Julian Assange on 60 Minutes

By Mark | January 30, 2011

For those of you, like me, without access to a working television, here’s the 60 Minutes interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that ran earlier this evening.

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6 Comments

Kim

Posted January 30, 2011 at 11:46 pm | Permalink

Just because someone’s a douchey egomaniac doesn’t mean they can’t be right.
K2

Posted January 31, 2011 at 9:48 am | Permalink

I liked his correction about not being a martyr…. yet.
Bob

Posted January 31, 2011 at 11:02 am | Permalink

I don’t really buy some of the things he says, like his insistence that he doesn’t hate the US govt. But only the truly pinheaded of the right-wing can deny how reasonable and well spoken he is about his motivations. It’s tough not to agree with most of what he says, even if he is slightly creepy.
Leach

Posted January 31, 2011 at 11:30 am | Permalink

Regardless of whether or not he’s guilty of his alleged sex crimes, I find the charge of “sex by surprise” to be fascinating. The Swedes never cease to amaze me.
Meta

Posted January 31, 2011 at 12:57 pm | Permalink

CBS’s Kroft after 6 hour interview with Assange: “I don’t think he’s the evil genius people have portrayed him to be […] I thought he did a very good job of defending his arguments quite honestly […] After talking to him, I consider him a journalist.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20029950-10391709.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
notoneofthecoolkids

Posted February 1, 2011 at 9:42 am | Permalink

I watched the interview Sunday and it just reinforced what I already thought about wikileaks which was that they are simply doing what real reporters used to do before every newspaper was owned by a big corporations. Reporters used to risk everything to dig into stories and get the truth.