Part 3 of the BBC documentary “The Last Republican”
October 22nd, 2008 . by MartyI’m starting to see a pattern of things that I say and do being taken out of context by a wiley reporter with a sultry British accent. After our interview, she got in touch with Danny and he - very generously I think - shared some footage we had at the Institute of me in Iraq. But does she show the shots of me meeting with Paul Bremmer or President Maliki as we helped to build the Iraqi democracy? No, she takes some inconsequential tape of me - quite legitimately - working to establish a telecommunications infrastructure in the country as part of a project with AID, and makes it look like I’m some sort of Crazy Eddie pitchman for cellphones. Well, you can see for yourself:
