(dfu's post on the thread)Bill Clinton used the OKC bombing to save his presidency. He then concentrated on the dreaded right wing militias instead of the real culprits --- the Islamofascists who were allowed to grow until they took down the Twin Towers.
My response...
****** The week after OKC, I happened to be on the East Coast, chaperoning 38 high school foreign exchange students. On Tuesday morning of that week, while in NYC, we went to the NBC Studios in hope of getting some face time for our organization on the Today show.
While standing on the streetcorner, a couple of NBC pages were out soliciting the crowd with "free tickets" to a television show. Our group accepted the offer and were were in the studio audience of the Phil Donohue Show.
Donohue had received his talking points from the Clinton White House. The entire show was a hit piece against the right wing militia groups. They had satelite hook-ups to some reps of a Michigan Militia group. That developed into a gun-grabbing diatribe by Donohue.
Just a little tidbit from my perspective of events following the assault on OKC. We did, btw, have a student in our group who was living in OKC. She really didn't have much to say on the subject.
I was watching "30 Days" last night, were the guy lives like a Muslim for 30 days. During the show, one of the real Muslims pointed out how it was the Christian, McVeigh who brought down the OKC building...and nobody said anything bad about Christians.
Aside from the fact that I don't even know if McVeigh was a practicing Christian, this Muslim obviously missed the furor that followed, as militia groups, right-wingers and talk-radio were all targeted...by no less than the President of the US. If Bush...or anyone, had made these same accusations that Clinton made, the lawsuits would've been flying. These people see only what they want to see.