The always painfully honest Seymour Hersh talks with The Louisville Eccentric Observer's Elizabeth Kramer:

"I’m always a journalist. I read the papers. I usually play off what’s going on today to make the points about where we are, which is not a good place. But, of course, I take questions. I’m dying to hear questions. And when you get out of the East Coast it’s always much more interesting because the questions are more open or sometimes more challenging. But the thing is, in general ... there are a lot of people who really support and have every right to support this president down the line. They think he saved us from terrorism. And it’s hard to, often people don’t deal well with the facts. They resist certain facts.”
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EK: What has it meant to have that forum, The New Yorker, and having sources talk to you?

SH: I don’t think they’re talking to me because I’m working for The New Yorker. I think that The New Yorker is one great advantage for people. They have a thorough [fact] checking system so that people know it’s never adversary. We’re never sandbagging people. We’re always up front about what we’re doing. That helps a lot.