CBS foreign correspondent: Watching US news would ‘drive me nuts’

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Chief CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan, who recently returned from Iraq, appeared on Tuesday's Daily Show.

"Do we know anything about what's going on over there?" Jon Stewart asked.

I don't think we really do have very much of an idea," Logan replied. "We have all these armchair academics who go over for one visit. See Laura Bush saying, 'This is my third time in Afghanistan.' She doesn't mention that she was only there for a few seconds."

The outspoken Logan — who has stated in the past that Americans have no idea how badly the war is going because of the suppression of pictures of American casualties — made no attempt to hide her contempt for American coverage of the Iraq and Afghan Wars.

"Do you watch the news that we're watching in the United States?" Stewart asked. "Do you see what we're hearing about the war?"

"No," replied Logan. "If I were to watch the news that you hear in the United States, I'd just blow my brains out, because it would drive me nuts."

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