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Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s candid Rolling Stone interview prompted the White House to summon McChrystal, the most senior military commander in Afghanistan, to the capital for a standing meeting. McChrystal usually participates via teleconference.
Below are some of the most notable quotes and details from Michael Hasting’s profile of McChrystal, his staff, and the war that the U.S. is fighting in Afghanistan.
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You’d think a State Senator who’s served 17 consecutive years on the State Senate Education Committee would be better informed about state education than a high school student. In this case, you’d be wrong.
High school journalist Keith Wagner, in an interview with Arizona State Senator John Huppenthal about Huppenthal’s bid for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, asks a few basic questions about massive budget cuts to Career and Technical Education funding and ends up utterly embarrassing the State Senator, who appears to know less about his own voting record than the student journalist.
Huppenthal, whose website calls him “one of Arizona’s leading authorities on education issues,” tells his young interviewer in the video, below, how important Career and Technical Education programs are, and that the budget cuts to the programs are “simply horrendous.”
Student: But in May of 2009 you voted Yes on a bill that would cut $550 million to the DOE and a lot of that was for CTE.
Huppenthal: Well…the..Tell me a little more about that vote. What committee did it take place in?
Student: I actually have that right here.
(Student hands Huppenthal a record of the vote. Huppenthal is silent, then laughs nervously.)
Student: This bill actually passed, and then it passed again in the House of Representatives, and ended up cutting $550 million.
Huppenthal awkwardly stands up and walks out of the interview, saying “I’ll be right back,” but does not appear to return.
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Ron Artest is no stranger to bizarre post-game interviews, but the newly crowned NBA champion did not disappoint after the Lakers clinched the 2010 NBA title Thursday night. In an interview immediately following Game 7, the small forward thanked a wide range of friends and associates, including “everybody in my hood,” “my doctor” and “my psychiatrist.” According to Artest, “she really helped me relax a lot.”
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The hosts of “Fox and Friends” were widely ridiculed on Monday morning for their interview with Senate candidate Sharron Angle in which probing — or, more importantly, factually-based — questions seemed to be sorely lacking.
Notably, the hosts stated as fact that Angle was a newcomer to the political scene (she’s not) and had earned the endorsement of Sarah Palin (she hasn’t). It was enough to cause some quizzical and critical takes from the Nevada press, including the local Fox affiliate, which wondered why the network had done such little preparation for the interview (Palin actually gave a “shout-out” to the defeated candidate in the race, Sue Lowden).
Now the Democratic National Committee is also weighing in — though not by calling out the show’s hosts for their softball questions but by slamming Angle herself for misleading viewers by not correcting the record.
“She may think it serves her to be less than straight, but Angle left the wrong impression with Nevada’s Fox News viewers. Sarah Palin didn’t endorse her. And why would she? Not even someone as far out of the mainstream as Sarah Palin shares Sharron Angle’s belief that we should kill Medicare and Social Security and reinstate the prohibition of alcohol,” said DNC National Press Secretary Hari Sevugan.
Angle, of course, has some responsibility to make sure her interviewers are providing the correct information — though the job of ensuring factual accuracy really does belong to the interviewer.
Ironically, the Tea Party candidate went on “Fox and Friends” because it represented a soft landing after what has been a shaky general election campaign rollout so far. But the meekness of the questions may have drawn more negative attention than had she not appeared on the program at all.
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Salma Hayek and Maria Bello rightfully freaked out when they saw a snake during an interview with ‘Extra!’ to promote their upcoming ‘Grown Ups.’
Hayek’s shrieks and cries for help surpassed those of her costar, and she was even carried off the set after climbing onto Maya Rudolph’s neighboring chair.
“Somebody do something!” she shrieked as she climbed over. “Noooooo! Ahhhhhh!”
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