President Clinton Bitchslaps Fox News
September 23, 2006 Uncategorized
Click here to read the entire transcript. It’s scheduled to air on Fox tomorrow. Here’s a sample:
WALLACE: When we announced that you were going to be on Fox News Sunday, I got a lot of email from viewers, and I got to say I was surprised most of them wanted me to ask you this question. Why didn’t you do more to put Bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business when you were President? There’s a new book out which I suspect you’ve read called the Looming Tower. And it talks about how the fact that when you pulled troops out of Somalia in 1993, Bin Laden said “I have seen the frailty and the weakness and the cowardice of US troops.” Then there was the bombing of the embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole.
CLINTON: OK..
WALLACE: …may I just finish the question sir. And after the attack, the book says, Bin Laden separated his leaders because he expected an attack and there was no response. I understand that hindsight is 20/20.
CLINTON: No let’s talk about…
WALLACE: …but the question is why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them out of business?
CLINTON: OK, let’s talk about it. I will answer all of those things on the merits but I want to talk about the context of which this arises. I’m being asked this on the FOX network…ABC just had a right wing conservative on the Path to 9/11 falsely claim that it was based on the 9/11 Commission report with three things asserted against me that are directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report. I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say that I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was obsessed with Bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neocons claimed that I was too obsessed with finding Bin Laden when they didn’t have a single meeting about Bin Laden for the nine months after I left office. All the right wingers who now say that I didn’t do enough said that I did too much. Same people.
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CLINTON: What did I do? I worked hard to try and kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since. And if I were still president we’d have more than 20,000 troops there trying to kill him. Now I never criticized President Bush and I don’t think this is useful. But you know we do have a government that thinks Afghanistan is 1/7 as important as Iraq. And you ask me about terror and Al Qaeda with that sort of dismissive theme when all you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror. And you’ve got that little smirk on your face. It looks like you’re so clever…
WALLACE: [Laughs]
CLINTON: I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get Bin Laden. I regret it but I did try. And I did everything I thought I responsibly could. The entire military was against sending special forces into Afghanistan and refueling by helicopter and no one thought we could do it otherwise…We could not get the CIA and the FBI to certify that Al Qaeda was responsible while I was President. Until I left office. And yet I get asked about this all the time and they had three times as much time to get him as I did and no one ever asks them about this. I think that’s strange.
Comments (8)
….smacked like a two-dollar hooker.
Nice job Bill!
Id vote for you all over again!
Can you show me the satire here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9mXTxEQI3A
Seriously, I would like to know what it is Kinky Friedman is satirizing when he suggests, in an interview with a talk show host asking him questions about his candidacy to lead the second largest state in the nation, that an appropriate punishment for sexual predators is to “make them listen to a negro talking to himself.”
Please let us know what he is satirizing. I’m genuinely curious where the satire is.
I thought this thread was about Bill Clinton? Jeeze, if you wan’t to slam Kinky, There are plenty of other threads here about him. (There are thousands of threads about him over at BOR!….They are a little bit obbsessed.)
Ryan,
Wrong thread, hoss.
So funny to watch Big Bill get his panties in a twist, I guess this accusation must hit pretty close to home to spur that kind of reaction.
I think this interview was good, it will remind the American public why we don’t want to see any more of Bill Clinton in the public eye especially in the role as First Lady.
I disagree. I thought Billy Boy schooled that smarmy dickless Fox news bitch. You can’t talk to a former president like that, especially not one of Bill’s gravitas.
Man what is with the conservative invasion of PinkDome? Bunch of Ann Coulter-like trolls here…
Just Me is right. Face it. Chris Wallace asked legitimate questionsand Bill Clinton can’t take criticism. He is no different from other politicians, but if it’s not a complimentary comment about him then it is an attack. He can’t have a decent conversation about what may have been during his presidency. No, he has to attack and try to blame everybodyy but himself.