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Did anyone watch 60 Minutes last night, with the interview of MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, the President of Iran? Well I didn’t, but I did read the transcript.

My initial response is that Scott Pelley (the 60 Minutes interviewer) managed to hurt the worlds opinion of Americans even more that it already is.

Read the transcripts. Which person sounds like an educated man patiently trying to explain his point, and which person sounds like a rabid sound-byte loving follower of this administration? Yes, it’s Pelley that sounds like an idiot. He lumps all Americans (as in, “But the American people, sir, believe that your country is a terrorist nation, exporting terrorism in the world.”) in so many questions, it’s shocking. AHMADINEJAD calls him out on it several times, with a “Well, I’m amazed. How can you speak for the whole of the American nation?” And I have to agree with him.

Pelley is a reporter, not a politician. Instead of giving a position-neutral interview, it is very obvious this guy is very pro-war and anti-Iran.

I’m not saying I am pro-Iran necessarily, but this guy Pelley is so rude if I was AHMADINEJAD I would have just walked out before I got angry. I mean, no matter what you think of him, AHMADINEJAD is the President of a nation. Would Pelley be so harsh to, say, Bush? No. Many times Pelley refers to his talks with Bush like they’re best buds or something, and that just makes the predijuce more obvious.

These type of questions though just blew me away. “At the moment, our two countries may very well be walking down the road to war. How do you convince President Bush, how do you convince other nations in the West . . . . ” And AHMADINEJAD is like “um, why?”. It was like Pelley was declaring war or something, and this guy is just a reporter. He doesn’t speak for all of us.

Basically, Scott Pelley was being an arrogant American to a President who was being a gentlemen. And since Pelley was representing us by being there, it was insulting to me.