If you’re near the telly tonight, check out the CBS Evening News, which will air a portion of Mike Wallace’s Tuesday interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Or, better yet, set your DVR for Sunday, when CBS will show the whole interview on 60 Minutes.

Some highlights, according to the AP:

Twenty-seven years after a chilling sit-down with Ayatollah Khomeini that was one of Mike Wallace’s most memorable, the CBS newsman snagged an interview this week with current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.

The 88-year-old Wallace had been pursuing the interview for so long that he had to be reminded by Ahmadinejad when he first asked for it. [...]

Wallace said he and producers Bob Anderson and Casey Morgan had been seeking the interview for more than a year, since he sat next to Ahmadinejad at a United Nations breakfast and told the Iranian leader that he’d like to come to Iran to talk to him someday. Wallace admitted he had forgotten about that encounter until the Iranian president brought it up.

Summoned to Iran for the interview, Wallace and his team waited for nearly a week until he was brought in to speak to Ahmadinejad.

And:

Wallace said he was surprised to find that the Iranian president was still a college professor who taught a graduate-level course.

Just remember that, kiddies, as you head back to school this month. Yeah, your professor might suck balls, but at least you aren’t enrolled in Political Science 101 with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I hear the man’s a real prick with the grading curve.

Originally posted @ www.kellygarbato.com/blog/2006-08-10/
Filed under: Current Events, The Media — Kelly @ August 10, 2006 12:25 pm

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