SLIMY BUT EFFECTIVE

Ann Curry interviewed the President of Sudan this morning on TODAY. This is the guy who, it is generally agreed, is responsible for the genocide in Darfur we keep hearing about, hundreds of thousands of deaths. If you missed the interview, you missed one of those moments that is likely to show up all over the TV for the next few days: on the news, on The Daily Show, SNL, wherever. This is just an early heads-up.

Ann Curry has her own style. It isn’t very journalistic – cold, dry, just the facts – it’s more maternal, as if a concerned soccer-mom were talking to heads of state. You know, she cares.

So she sit across from this guy who practically has blood dripping off his suit, pulls out some pictures and says, “I got these pictures at the Stat Department. They show where (x amount of people) were killed and that your troops killed them. What do you have to say about that?”

Without batting an eye he replies, “Collin Powel went before the United Nations and showed them pictures of weapons of mass destruction. What do you think of that?”

It was slimy, but effective.