Too good to pass up
Over at Eschaton, there's a discussion about Tim Russert's Sunday interview with Dick Cheney, where Russert out-Kinged Larry King when it comes to lobbing softballs. In the comments section, Seraphiel of Virtopia poses 11 excellent questions that Russert would never think to ask, unless he became a journalist or something similar to that:
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Defib Dick has no hesitation about lying, flagrantly, to the American people. And that idiot eunuch Russert utterly lacks the journalistic fortitude to ask the questions that need to be asked:
1. Are you still being paid by Halliburton in a form of "deferred compensation?"
2. Was Halliburton awarded a lucrative contract with heavy involvement in rebuilding Iraq after the war?
3. Has Halliburton, through its subsidiaries, sought to build a monopoly on the (already fairly small) oil-well firefighting industry?
4. If you don't know anything about what Halliburton was doing while you were in charge of the company, what were you doing there that deserves the compensation you got, and continue to receive?
5. If you can't keep track of what your own company was doing, what makes you think you have any business trying to run this one, or Iraq, for that matter?
6. Based on documents posted on the "Project for a New American Century" website, haven't you, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Zalmay Khalilzad, and others been planning this war against Iraq for more than 5 years, regardless of Saddam Hussein's presence in the country?
7. Isn't Hamid Karzai, the current President of Afghanistan, a former employee of Unocal?
8. Isn't Zalmay Khalilzad, White House envoy to the region, a former employee of Unocal?
9. Now that the United States has installed a government in Afghanistan, isn't the pipeline deal sought so desperately by Unocal, Enron, and other US energy companies going ahead?
10. Why is your face so red?
11. Would you like us to drive you to the hospital?
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Interesting contrast to the type of comments you find over at Right-Thinking, which is a lot like Free Republic, but with a touch less hooting and a lot more feces throwing...