Brendan Nyhan

Costas presses Bush in Olympics interview

Was anyone else surprised that Bob Costas made the traditional softball interview of the president by a sportscaster so substantive? (Hopefully the White House press corps was taking notes.) Judging by Bush’s joke at the end of the interview about Costas not letting him leave, he may have been surprised too.

Update 8/11 11:13 AM: The YouTube video I had previously embedded has been taken down; here’s an NBC video link that excludes some OS/browser/chipset combinations, including mine.