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i watched part of the clinton abc special last night, and happened to catch the scolding act.. i don't buy it. i think it was pre-planned for a reason. now Jennings looks fair and balanced to the FOX watchers (he thinks). Jennings worships clinton and has a huge ego... no way did this happen spontaneously.. and if it had - no way would Jennings let some some one treat him that way. it was for the masses.. the useful idiots. a ploy. i just don't buy their little act. it also let Clinton rant without Jennings looking culpable. it was all ..bs.

great post Mia..

I dunno. I imagine clinton would have chosen a premise a bit more benign.

Jennings drove a stake through clinton's newly minted legacy if not his newly plumbed heart. (But it was nothing compared to what Dimbleby of the BBC did to clinton. check out the 5 flashmovies....)

I just watched the entire aired interview and I think you are correct; it does appear to have been staged. Many of the obvious followups, if ever asked by Jennings, never made it to the final edited version.

The interview allowed clinton to summarize the library's clinton revision, the newly unveiled veiled clinton legacy, if you will, even as it allowed Jennings to pose as a real journalist by giving him the opportunity to ask the questions central to the clinton library conceit.... (A real journalist would have demanded the answers.)

It's unclear to me, however, whether Jennings probed a bit more deeply on the moral authority-legacy-presidential poll thing than he was supposed to....

I will be deconstructing the ABC-Jennings interview a la BBC-Dimbleby.

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