What Do Ed Morrissey and Joe Wilson Have In Common?
By Mitch Berg
Mixing iced tea and “work”:
And for the record, they had the best tasting iced tea I have ever had, and not just because it hit 100 here in DC today.
Beyond that? No similarity. He’s actually doing something useful – in this case, Sunday’s interview with Said Jawad, Ambassador from Afghanistan:
In one sense, it breaks new ground because the Ambassador rarely gets an opportunity to speak in depth about the status of Afghanistan. Normally, all he gets are quick sound bites taken out of context, or a five-minute segment on a talking-head show in which he never gets the opportunity to speak about his country’s experience in any depth at all. In this format, we can allow Ambassador Jawad to speak at length — and if you listen to the show, you can see that the Ambassador has quite a story to tell.
The most groundbreaking aspect of the interview, I believe, is how the questions came to the Ambassador in the first place. Readers of this blog asked the questions in the comments section, and I selected the most germane and posed them to the Ambassador. His staff reviewed that thread and spoke about how impressed they were with the variety and depth of the questions. Afterwards, Ambassador Jawad said the one question I failed to ask that he wanted to answer was one about dirt-biking in Afghanistan’s mountains, which he thought would be a marvelous idea, so I know they paid close attention to your input.
You oughtta listen to his rather remarkable interview with the Ambassador.
