Worth Watching
Porcupine enjoys letting people speak for themselves, and this video of former President Clinton is an exceptionally instructive window into the gentleman's thinking. Click on the arrow to watch the film:
Porcupine will only add this to the man's own words. He spends most of his time complaining about the source of the question, trying to make it appear sinister. Has he really been booked onto so many television talk shows to discuss his Clinton Global Initiative (characteristic modesty, there) that he forgot he was on Fox News? He seems annoyed that he is there. Did he perhaps confuse Chris Wallace with his father, and expect only puffball questions? He does not answer the questions 'on its merits' as he says he will. He repeatedly cites Richard Clark's book - what are his own observations? His portrait of FBI/CIA disjunction is dead on, and he is correct that nobody knew about Bin Laden in 1993. But Chris Wallace is equally accurate to ask why more attention was not paid in 1996 and 1998. Clinton's repeated condemnation of 'you people', and his putting words into the mouth of his interviewer which stem from his own bias is only kerosene upon our national disputes.
Porcupine will only add this to the man's own words. He spends most of his time complaining about the source of the question, trying to make it appear sinister. Has he really been booked onto so many television talk shows to discuss his Clinton Global Initiative (characteristic modesty, there) that he forgot he was on Fox News? He seems annoyed that he is there. Did he perhaps confuse Chris Wallace with his father, and expect only puffball questions? He does not answer the questions 'on its merits' as he says he will. He repeatedly cites Richard Clark's book - what are his own observations? His portrait of FBI/CIA disjunction is dead on, and he is correct that nobody knew about Bin Laden in 1993. But Chris Wallace is equally accurate to ask why more attention was not paid in 1996 and 1998. Clinton's repeated condemnation of 'you people', and his putting words into the mouth of his interviewer which stem from his own bias is only kerosene upon our national disputes.
posted by Peter Porcupine at 12:26 PM
4 Comments:
Why did Bill even agree to go on Fox News. It just sounds like he is angry at Wallace for bringing it up, The Path to 9/11 was headline news for a while there. Clinton is so slick, he says in that interview "Why are you going after me?" and toward the end he says "I made mistakes." Wow..there really are no words. Sure we didn't know how Bin Laden was going to do it but we knew his network was getting larger after Kenya, the Cole, and the flights from the Philippines.
touche'
Clinton doesn't just accidently lose his temper.
There was no spontaneity to it, although, that is how it was spun: stir up the anger in the Democrat base, right wing media conspiracy, Fox news is out to get me and therefore out to get *you*.
Clinton lost the Senate and House for the Democrats and he's trying to get it back.
"his own bias is only kerosene upon our national disputes" -- who raised the question in the first place? Who's busily rewriting history to place blame instead of actually accomplishing anything?
Clinton is no longer president -- as such, questions on current policy issues shouldn't be rasied to him.
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