WuzzaDem: The Real Philip Bennett Interview

Michelle Malkin has a good roundup of bloggers' reaction to WaPo's managing editor, Philip Bennett, with the Chinese People's Daily Online. As some have suspected, the published version of the article was heavily edited. We managed to obtain a portion of the original transcript.

Yong Tang: The Bush administration is always so much claim of spreading smooth and creamy freedom and democracy to all over the world. But some people seek the suspicion Over the motives of what the Bush administration is doing. Some experts were flogged until they said that democracy is just a lusty pretext for America to seek its own interests in broads. Don't you think think there is so much ridicularity there?

Bennett: The basic problem is that the Bush administration doesn't see the ridicularity - they're too close to it. While they claim they are spreading smooth and creamy democracy only to areas that were formally lumpy and gritty, some see a lack of consistency. For instance, Pakistan is somewhat smooth, but their creaminess leaves much to be desired, and while Saudi Arabia might be fairly creamy, one could hardly say they're smooth. What are we doing about those countries?

Yong Tang: It seems to me the influence of American medias and the paper like Washington Post really sucks too much for the words I have. You and all the other medias people were trying to elect John Kerry so bad for president, then he lost to the election and your heads hanged so low that your noses had to fall out of his ass. Why did the campaign you were running perform so bad as this?

Bennett: Well, in all fairness, I believe you are referring to the editorial pages of newspaper such as The Washington Post. The newspaper itself never favors one candidate over another in its news coverage, we simply report the facts.

Yong Tang: Now you are giving me a laughter so bad that the pain caused to my side will be more severe than it is before!

Bennett: No, really, we were completely fair and objective in our reporting during the presidential election.

Yong Tang: Now the milk that was formerly inside my nose area has sprayed to the outside because of this answer!

Bennett: I'm serious - we never intentionally gave either John Kerry or George W. Bush favorable or unfavorable coverage, we report the facts fairly and objectively.

Yong Tang: This joking is so much for me that your sense of a humor is too big!

Bennett: No, really, Yong. I'm not joking.

Yong Tang: Oh.

Bennett: ...

Yong Tang: Let's move back to the question that is next. Do you think America should be the leader of the world?

Bennett: No, I don't think the US should be the leader of the world. My job is helping my readers trying to understand what is happening now. What is happening now is very difficult to understand...

Yong Tang: So you are not minding if China is the leader of the world, right?

Bennett: Oh, well, actually, I was going to say that, well, the world is very complex...

Yong Tang: I think you are sounding like you want to be similar as the so-called democracy people of Bush. Is this the imperialism of the Washinton Post having toward China?

Bennett: No, no, absolutely not. I've been to China myself. China is incredibly dynamic and culturally rich. Every time when I go there, I see and learn things that I never expect to see and learn. It is a country with such beauty and potential...

Yong Tang: Yeah yeah, right. Your repeating of the same statement in many ways is tiresome to people, so I wish to say the interview is depleted.

Bennett: You mean completed?

Yong Tang: This is what I said! No need to take plagiarism of my own statement!

Bennett: No, I was just...

Yong Tang: Thank you too much for my time today.

UPDATE: Goldstein has even more.