a lot tougher questions than that.

No offense but, let me get this straight. You are okay with the interviewer doing it but not the interviewee being able to do it back. They are at their mercy.

No, but I think it's pretty funny to watch someone who is being interviewed seemingly aghast that the interviewer has no intention of letting her deliver her rehearesed remarks without intrerruption or challenge.

Cripes!! You go on a program called "The Last Word" on a network that people say has a "Liberal Bias" and you don't expect to get talked over. She either did not know how he runs his interview, she didn't care or thought she could better him at his game. This was not journalism or an 'interview'. No winners here. No new information. Just wasted 12 minutes.

Okay, thanks for boiling it down. LOL

no sweat. Fishin lately?

I am going today. How about you? I have yet to catch my first trout of the season.

She should have been challenged on this:

We know, for example, that then National Security Adviser Rice was warned repeatedly in 2001 about an imminent al-Qaeda attack against the U.S., but, along with Cheney and Rumsfeld, she simply didn't believe that a cave dweller like Osama bin Laden could be that much of a threat. She was warned by the outgoing Clintonite Sandy Berger, in January 2001. She was warned by the White House counterterrorism scold Richard Clarke. And now, with Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, and subsequent Washington Post reports, we've been reminded that cia Director George Tenet warned Rice on July 10, 2001, that "the system was blinking red," meaning that there could be "multiple, simultaneous" al-Qaeda attacks on U.S. interests in the coming weeks or months. Rice has been a force for diplomatic sanity as Secretary of State in the second Bush term, but if there ever was a candidate for a Bush official to take the fall for the intelligence failure of 9/11 —and, of course, none did —it was she.

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klei ... 71,00.html