The sign of a good interviewer is that you listen to the people you’re interviewing.

It looks like he was just on cruise control and wasn’t paying attention to what President Obama was saying. That doesn’t bode well for Todd’s interviewing abilities.

Now, what’s the right wing view from the interview? They’ll focus on the Todd claim that Obama didn’t talk about Syria when he did (which goes to the right’s complete inability to follow facts as well as their dissembling ways).

Or, they’ll turn around and claim that if Obama did mention it, it strayed from what Todd was asking. Or that he didn’t say the right thing (which goes without saying).