The Media Interview

I was reading Where Do You Stand’s piece on Dick Cheney’s wife promoting her new book on The Daily Show. Justin calls Lynne Cheney’s chat with Jon Stewart “one of the most awkward interviews I’ve ever witnessed”. Even Comedy Central promotes the clip as “an extremely uncomfortable interview.”

Now it’s Daily Show guests who often appear a bit awkward, but this time it was Stewart himself who didn’t quite know where to go with things. Part of it I’m sure was that he was trying to restrain himself from asking some truly embarrassing questions. There were enough slightly embarrassing questions, and Lynne Cheney was well prepared for stepping into the lion’s den - unlike Paris Hilton on David Letterman. Cheney threw in some of her own jokes without waiting for Stewart to make them, and she steered things away from potentially sticky points.

This is part two of the interview (part one is here), with some of the more awkward moments - see what you think.