I can't identify the interviewer, but I hope she is alive and has lived long enough to see the absolute truth of Frank Zappa's words. George Carlin made similar observations ("They own you" he once said, and was absolutely correct).
My God, how would Zappa feel today?
We've been through unjustified and unjustifiable bloody and pointless wars in Granada and the Middle East, have supported dictatorships, seen the electoral process whored out to big money and, of course, Mother Russia, and allowed the Federal government to wage a war on the poor, especially the black and brown poor whom it is trying its best to disenfranchise, as well.
Bush Senior wasn't terrible, but he was a Corporate whore on an international scale (Carlyle Group, anyone?).
Bill Clinton was aptly called a "good Republican President" by Michael Moore (Remember Glass-Steagall, the law protecting the little guy from big-bank speculators? Who signed its repeal?), but I think he more than half believed the crap spewed by Alan Greenspan and others of that economic ilk. I also think he did "feel our pain" in a way the sociopathic Republicans who tried to drive him out of office could only mock and hold up to each other as an object worthy of ridicule.
The crowning glory was, of course, President Cheney and his side-kick, GW Bush, who let us know that, if we hadn't the stomach for torture and extra-judicial murders of foreign nationals, we really couldn't call ourselves "real Americans", now, could we?
Obama? My criticism of him is tempered, seriously muted, in fact, by the fact that he was fighting against an openly racist Republican Party, the same Party which ushered in what may be the last Presidency in America, led by the most egregious and venomous liar in our history.
So I wonder what the interviewer would say about how things have turned out for America in the intervening years since she reacted in shock at what Mr. Zappa told her.
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