I know that everyone is commenting on Chris Wallace's interview with Bill Clinton and someone else may have already said this, but it seemed odd to me that Clinton refers to the military battle in Somalia by the movie term "Blackhawk Down." I think the man is obsessed with "image over substance." He longs to be in Camelot.
And it didn't take much scratching on Clinton's veneer to get him to spout off his "vast, right-wing conspiracy" theory. He knows the REAL reason that they invited him on the program. He knows Wallace's REAL motive for asking the question about getting bin Laden. He calls Wallace out for a "little smirk." He KNOWS that "FoxNews" (whomever and whatever that is supposed to include) has never asked difficult 9/11-related questions of Republicans. What a thin skin.
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Thin skin? Perhaps, but he was right about Fox News and Chris Wallace. They have gold plated RNC Kneepads that they break out whenever they interview a high ranking Republican. Even if they had asked a Republican a similar question, they never would've spent 2 minutes framing the question like Wallace did.
Oh well, I'm sure there would have been criticism if he had "sprung" the question in the middle of discussing Clinton's Foundation.
But "Gold-plated RNC kneepads"? (Pleasant metaphor, Sean, but not totally out of Left field given the context). Even if it's true, we're entitled to at least one friendly network, aren't we, seeing as the Dems have 4 major networks (I'm counting PBS/NPR) and various cable news networks carrying your water? It's probably good for Clinton to enjoy the same treatment that (Conservative) Republicans receive on y'all's networks.
Hillary was correct, there was a vast, right-wing conspiracy against the Clintons. It was called the Arkansas Project and was funded by Richard Scaife and others. Do a little research, eh?
Course, if you think the major media networks are beholden to the Democrats, you've obviously got some issues with reality. News flash - the major media networks are beholden to... the megacorporations that own them. The bias that will lend to their news reporting and editorials is left as an exercise to the reader.
I know all about the Arkansas Project--I even read about it first-hand at the time as a subscriber to The Weekly Standard. But I don't recall if Monica Lewinsky was part of the project . . . can you do some research on that and get back to me?
But I don't think I said "beholden"--I said "friendly" and I think you are out of touch with reality if you would assert that there is not a Democrat/Liberal slant to the news reporting at the networks referenced. Sure, that bias bothers me, but not nearly as much as the indignation because FoxNews sometimes approaches certain issues from the other perspective. If nothing else, FoxNews has forced CNN et al to hire some Conservatives and at least occasionally present the "other" side to arguments.
Well said, Ned.
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