The president of Pakistan is going on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight to plug his new book.In the Time 100 Poll of "The People Who Shape Our World," he is currently ranked at number 13 for 2006.
Pervez Musharraf has been president since 2001 and took power in a bloodless coup d'état in 1999. Since then, and possibly to the envy of Dick Cheney, he has greatly expanded the powers of the presidency in Pakistan and has exiled people who disagree with him, including newspaper reporters and editors, something that (to date) Dick Cheney has not been successful with.
Could a Pakistani Jon Stewart get away with The Daily Show in this country? The answer, I think, is absolutely not.
When people say this is the best country in the world, something that I do agree with, it is because of the freedoms we enjoy here. And it's something you are not likely to appreciate unless you've done much traveling in other countries.
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