Media Matters - Savage on Sawyer: a "lying whore" who "in essence, is agreeing that the Holocaust didn't occur"
On the February 16 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage asserted that ABC News correspondent Diane Sawyer was "aiding and abetting" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a February 13 interview in which, Savage claimed, Sawyer had refused to challenge Ahmadinejad's statements denying the existence of the Holocaust. Savage said: "Here Diane Sawyer goes to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and does not once say to him, 'How could you deny the Holocaust? Here are the pictures of the 6 or 7 million Jews that Hitler killed. How dare you do this to the world?' " Savage added: "So Diane Sawyer, in essence, is agreeing that the Holocaust didn't occur." In fact, in her interview with Ahmadinejad, Sawyer stated, "I do not want to debate again the whole question of the Holocaust -- whether the Holocaust is a myth, which you have said," but then asked: "Would you be willing to go to Auschwitz and see their documentation? You're a scientist. Would you be willing to look at the room with documentation?" When Ahmadinejad responded: "Do you think it would solve any problem?" Sawyer replied: "It would be information for you if you genuinely believe it's a myth..."
About that flap over left-wing nasty mouth...
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I think she should have said and done more to push him about it...but then he might have got up and not finished the interview either...
That's always the problem with interviews-- push too hard and away they go-- if they have good sense. I'll quote Frank from Homicide. "People are crazy. They should never talk to us." I've seen quite a few interviews (think Hannity) that if I'd been on the other end, I would have told the interviewer to shove it. So, overall, I think Sawyer did ok with it. Any harder and Abu-J would have gone clam I think.
Uh, that was me as old Anon. Forgot to sign-in.
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