There’s an interesting (if rather “bullet-pointy”) interview in the Boston Globe today with Mike Wallace, the 87-year-old bulldog reporter that nervous CEOs don’t want to see waiting in their lobbies when the arrive for work in the morning. His trademark bluntness is on full display here, especially when it comes to the current President Bush:

Q. President George W. Bush has declined to be interviewed by you. What would you ask him if you had the chance?

 

A. What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world? In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious. You didn’t want to travel. You knew very little about the military. . . . The governor of Texas doesn’t have the kind of power that some governors have. . . . Why do you think they nominated you? . . . Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the country is so [expletive] up?

That’s a 60 Minutes segment I’d definitely tune in to see. Unfortunately, given this president’s aversion to appearing before any but the most supportive audience, I think it’ll probably happen about the same time Wallace gets Jim Morrison to sit down with him and chat about what life in the Phantom Zone with Jimmy Hoffa is really like.