Why Clinton Blew His Top: FNC's Wallace Only Interviewer to Ask About Pre-9/11 Failures

NewsBusters ^ | September 24, 2006 | Rich Noyes

[george76]

By now, nearly everybody who cares has probably seen former President Bill Clinton's -- let's say 'animated' -- response to 'Fox News Sunday' host Chris Wallace's questions about his administration's failed efforts to demolish al-Qaeda before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

But Wallace himself hit on the key media bias question ...

Trying to explain Clinton's hot reaction, Wallace said he read the transcripts of the ex-President's other media appearances in the last few days -- on NBC's 'Meet the Press,' CNN's 'Larry King Live,' FNC's 'On the Record with Greta van Susteren,' among other programs.

Wallace said he was "astonished" that none of the others even bothered to raise the terrorism question with Clinton, particularly with his team's attacks on ABC's "Path to 9/11" docu-drama.

Clinton sounded like a left-wing press critics with his repeated jibes at Fox as a "conservative" or "right-wing" outfit.

But what, besides liberal bias, explains the other journalists' total lack of interest in even asking a single question about Clinton's inadequate terror response?

[JCEccles]

I haven't seen Bill Clinton so PO'd since he glared straight into the camera and denied having sex with "that woman."

[onedoug]

You're right. I should have said, "a real failure..."

[Salvation]

**But Wallace himself hit on the key media bias question ... **

So true, and the media still doesn't want to go there.

My opinion is that all of our discussion here is a short one -- Clinton made a fool of himself today. Period.

[John Lenin]

The Cole bombing

Blozo did nothing

[MOgirl]

Hello,

Good point, he gambled and lost....yet again (...but, but, at least I tried, I failed, but I tried...). Gag me.
Glad to be here, MOgirl

[george76]

Juanita Broddrick did not like the taste either.

" Chris Wallace just got a small taste of how Juanita Broddrick felt. "

[zeugma]

I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has put together a body count file similar to the one you linked to for Bush. I haven't seen or heard of one. You'd think that the leftist loonies could come up with something by now.

[george76]

Thanks.

"John Carlin (who just happened to be the democRAT former Governor of Kansas ...) "

I got busy elsewhere.

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" does Clinton need to grab each and every out-of-work, down-on-his-luck former failure around the country ? "

Yes.

[george76]

I bet that many KOS DUmmies lurk here.

They even sometimes try to troll here.

"Methinks ol BJ lurks around here and is getting a bit upset with the Truth getting out.

His Legacy is hard to hide. "

[george76]

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"Al qaeda grew while Monica blew"

[george76]

"...the even bigger problem is that no one EVER asks WHY the wall was created in the first place..

The answer, of course, is that it was created to protect clinton from investigation of his Chinese money laundering.

clinton is FAR more responsible for our failure to detect 9/11 than is reported...."

[ladyinred]

The Clinton's have been totally sheltered by the media during their entire reign of terror upon the US. None dare ask them real questions, therefore this must have been a shock for Bubba. So what does he do when pressed? He gets furious like the spoiled mama's boy he is, and lies.

[flaglady47]

"Wallace is anything but a conservative. Maybe Wallace will begin rethinking the sanity of the Left."

You know, you don't know what you are talking about. Chris Wallace is Mike Wallace's biological son; however, Mike and Chris's mother got divorced, and Chris's stepfather was a well-to-do Republican, and it is the stepfather than raised Chris, not his left-wing father Mike Wallace. So perhaps it is you who have to rethink your viewpoint.

[GraceCoolidge]

I couldn't believe it when Clinton was telling Chris Wallace, "tell the truth, tell the truth." Geez, can you imagine him saying that to anybody else? "No shame" doesn't begin to cover it. Wouldn't it have been great if Chris Wallace had responded to his "tell the truth," by saying "maybe you should try it sometime"!

[george76]

Bubba knows that his legacy is next to Jimmah' in the ash heap of history.

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Yours : I haven't seen Bill Clinton so PO'd since he glared straight into the camera and denied having sex with "that woman."

[george76]

" Clinton made a fool of himself today..."

...again.

[george76]

 

[Howlin]

I hope that this puts to rest any charges of bias against Wallace by some of the folks out there in Freeper Land.

I admit I was wrong about Wallace and this interview; I assumed he was "granted" the interview by Clinton because Chris was one of the few reporters who thought that ABC movie should be pulled.

Now I'm thinking Clinton picked him and this was all concocted.

[Kellykoop]

Ping and bookmark

[Howlin]

Great point.