Fortunately (in this case), her audience is so small, and the choir so friendly that not much damage will be done.

Of course there are opportunities for improvement, there always are regardless of who’s doing the interview.

Considering the subject, the person and the time span Rachel had, I would say it’s more important to questioning him on as many details as possible instead of pressuring on one or couple specific details, which he wouldn’t have given a straight answer to anyway.

Too bad I have to wait until it gets Friday morning here in Sweden before I can check out tonight’s TRMS. :/

When she asked Bahati how executing people for serial acts of same sex sex protects children Bahati said that part was put in to address a 2007 law that didn’t address the defilement of children. Rachel said nothing in response when she should have pointed out that that section in the current bill does not punish the defilement of children, it kills people for having same sex sex more than once. She should have then asked again how that protects children and kept asking until he answered it or made himself look like the liar he is.

Also, when she asked him if he had evidence that gays were recruting children why hadn’t he shown it he said “We can make it available if you’d like” she repeated that she’d seen no such evidence instead of asking him again, “If you can make it available, why haven’t you?”. When she later asked him again why he hadn’t made that evidence available he said he could email it too her. She said “fine” instead of saying “Okay but again, answer the question, if you have it why haven’t you made it available yet?”. She really let him change the subject and deflect and mislead people.

The only thing she didn’t do was to call him a bigoted liar and a pinhead, but that’s not Rachel’s style when interviewing.

But for the sake of the argument, could anyone of you specify what bullshit Rachel let him get away with unquestioned?

I agree, that was very disappointing.

And Bahati is not comparable to Saddam Hussein? Maybe because he isn’t dictator, but morally, this man is quite possibly worse than Saddam. May he face the same fate.