I have to disagree with you on that. The interviewer set out to make the congressman look like a total fool and he succeeded wildly.
For a person to behave like Stark did, using foul language while being recorded, and actually threatening the interviewer with physical harm, (on camera) clearly shows the interviewee felt trapped, and backed into a corner.
Stark was obviously ill equipped to handle these questions, and his logic and reason reached a dead end, and all that was left was profanity and threats.
I personally have seen this many times when people are backed into a corner with really hard questions, and they know damn well their responses will clearly be seen as inconstant or just flat out lies.
I don’t know - I think Mr. Stark could handled making himself a total fool regardless of the interviewer.
However, I still think this interviewer failed to control the interview and allowed Mr. Stark to end it abruptly, hence preventing the interviewer from getting any substantive information.
The proof is that only a small minority of the observers and commentators are discussing the fact that Mr. Stark is but a small cog in a giant problem of a wheel that needs resolution. Most people have reacted to his emotional reaction to the interviewer - giving Mr. Stark the win to me as far as completely controlling the interview and getting away without being held to task on his “deeper” understanding of the monetary system.