Irish RTE correspondent Carole Coleman submitted her questions three days in advance, and then got this interview. Bush faired predictably poorly, as you can see (8mb Real file).

The White House responded to this interview by lodging a complaint with the Irish embassy over Coleman’s “rudeness,” which in this case means “actually being a reporter who tries to get actual answers instead of the pablum US officials are used to providing.” RTE (Coleman’s employer) stands by their reporter.

At one point, we had real journalists who asked hard questions of officials in our country. Apparently, they’ve all moved to Ireland.

(More commentary at Madison’s Capital Times as well as at lies.com.)