Thursday, October 05, 2006

i saw this video on youtube:



This was an episode from the Daily Show featuring guest Pervez Musharraf.
Firstly, what the Pakistani president seems to be doing as propaganda is very interesting-i mean, he actually appeared on The Daily Show, for christs sake!
And to me, he seemed pretty much unflustered, very calm, retaining a certain degree of humor(well, the interview wasn't typical JS type - pulling the leg humor). But there were a couple of real high points. Firstly JS offered some 'quality tea'(it seemed to have some Urdu written on the bottle) and after Musharraf took his seat, JS casually slipped in," So, Where is Osama bin Laden?!!". Musharraf's face told it all! But to his credit, he managed to give a reasonably good answer.
And at the end of the interview, JS took Musharraf through a 'tricky' question on the "Hot Seat" part of the daily show. The question posed was, "If there is an election today in pakistan and the contenders are Osama bin Laden and George Bush, who would win?"!!
I think Musharraf came up with a pretty good and diplomatic answer there. To me the bigger thing is that Musharraf seems to be trying his best to portray the moderate face of Pakistan as hard as he can and get the western world to disassociate them from the terrorist loonies from the "Axis-of-evil Iraq, Iran" and Afghanistan.
Much of the interview of course had to do with his book, 'In the Line of Fire'.

See the video - it is pretty good material.

No comments: