Posted on 09/24/2006 9:03:18 AM PDT by technomage
After reading parts of the FoxNews Sunday transcript of the interview between Wallace and Clinton, something stuck out to me.
Clinton keeps claiming that 'right wing conservatives' were constantly complaining that he was too obsessed with bin Laden. I have mentioned previous that I have no memories of that happening. What I do remember is conservatives in general complaining about his obsession with Monica.
But, getting back to that claim that conservatives were complaining that Clinton was too obsessed with bin Laden.
After watching the rant, oops, interview, Clinton slipped up. He showed his cards by uttering three little words: wag the dog.
It was like a light bulb going off in my head.
Now it made sense. Clinton is once again 'mixing' historical events to conform to what he wants the world to remember.
Conservatives did use the wag the dog reference numerous times, not in reference to bin Laden, but in reference to Clinton's massive bombardment of Serbia, which had absolutely nothing to do with bin Laden.
Clinton, in the interview basically says, and I paraphrase:
conservatives were complaining that I was obsessed with bin Laden, you know the wag the dog references.
THAT is the statement that shows that either Clinton is having memory problems and mixing up events, or is lying.
All the wag the dog references in the 90's had nothing to do with bin Laden, but had everything to do with Serbia and Milosevic, as far as my meager memory serves. I may be wrong, and I may be unaware of statements to the contrary but as far as I can remember, all those references were regarding Milosevic and Serbia.
Claiming that 'right wing conservatives' were complaining that Clinton was obsessed with bin Laden is an outright lie. But to try and prove it by using the wag the dog reference was a stupid move on his part and illuminated his lack of facts to back it up. And in my view, invalidated the rest of the rant, er interview.
Excellent memory, and strange that nobody on the show recalled that. Perhaps you should e-mail Chris Wallace and point it out.
I vote for the "is lying" part. He's doing his best to confuse the public about the REAL history of what went on. Trying to preserve what little legacy he's got left!
Clinton did the same thing during the Wallace interview.
I think it was the author/ socialite Dorothy Parker who made this remark--a propot of a person in the entertainment biz--that surely applies to BJC: "Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie, including 'a' and 'the.'"
I'd like to see film footage where an actual Conservative ranted about this I don't think i have ever seen ANY Conservative claim this ! I know i heard plenty of them including myself scream about him being a lieing bastard about many things but bin laden was never one of them at least about him obsessing he used bin laden for excuses but never because he was chasing him but to cover up him chasing a skirt !
Wag the Dog arose because of the fact that Clinton bombed the aspirin factory the night before scheduled impeachment vote. The other bombing was in response Iraq's attempt on Geo. H.W. Bush's life when B41 was in Kuwait for a victory lap.
A lot of things, including not wearing long enough socks.
You forgot your "/sarc" tag...
GREAT idea!
Are these guys delusional or liars? Liars don't really believe what they say but delusional people truely believe their distortions.
Clinton, Clarke, Gore, Kerry, Dean and others are approaching a delusional state. They are sounding a lot like David Koresh and Jim Jones in their paranoia of the right.
LOL! That is too funny!
I don't know, but I don't like to see any of them in power.
I think if you do some Googling around you'll find the aspirin factory in Sudan and the two tents and a camel taken out in Afghanistan were also part and parcel of "wagging the dog".
Please prefer not to bring that piece of scum into the conservation by using Pat Buchanan's name.
Why people listen to Buchanan is a complete mystery to me.
Anti America and, anti Israel seems to be all he wants too talk about lately.
Hard for me to believe he was once part of the GOP speech writers.
No you are absolutely correct. I too recall that the original Wag the Dog was the Predator in Chief’s desire to deflect the Monica - Broderick – Willey – Jones – Foster – White Water scandals to name just a few (did I miss any?) by bombing Serbia and taking the media’s attention away from his scandal riddle administration and personally deviant ways by attacking a country who’s affairs and were not in our national interests but would replace his problems and tonight’s big story.
Bin Laden wasn’t even a household name at the time.
This is just Bill’s sorry attempt to reinvent history.
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