Looks like Bradley couldn't even answer one question, and an easy one at that considering that the father and son despot dynasty has ruled in this hotspot for decades:
POLITICS
Bradley Turns Down Pop Quiz, Questioning Its Value
By Mike Allen
Sunday, November 7, 1999; Page A04
Bill Bradley, perhaps the nation's most famous scholar-athlete, refused to take a quiz on world leaders like the one that flummoxed another presidential candidate, Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
During a long-scheduled interview, Andy Hiller, political reporter for WHDH-TV, the NBC station in Boston, asked, "Can you identify the leader of North Korea?"
"I'm not going to get into this--I'm not going to play this game," Bradley answered. "I think these are pop questions, and I don't think they illustrate, really, the qualities that are important to be president."
In an exchange two days earlier, Bush answered one of four questions Hiller asked him about heads of state in world hot spots.
On Friday morning, Bradley joked that he had spent the night boning up on world leaders. But when he met Hiller that afternoon, he objected to such questions.
"Clearly, it's important to know how a country functions, its leader, who it is at a particular time," Bradley said. "What I'm objecting to is that this is a technique that's used to supposedly illustrate the depth of knowledge someone has about, say, foreign policy. . . . And I don't think that it does."
Bradley said every politician would have to decide how to answer such questions. "People aren't going to tell journalists what to do, but politicians have to draw the line," he said. Asked about the propriety of such inquiries, Bradley said, "That is something that legitimate journalists struggle for."
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I wonder why Bradley's feign at an easy one didn't make the headlines? Do you think they'll ask AlGore to identify Washington?
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