Yesterday * gave an interview in the German TV

[MissHoneychurch]

with a German journalist. A good one. I read this morning that the journalist asked tough questions and that * couldn't answer.
Still, I couldn't watch it. Alone to see * face made me turn off the TV as fast as never before. How can you stand seeing * on TV?? How can you stand having him as president?

[habitual]

1. for one

i could stand it if i were watching a german reporter stick it to him.... just like i enjoyed watching him turn more and more red as colbert roasted, broiled, baked, fried, and skewered him.


edit to add: anyone got a link to the interview? :)

[MissHoneychurch]

2. I looked for a transcript

but right now none to found yet. And the comments are all in German. If you don't mind a German comment: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,414934,00.html

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Is this it?

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-07-2006/0004355990&EDATE=


Q We Germans seem to be more involved -- have been more involved in the
Iraq war than anybody else knew -- involuntarily, I would like to say.
Because the U.S. intelligence services used German airports for secret
rendition flights, and interrogated, even, German citizens -- hardly what
you'd expect, I would say, from a friend and ally.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, on intelligence matters, it's my
policy not to talk about them, otherwise they're not intelligence matters
anymore. And the questions you ask will be all -- in some cases, analyzed
through courts, in some cases through press inquiry. But Germany is a
friend.
Q But the behavior itself? Is it behavior for an ally --

THE PRESIDENT: Well, like, what are you talking about?
Q I mean that you do this, that you don't ask for help for some of the
ally, that you don't inform the ally and so on.
THE PRESIDENT: On like what subject, for example?

Q Like these flights, for example.

[MissHoneychurch]

4. Yes that is it

funnily I saw that part of the interview.

* winding was interesting. But I couldn't stand his smirk, that is why I turned off.

[freeplessinseattle]

5. This is gold!

Q Let me ask you another question to the war on terrorism. How do you
want, really, to fight terrorism when you are so dependent on Arabian oil?

THE PRESIDENT: That's an interesting question. I've never thought of it
that way. The first thing we ought to do is get off oil.

Q That's what you said.


THE PRESIDENT: And I mean that. Yes, I know.

Q Do you mean that, really?

THE PRESIDENT: Absolutely. Oil has become -- it's an economic risk for
us. I mean, after all, if the oil -- if the demand for oil goes up in India
or China, fast-growing economies, it affects the price of gasoline in the
United States and in Germany. It's also a national security issue,
obviously. Oil comes from unstable parts of the world. So I'm absolutely
serious about getting off of oil.

Q Because we, in Europe, we asked this when we heard your speech, and
we said oil is now --

THE PRESIDENT: You don't believe old George W.?

[Crankie Avalon]

14. He's "...never thought of it that way."

What DOES this guy think about???:scared:

[MissHoneychurch]

15. How to make more money for himself

and his cronies.

[leftchick]

6. omg, the valley girl talk again?!?

like what? What a fucking embarassment.

[leftchick]

7. god I need a shower after that!

<snip>

The debate -- let me just cut to the chase. I said I didn't support
Kyoto -- and all of a sudden everybody said, well, George W. Bush doesn't
care about clean air -- it's just rubbish. Of course I care about the
quality of the air. As a matter of fact, the quality of the air has
improved since I've been the President of the United States. But what I
didn't want to do is wreck our economy, nor did I think it made sense to
sign on to a treaty that didn't include countries like India and China. And
so my attitude is, let's get beyond the debate and work in a cooperative
fashion to share technologies, to share that which we're researching with
each other, and have a new era of energy that is wise about how we treat
the environment, too.


:puke:

[Kellanved]

8. I must have missed the tough querstions

The interview was a staged pro-Merkel and pro-Bush event. Not a single tough question in there.

[MissHoneychurch]

9. Compared to "questions" in the U.S.

they were tough.

As said, I didn't watch it as I couldn't stand *. I believe you. Then I must say that I expected more from Christiansen. Maybe Maischberger should have done the interview.

[Kellanved]

10. Why expect more of Chrstiansen?

She's known for her close relationship with Merkel and her admiration for the Bush administration (her bias makes her show a bad joke).
Maischberger would have been better, which is the precise reason why Christiansen was allowed to do it. The questions were agreed on in advance anyway, plus a three-day edit period for the whitehouse.

[MissHoneychurch]

11. I didn't know she was close to Merkel

and her administration. Thanks for clearing that up.

I guess we can't expect much more from the second interview then. Not that I know the interviewer to begin with.

[michael_1166]

12. I also just couldn't watch the interview

Bush AND Christiansen together on one screen probably would have made my TV set implode.

By the way, is this the thread where all the German DUers meet? ;-)

[MissHoneychurch]

13. I wanted to say

welcome to DU but then I saw that you are longer a member than I am :blush:

I think I will spare myself the second ínterview as well.

[michael_1166]

16. So I say welcome to DU ! ;-)

while bowing to you being 95 times as active in posting messages than I am...

[MissHoneychurch]

17. Thanks to the Lounge

that is where I post most times. Only once in a while here in GD.