Don't let anyone say Stewart lets his guests get away...

Jon Stewart interviewed John Bolton. I believe Bolton is the highest Bush administration official (past or present)? And he hit him pretty well to get at least interesting commentary about the administration's supposed point of view.



Bolton :
"I suggest the President has a responsibility to be true to the people who voted for him and to put people in office who are sympathetic to his positions. Otherwise, what's the point of having elections?"

Uh.... no. The President is elected to serve the people... all of them... the best interest of the American public as a whole. "Democratic theory," which Bolton refers to several times, does not believe that whoever wins the election gets to dictate for four years because 51% of the electoral college voted in such a manner on one day. The President's job is to continually address issues with regards to what will be the best decision for all of us, because we cannot all make those decisions collectively and daily.

That hurts that, according to Bolton, the administration's mentality is still that of "having" 'political capital' which means they can now do whatever they want (leaving the fact that they already 'spent' all of their supposed political capital and are sitting at 36% approval).


Another great quote :
"...The ability to have candid opinions and views in private is very important."

To which Jon Stewart gives a great response that if we could have that right, which we haven't had in a while, that maybe we could negotiate the other stuff.


But really, in this interview Steward really does do a good job of asking strong questions, and getting some articulate answers out of Bolton, not to mention, seems to have mastered the interview techniques of starting out slow so you're only punching him hard in the stomach towards the end. Really a must watch piece.


So to Tucker on Crossfire :: here, now he really hit an important interviewee with hard questions... whatchu got?