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there s an old trick of journalism, people don t like to here it, but it goes on. joe mcguinnes, one of the best ever used to do it years ago. he would hold an interview with somebody with a tape recorder on taking notes or whatever, and at the end of the interview the person he was interviewing would think that s over with, let s just chat for a while. that s when the real interview begins. was this one of those cases where general mcchrystal thought he was giving this reporter a whole interview with lots of facts and figures about the war and it was only afterwards or during breaks in those interviews that this reporter got the real story? no. in other words okay, good. your reaction. you read the story and you see that this is this is a fly on the wall story, not a single interview in which somebody made a comment after the fact or forgot themselves. this is over days and days, the general and his top team telling us all sorts of things, i think very honestly, about ho
what s astounding about the opening scene you quoted with the joe biden bite me quote is that the time that mcchrystal got in trouble before was for answering a question after a speech in london about the vice president in which he sort of mocked the vice president s strategy, and here he is again in a room preparing for a speech in paris wondering what kinds of questions he might get about biden and joking in front of a reporter about how he s going to laugh off the vice president, so that s that was that was one of the most astounding things to me. there s an old trick of journalism, people don t like to their but it goes on. joe mcguinnes, one of the best ever used to do it years ago. he would hold an interview with somebody with a tape recorder on taking notes or whatever, and at the end of the interview the person he was interviewing would think that s over with, let s just chat for a while. that s when the real interview begins. was this one of those cases where general mcc