Frank Rich: "What I've Found Everywhere... Is A Tremendous Sense Of Frustration At Having Been Misled And Lied To About The Iraq War."

Radar | via Romenesko | Posted Thursday November 2, 2006 at 09:40 AM

Over at Radar, Charles Kaiser has a meaty interview with Frank Rich about his book, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, and his views on the dissemblings, obfuscations, and behind-the-scenes-machinations of the Bush administration. What he's found while on his book tour may be instructive on the eve of the election. After describing one incident of an audience member in New York questioning him on whether Saddam Hussein was a WMD in his own right, he goes on to take the temperature of the rest of the country:

What I've found everywhere else--whether in Seattle or Kansas City, though Houston is yet to come--is a tremendous sense of frustration at having been misled and lied to about the Iraq war, an appetite for harder-hitting media that can be trusted, and concern about whether the Democrats will be any better at leading the country out of the morass.