Clinton on Fox = Wallace's a** on a plate

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 8:18 AM on September 25, 2006.

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Part 1 is HERE, though it's not a prerequisite. It's enough to say that Clinton begins the removal of Chris Wallace's ass which he completes in the clip, right. The juicy parts are in the transcript below...

So you did Fox’s bidding on this show. You did your nice little conservative hit job on me. What I want to know is…

WALLACE: Well, wait a minute, sir.

CLINTON: No, wait. No, no…

WALLACE: I want to ask a question. You don’t think that’s a legitimate question?

CLINTON: It was a perfectly legitimate question, but I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked this question of.

I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked, Why didn’t you do anything about the Cole?

I want to know how many you asked, Why did you fire Dick Clarke?

I want to know how many people you asked…

WALLACE: We asked — we asked…

CLINTON: I don’t…

WALLACE: Do you ever watch Fox News Sunday, sir?

CLINTON: I don’t believe you asked them that.

WALLACE: We ask plenty of questions of…

CLINTON: You didn’t ask that, did you? Tell the truth, Chris.

WALLACE: About the USS Cole?

CLINTON: Tell the truth, Chris.

WALLACE: With Iraq and Afghanistan, there’s plenty of stuff to ask.

CLINTON: Did you ever ask that?

You set this meeting up because you were going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because Rupert Murdoch’s supporting my work on climate change.

And you came here under false pretenses and said that you’d spend half the time talking about — you said you’d spend half the time talking about what we did out there to raise $7-billion-plus in three days from 215 different commitments. And you don’t care.

WALLACE: But, President Clinton, if you look at the questions here, you’ll see half the questions are about that. I didn’t think this was going to set you off on such a tear.

CLINTON: You launched it — it set me off on a tear because you didn’t formulate it in an honest way and because you people ask me questions you don’t ask the other side.

Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.

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Game, Set, Match [Report this comment] Posted by: NoPCZone on Sep 25, 2006 9:44 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Clinton won the smack-down. I wonder what the average Faux Newz viewer that looks nowhere else thought of that. Note to Chris Wallace: Just because your name is Wallace doesn't mean you have the cred you daddy does. He earned it. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] He's the man [Report this comment] Posted by: Fishbone Soldier on Sep 25, 2006 10:33 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Can anyone imagine how John Kerry would have handled the same situation? This is a Democrat with a backbone. Maybe some others can follow this example. Damn. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Setting the Record Straight [Report this comment] Posted by: BlackStar on Sep 25, 2006 1:45 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I, for one, am grateful to Chris Walllace for giving President Clinton an opportunity to set the record straight. Wallace should have asked about Rwanda if he really wanted to put make Clinton ill at ease. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] *BUT!! Repubs Won't Talk About --Our Lost War On Values [Report this comment] Posted by: NeoCogito on Sep 25, 2006 6:31 PM Current rating: Not yet rated** [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Listenin to all the macho nonsense on the web in re the Chris Wallace interview is a problem. Clinton is after all the beneficiary of a behemoth, corporate-funded toy chest and as a a result the most powerful man in the U.S-- that kind of inordinate power is intimidating in itself. He can and has NEVER hesitated to ruin many who wouldn't genuflect; too many for my comfort zone. Maybe it's no wonder the U.S. is goin down the tubes. Several years ago when Peter Jennings asked a question that dared to touch on the Clinton's REAL history Bill also got indignant and way over-the-top. He reprimanded Jennings, too, with a very gutteral: "You Really Don't Want To Go There, Do You"? That he is ruthless and intimidating--are probably not the virtues we ought to look for! in a president. There were far too many very heavy career-ending casualties of the Clinton's rise to power for my comfort zone. Is "The Terminator" Our Kind Of President?? Repubs are right, but for the wrong reasons; ultimately Clinton has to own! 9/11 --you just can't argue with the timeline. Clinton's ruthless/lawless version of NAFTA, released globally and in a hurry while we obsessed with Monica-- lit a fire under the insurgency. 9/11 was organized & orchestrated in the 90's. The Clinton admin. thought the deaths of all those Iraqi kids, one-half million under 5 years old was "worth it," --and 9/11? Repubs aren't talking about THAT because NAFTA, written into law by Clinton was THE* top REPUBLICAN priority. (So-Called) Democratic conservatives are just as ugly, and HAVE DONE MUCH MORE DAMAGE WORKING WITHIN the democratic party posing as centrists than Nixon, Reagan, Bush. Not a liberal?? shucks!, we could live with that BUT!! if you follow the Clintons history since the 80's and their founding of the DLC (with Lieberman-- who they've abandoned now that he's become a liability) --they are NOT DEMOCRATS. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Faux Newz [Report this comment] Posted by: NoPCZone on Sep 25, 2006 7:00 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] NewsCorp has pulled this video off of YouTube. I'm surprised it's still here. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Meaningless [Report this comment] Posted by: BobbyGreyFriar on Sep 25, 2006 9:16 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Ignoring rhetoric, if one looks at Clinton's policy in practice -- the effects it had on us and people of other countries -- it is clear that he is as much a criminal as Bush (et al). Who cares if embarassed Fox News? The serious issues are still being ignored. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Cunning like a Fox [Report this comment] Posted by: pingoo on Sep 26, 2006 5:21 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] While it is true that Fox and the News Corporation pulled the vido off youtube - it can still be found in many many places! Google video being one of them. This just demonstrates that Fox News is: 1. Politically biased, 2.More bothered about the image of the company and those political entities they support (and are supported by) 3. A very poor source of news because even they are ashamed of their own footage 4. Undeniably deluded if they think that pulling the vido off one website would mean that no one can see it again. Not that I didn't know all this before any of this happened. The only way Fox News can be trusted is if you want to get a perspective that is strictly that of a right wing origin with no space for discussion or debate on conservative policies and actions throughout the past 5-10 years. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Cunning like a Fox Posted by: Marvin R

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