Ireland: Ahead Of The Curve Since 2004

This interview of President Bush is from 2004 but it's very telling even today; it's refreshing to see a journalist who isn't worried about a return interview or maintaining access when asking the President of the United States hard and pointed questions. That's one reason the White House Correspondent's Association Dinner has always made me so uncomfortable; aside from Stephen Colbert's masterful performance a few years back, it's always seemed like a big love-fest between the press corps and the very people they've been tasked with policing.

Notice how he has to continually interrupt her to be able to throw out the prewritten talking points he's usually able to spout off without any challenge from the cowtowing American media. Erin Go Bragh: