KA: Speaking of The Daily Show, I'm always impressed by how comfortably Jon Stewart interviews Kissinger or even Richard Perle.
LW: Jon's tremendous. I feel, though, when you are interviewing a Richard Perle or a Kissinger, if you give them a pass, then you become what you are satirizing. You have a war criminal sitting on your couch-to just let him be a war criminal sitting on your couch means you are having to respect some kind of boundary.
KA: On Air America, would you give a pass to Al Sharpton?
LW: I don't think so. [But] that's a different case, because you make a decision based on Tawana Brawley, and that's a tired story.
KA: But Vietnam happened longer ago. Cambodia happened longer ago.
LW: I think that illegal bombings and massacres have more weight.
KA: So did that disappoint you, when Jon Stewart was nice to Kissinger?
LW: I don't mean that you would necessarily need to grill Kissinger. But to let it go.Š
KA: So you should jokingly say, "Say, Dr. Kissinger, what about those 2 million dead CambodiansŠ?"
LW: Exactly! As a way to say something. To me, it seems like the elephant in the room.