Monday, September 25, 2006

Fox Screwing Clinton

Well, that's not much of a news headline (since there's no news there) but it does get at the creative editing done by Fox to make Clinton look bad.

Eat The Press | "Nice Little Conservative Hit Job": And Also, Nice Little Conservative Clip Job | The Huffington Post: ". . .As for the allegation that this was a 'conservative hit job' — Wallace has adopted a wide-eyed 'don't look at me' position, claiming that 'All I did was ask him a question' and that he was 'I was utterly surprised by the tidal wave of details--emotion--and political attacks that followed.' In fact, Wallace's so-called 'non-confrontational question' was multipart, not only asking 'Why didn't you do more to put bin Laden and Al Qaida out of business when you were president?' but also bringing up Somalia in 1993, the bombings of U.S. African embassies and the U.S.S. Cole, and brought up allegations raised by the book The Looming Tower, which is highly critical of Clinton in the pre-9/11 years. So it actually was very much a question that required breaking out element by element to properly answer, which is what Clinton said when he heard it ('Now, I will answer all those things on the merits, but first I want to talk about the context in which this arises'). As the conversation proceeded, Wallace several times tried to interject and interrupt, with Clinton responding like so: 'You brought this up, so you'll get an answer. . .' "

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