Steve Kroft’s interview of Julian Assange on 60 Minutes this Sunday was unnerving. Assange is a smooth talking, slick looking character radiating a discomfiting aura. He had self-serving answers to all of Kroft’s questions and didn’t hesitate to position himself as a superior being with the divine right to manipulate world leaders and diplomats as he sees fit. He gets to judge them, too.
And he singled out Hillary Clinton for his most intense expression of contempt. Considering that he’s been accused of rape by two women in Sweden, one detects a strong tendency toward misogyny.
More frightening than any other aspect of the interview, though, was Assange’s apparently unquestioned belief that he knows what’s best for all people – kind of a God complex, wouldn’t you say?
In the meantime, the man determined to expose the secrets of others, whether endangering innocent lives or not, is himself surrounded by secrecy.
Watch the interview on 60 Minutes:
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