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"I mean - really - how hard do you think they tried to get George W. on?"
Well, Letterman spent *months* trying to get Junior to come on Late Night in person, after his pathetic early appearance via sattelite.
And just how much effort should MTV have to make? Surely Bush's own people should be more anxious than MTV to get their candidate in front of young voters, shouldn't *they* have been the ones trying hardest to get him on?
Bush Sr. refused to appear on MTV, Junior may well have done likewise. Given his noted problems with certain interview formats, his handlers may well have thought it best to keep Junior away from unrehearsed dialogs with MTV viewers. They probably couldn't get him to stop giggling like a school girl when asked the "boxers or briefs" question (say what you will about Pat Robertson, at least he had the stones to tell-off the person who asked *him* that question). If Junior had one of those things like Clinton had, where he was taking questions from the young audience, all it would have taken was *one* kid to ask "Aren't you, like, too *dumb* to be President?" - no matter how Junior responded, and even if MTV didn't broadcast that question, word of it happening would be fucking EVERYwhere in a matter of hours and the story would be all over the news for at least a week.
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