Tim Russert cuts interview short...

[mburbank]

If you don't see a difference in the impotance of interviewing a journalist about a book and interviewing the secretary of state about a war... well, I'm not surprised.

And it may well be that Emily was just trying to keep things to a schedule. Who knows. Colin Powell has done well in interviews lately. I liked where he said that the CIA had been deliberatley mislead. On the other hand, it's pretty hard to make a case for sinister motives cutting short a puff piece where you get to promote your book, and when you're secretary of state answering question about all the things that have gone wrong in the war your country is fighting, there's a tad more at stake. I'm sure that's just me.

I've seen the interview, and I think if that's 'balistic', that writer must have a coronary when his alarm goes off in the morning.