Reframe and expose:
"Oh I get it, you're a newbie journalist trying to make a name for yourself, so you have to bring up controversial things."
After he responds, just push it further: "I hear the moon landings might not have happened either -- maybe you'd like to discuss that?"
I've seen this work in print. Back in the classic rock era, there were three artists in particular who were very skilled at flipping the script this way and putting the interviewer on the defensive: Lou Reed, Frank Zappa, and Gene Simmons.
Sometimes Reed and Zappa would do things like this even when they weren't confronted, so they'd be the dominant voice in the interviews. Zappa once castigated a writer for taking his liner notes too seriously; Reed once called an interviewer an outsider who would "never be invited to anything cool" if he wasn't a journalist.
"Oh I get it, you're a newbie journalist trying to make a name for yourself, so you have to bring up controversial things."
After he responds, just push it further: "I hear the moon landings might not have happened either -- maybe you'd like to discuss that?"
I've seen this work in print. Back in the classic rock era, there were three artists in particular who were very skilled at flipping the script this way and putting the interviewer on the defensive: Lou Reed, Frank Zappa, and Gene Simmons.
Sometimes Reed and Zappa would do things like this even when they weren't confronted, so they'd be the dominant voice in the interviews. Zappa once castigated a writer for taking his liner notes too seriously; Reed once called an interviewer an outsider who would "never be invited to anything cool" if he wasn't a journalist.