EVERYTHING Bill Clinton does is totally calculated - EVERYTHING.
Do not trust this show of anger - it was done for some purpose.
EVERYTHING Bill Clinton does is totally calculated - EVERYTHING !
He got caught in this way at Ron Brown's funeral, too.
He'll try to spin it later and lie his way out, but still, the camera itself does not lie.
The US populace witnessed the breakdown of it's former President over a very, very serious issue.
They are in total damage control this morning. It will only be a few hours before Carville and others are brought out of retirement and given consulting job projects on this one, in order to refloat the sinking ship fast.
I suggested this yesterday :
The one thing Clinton did accomplish is to divert attention away from the madmen Imadarnnutjob and Chavez and how the Democrats agree with them on most issues of foreign policy, and how worthless the UN is.
This may have been his purpose for blowing up.
EVERYTHING that Slick does, Slick does for one reason and ONE REASON ONLY--
his very own personal self-aggrandizement/satifaction.
EVERYTHING he does, or has ever done, is only to further that goal. Period.
Do not trust this show of anger - it was done for some purpose.
You, sir, are correct.
The point of the calculated "outrage" was to reinforce the idea that FoxNews is not "fair and balanced" but is a right-wing partisan player masquerading as a news organization.
Note for example, the personal reference Clinton made to Rupert Murdoch. Also, he repeated at least a couple of times the accusation that FoxNews does not ask similar "tough questions" of the Bush administration.
But in fact, the questions asked by Chris Wallace were not really "tough" at all. Clinton has been asked much more pointed and heavily spun questions by journalists from other networks.
Furthermore, practiced liars like Clinton will often use something to distract from the substance of their answers - occasionally, in the case of Clinton, affected outrage. The story becomes not a point-by-point debate of Richard Clarke's assertions and what the Clinton administration did or did not do on terror, but the spectacle of the former president "showing anger" and the question of whether FoxNews was "caught in the act" of perpetrating a partisan hit on Clinton.
Even the "anger" at the staffers afterward for having booked the Wallace interview was calculated.
Notice that at the very top of the Rat pyramid, Clinton, Hillary, and Kennedy NEVER go on FoxNews for interviews, and people like Kerry do so extremely rarely.
The boycott of FoxNews, the spin by Clinton as to Rupert Murdoch and the accusation that FoxNews does not ask tough questions of Bush administration figures, the pretension by Clinton that what Wallace asked was unfair or even unusual, the "outrage" at the staffers for having booked him at all, was all intended to make the "story" of this interview the "bias" of FoxNews and not the substance of what the Clinton administration did to fight terror.
Had Clinton NOT gotten outraged, then FoxNews would even have gained a slight bit of credibility on the left, which vilifies FoxNews, by the act of Clinton taking them seriously.
Clinton's act may have backfired on him, but not with the Left and probably not with the Middle, who may actually give some credence to his accusations of FoxNews bias.