FLASHBACK: ABC Fawned Over Holocaust-Denying Dictator: How Often Do You Cry?

[See NewsBusters for more.] ABC last week struggled to respond to Whoopi Goldberg’s shocking comments that the Holocaust wasn’t about race. But this is the same network that once fawned over the Holocaust-denying former leader of Iran. Fifteen years ago this week, then-Good Morning America host Diane Sawyer gushed about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a “sentimental,” “sympathetic” man who cries a lot since he’s so caring. On February 13, 2007, Sawyer introduced an interview with the then-Iranian leader: “A number of people have already said is there anything surprising, personal about President Ahmadinejad that we didn't know? Well, it turns out, someone told me he cries a lot. That he is dramatically sentimental and sympathetic if someone comes up and expresses a personal plight. So I just asked him, are you often in tears?”