Stephen Colbert grills Wikileaks editor Julian Assange over the release of videos showing US military killing civilians in Iraq. This is the full, unedited interview and includes swearing.
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I’ve had to skim this because of time constraints at the moment (let’s see if I alter my opinion when I see it in full….), but one thing is clear; Assange handled himself very well, staying calm during this whole attempt at ridicule.
How I wish I was like that!!!
That asshole would be missing his jugular within the first five minutes if he had interviewed me like that!
ELAN, the day when people demand that Stephen Colbert doesn’t take the piss out of his interviewees will be a very sad one indeed.
If you haven’t seen it already, do a search for his 2006 press club dinner speech to GWB.
One of the bravest pieces of comedy since the fool took on King Lear.
Assange knew exactly who he was talking too and handled it beautifully.
Colbert made me feel nauseous.
Typical “liberal” – will have a go at the President and declare war on the conservatariat, but as soon as something that poses a real challenge to the system comes along he’s quiet as a mouse.
Asking him which service he’d fought with! Disgusting. Carrying on about distortion when this was about as undistorted as it gets, with full access to the unedited footage. How many news organisations do that?
Makes me sick. What a gutless f*ckwit.
And yeah, Assange handled it very well – calm, clear answers. Makes it easier when you have integrity and no need to constantly disassemble though, I suppose.
I think Colbert exposed him for manipulating the evidence to give the impression of deliberate killing of civilians. Got off lightly in my opinion.
@ Mike
Maybe you should look at the original material.
If they weren’t deliberately targeted, it was gross, wanton, uncaring negligence. They were offering no aggression, no resistance, were posing no threat, were walking about quite openly and unguardedly. Not what you might expect from people engaged in a war, not what you’d expect from anyone who they had any reason to be a target and definitely not people in the fog of war.
The journalists may have had bodyguards to protect themselves from the general lawlessness of US-controlled Iraq. As do most western journalists (the few that bother to leave their fortified hotels) and all western workers. Should they be shot too?
And this from the country that constantly bangs on about the right of the citizenry to bear arms!
And as for manipulating the evidence, that is risible! If that had been any standard news report (perhaps using Simon Fuller Sh*t as cameraman) we’d have got 15 seconds of highly out-of-context material and NO link to the uncut version.