Musharraf on ‘Daily Show’
Here’s the full Musharraf interview on the Daily Show:
Musharraf unsubtly reminds the world that Pakistan has nukes. Jon Stewart fawns:
Let’s say if there was an election held today in Pakistan — not, clearly, for your job, ’cause you’re doing a wonderful job….
Not, clearly, for your job, ’cause you’ve banned that…
In this Al Franken interview, Stewart talks about how unexpectedly tall Musharraf is, and how the show staff had to go to Queens to get proper Pakistani tea instead of Tetley (which is now owned by an Indian company). At 4:05, he suggests that if Franken runs for Senate, he should pick out someone in the crowd and call him ‘macaca.’
You don’t want to go into the last month of a campaign where the only issue is not ‘Are you a racist,’ but, ‘How big a racist are you?’
Related post: A Mushie ‘60 Minutes’
on Thursday, September 28th, 2006, 9:55 pm in Humor, Macacagate, Military, Musharraf, Politics, TV, Video clips › 
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Alright, I agree that Musharraf’s a pogue on a political stick and that he’s cultivating all kinds of havoc in the world, but in terms of pure entertainment… he’s entertaining. And, as for Stewart and the complaint that he never really hammers nails into the big fish, well, I think its deliberate and not a very good interview style for the show (seriously, if I thought he was going to ask Musharraf ‘hard-hitting’ questions, I wouldn’t have watched and really, what’s the point in barking like a junkyard dog when his whole angle is cheshire cat)
After the Bombay bombings, I agree, Musharraf has a long career in comedy.