A Dubya Donnybrook

Our Irish readers may be interested to note that the Washington Post's White House blogger, Dan Froomkin, appears to be (informally) handing out a Carol Coleman Award for most persistent interviewer in tackling Dubya's usual response technique of cliches and denial of followup questions. Named of course for the RTE interviewer who managed to fluster Dubya, used as he is to "the forensic relentlessness of America's foremost political interviewer, Tim Russert" (laughable blurb supplied by Andrew Sullivan). Anyway, the award goes to a Dutch reporter for this interview. The telltale irritated Dubya ("Let me finish") kicks in about half-way through.