It's a press that will look their leadership in the eye and ask tough questions and demand honest answers. It's a leadership that faces those questions without ground rules, loyalty oaths and prohibitive circumstances. Throw in a room full of concerned citizens who are permitted to speak, and you'll have not only great TV, but a demonstration of an employee of the public essentially having a job evaluation meeting that the rest of us can only have nightmares of.
I may not be Tony Blair's biggest fan, but I've always appreciated his candor, his presentation and his ability to think on his feet. Check that - his ability to think. Period. He faced those questions for not one, but two consecutive nights.
You see things like this - an interview from February 2003 in both video and transcript forms - and you realize what flyweights George W. Bush and his shoelickers in the media are.
Thanks dKos diarist cbsturf.
