Fresh off her chat with Bashar Assad (and gushing over the "tall, quiet" dictator and his wife who "famously live in a modest home...with three children they drive to school themselves, protecting family dinners, even biking together through villages"), Diane Sawyer visited with Mahmoud I'm-in-a-jihad.
Aside from his warm greetings to the good American people, denial of involvement in Iraq, repudiation of all conflict and a Clintonesque evasive action ("I do not know what you mean by militia.", the Mahdi Hatter gave Diane a bit of a smackdown...
Mahdi: "Well, are you here to solve the problem of the American government in Iraq?"
Sawyer: "I'm hoping that you can help solve the problem in Iraq."
Mahdi: "Well, these are some points that must be discussed at the diplomatic level. You're just a journalist."
I wonder why ABC left Diane's "I'm hoping that you can help..." line out of their transcript? But hey, didn't she look stunning in her hijab? |
