Wallace vs. Clinton (a fox exclusive)
IN an interview that was supposed to be a 50/50 interview first about the "Clinton Global Initiative Program" then about any other topic, Wallace takes only two minutes into the interview to try and ambush Clinton about his dealings with Osama and Al Qaeda.
Wallace shows his unprofessionalism and his partisan based motives pretty early and pretty quickly. Clinton handles him with ease.
See it here:
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/fox_fns_clinton_.mov
NEW YORK (AP) - In a combative interview on "Fox News Sunday," former president Bill Clinton defended his handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, saying he tried to have bin Laden killed and was attacked for his efforts by the same people who now criticize him for not doing enough."That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now," Clinton said in the interview, taped Friday. "They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try."
Clinton accused host Chris Wallace of a "conservative hit job" and asked: "I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked, 'Why didn't you do anything about the Cole?' I want to know how many people you asked, 'Why did you fire Dick Clarke?"'
He was referring to the USS Cole, attacked by terrorists in Yemen in 2000, and former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke.
Wallace said Sunday he was surprised by Clinton's "conspiratorial view" of "a very non-confrontational question, 'Did you do enough to connect the dots and go after al-Qaida?"'
"All I did was ask him a question, and I think it was a legitimate news question. I was surprised that he would conjure up that this was a hit job," Wallace said in a telephone interview.
Clinton said he "worked hard" to try to kill bin Laden.
"We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody's gotten since," he said.
He told Wallace: "And you got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever, but I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it, but I did try and I did everything I thought I responsibly could."
The interview was taped during Clinton's three-day Global Initiative conference.
On NBC's "Meet the Press," also taped Friday and aired Sunday, Clinton told interviewer Tim Russert that the biggest problem confronting the world today is "the illusion that our differences matter more than our common humanity."
"That's what's driving the terrorism," he said. "It's not just that there's an unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict. Osama Bin Laden and Dr. al-Zawahiri can convince young Sunni Arab men, who have - and some women - who have despairing conditions in their lives, that they get a one-way ticket to heaven in a hurry if they kill a lot of innocent people who don't share their reality."
Later, Wallace tries to make it seem as though Clinton irrationally freaked out on his program, or as he says "Clinton gets Crazed".
Clinton:
- outrightly challenged FOX network and it's republican agenda.
- asks "why George Bush hasn’t been asked about his inactions in the months leading up to the September 11th attacks"
- mentions "the fact that when he did launch operations against bin Laden, Republicans quickly questioned his motives."
- Questions the firing of Richard Clark
Among many other excellent points.
FOX news exposed themselves again as wayyyyyyyy to partisan, and ended up looking foolish.
I question though, how many FOX NEWS viewers got the point, or could at least understand what was going on.
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