So...

...I watched last night's Daily Show on TiVo a little while ago, and I must say...watching Jon Stewart interview Musharraf was pretty depressing for me. Stewart gets these people (Musharraf, Clinton, McCain, hell even Buchanan) to loosen up and open up and say twice as much as they would say anywhere else. And that's cool and all...I've watched the show religiously since Mo Rocca asked McCain "What do you have against Iceland, Senator?" in early 2000, but...seriously? The only place a politician can a) give something other than canned answers or b) actually get a pressing follow-up question when he/she does give a canned answer is...a fake news show?

It's pretty easy to see why, really. Jon Stewart is still Jon Stewart...he loosens you up...he keeps things relatively light. He presented Musharraf with tea and Twinkies yesterday, then suddenly asked, "Where's bin Laden?" Everybody laughed, but my god...less than five minutes later, Musharraf was talking openly about how he considered war against the US in 2001. He got John McCain to admit he was selling himself out to win the Presidency in '08. He got Howard Dean to admit that putting doorknob hangers with Democrat talking points is, well, kind of silly. He had Pat Buchanan on on Monday, and by the end of the interview, Buchanan was so loose that he made a "The Indians had an open border policy, and look what happened to them!" joke.

Anyway, relying on TiVo means I'm always 24 hours behind, so other bloggers have already mentioned the Musharraf interview, but hey...better late than never to join in...