Fareed Zakaria was once again on The Daily Show tonight. Someone should really clue in the on-point Jon Stewart, that his good friend Fareed Zakaria was one of the biggest supporters for our invasion of Iraq.
The Village Voice pretty much nails it in it's opening (one run on sentence) paragraph.
Fareed Zakaria's career reads like some crazy America fantasy: Neoconservative policy wonk becomes darling of the ultra-liberal Daily Show. Political columnist and editor of Newsweek International is dubbed an "intellectual heartthrob" by Jon Stewart. Upper-class Indian academic raised in mostly secular household becomes America's favorite explainer of the Muslim world, regularly appearing on Charlie Rose, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, and now on his own weekly PBS news series, Foreign Exchange With Fareed Zakaria (airing Saturdays at 10 a.m. on WNET).
But Fareed is soooooo much more ...
Fareed wants to change his stripes. The Huffington Post recently introduced him as 'former neocon'. As a matter of fact if you google Fareed and neocon you'll read pages of denouncements before you get to the entries where Fareed was considered one of the friends of the Bush administration and supported the invasion.
So we all change, but it would be nice if Jon could dish up a couple of insightful questions.
As for me ... it's all ... Fareed, you tiger now!
And oh ... Fareed ... this is just for you ...