Jon Stewart interviewed Marc A. Thiessen last night. Thiessen is the former Bush speech writer whose recently-published book is Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack.

Typically, the Daily Show segments are about 7:30-8:30 for the first segment, 4:30-6:00 for the second, and the interview segment is 6:00-7:00, depending on the guest. For example, last week Lynne Olsen, author of Citizens of London, got 6:16; astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson 6:43. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff Admiral Mullen got two segments totalling over 9 minutes. Newt Gingrich recently got 7:35.

So last night, when the first segment was just over 5 minutes and the second just over 4, I figured the interview with Thiessen would be pretty combative. Sure enough, it was, over an uninterrupted 10:56.

Since Thiessen objected at the end that he wasn’t given a chance to state his positions, I thought I’d edit the interview and include just Thiessen’s remarks. You can judge for yourself below whether Thiessen was given adequate time … while considering the context of the relative importance of a former Bush speech writer talking about Liz Cheney’s claims, to say, Newt Gingrich or the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

You can see the full episode here: http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/tue-march-9-2010-marc-thiessen