The Jenna Bush Interview

I'm not going to try linking to it since a lot of the news sites, particularly Yahoo, are notorious about not archiving their news, as well as making video news pretty much impossible to link to. I just watched, twice, an exclusive interview of Jenna Bush by "journalist" Diane Sawyer. I consider myself a legitimate journalist, and this was an absolute travesty. There were several questions about the Iraq War, including a reference to outstanding actor and total whack job Matt Damon claiming that Jenna and her sister Barbara should be sent to Iraq.

To her credit, Jenna fielded all questions adeptly and gracefully; the interview was obviously longer than the two or three minute version I saw on the web. On the question of Matt Damon, she acknowledged that she understands his point, but that sending her to war would be impractical, and that she's trying to serve her country by being a teacher and working for UNICEF. When continuously badgered by "journalist" Diane Sawyer, she noted that she's not a policy maker, and upon further questioning, acknowledged that yes, she does discuss the Iraq War with her friends, but that she wasn't there to discuss it on national television.

I'll admit to having previously harbored the tiniest shred of respect for Diane Sawyer. Badgering the one of the First Daughters about Iraq, and noting the response, even President Bush's daughter has more class than pretty much everyone in the mainstream media.