Was Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just too tired to talk to Christiane Amanpour? Newsblues has the story about the exclusive, that wasn’t.
ANDERSON COOPER: We were anticipating, obviously, a lengthy sit-down interview with President Ahmadinejad. What happened?
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We’re not entirely sure. We thought we would have a long interview, at least 30 minutes. We were promised that. We were told early [Wednesday] morning that, in fact, he had a lot of business to take care of and that he was very tired, because as you know, he’s had a very full public schedule here in New York.
COOPER: So as of this morning, they canceled?
AMANPOUR: They did. He had that dramatic confrontation at Columbia University on Monday. Then they said that, OK, maybe he would in a few hours do about 15 minutes with us. But when it turned out — when he did arrive, he said he had only time for one question. We managed to ask two questions.