Donald Rumsfeld is currently doing the rounds on the US media circuit plugging his autobiography “Known and Unknown“. Last week one such appearance was on the Opie And Anthony Show, where comedian Louis CK happened to be a guest.

“Louis”, going completely off-base, repeatedly asks the former US Defence Secretary whether he’s a flesh-eating lizard-man. And whether Dick Cheney is too.

Rumsfeld dodges the question with a folksy anecdote about visiting New York and everyone wanting to shake his hand, get his autograph and pay for his dinner. Louis keeps on at Rumsfeld with the lizard rumour again and again, but Rumsfeld refuses to answer the question, later explaining that he “did not just arrive in town falling off a turnip cart.“

It’s oddly fascinating to hear someone who used to pay a major role in the world reduced to deny being an space-lizard-baby-eater on national radio. And to speculate on whether he’d nuke France to save Texas.

When the interview finally ends, Opie declares that Rumsfeld handled Louis’s questions “like a gentlemen and a professional,” to which Louis points out, “He handled it like a lizard who knows how to never answer.“

Strangely you could *just* imagine a radio show doing this to Gordoom if he dared go out in public again.