Bill Clinton FIGHTS BACK! against the Fox-Rove-Bush right-wing MEDIA NARRATIVE..!
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BILL CLINTON SHOWS HOW IT IS DONE:
- DO NOT let the whore media 'host' TALK OVER YOU!
- DO NOT let the whore media host DIVERT your discussion from the intended topic (Clinton's raising billions for vital world charity issues) to provide RIGHT WING TALKING POINTS without FIGHTING BACK to CONTROL the message.
- DO NOT let a LIE go uncontested, undocumented, and unsubtantiated.
- DO NOT let the Republicans who shouted "LEAVE SOMALIA NOW!" and "Clinton's attempts to get bin Laden are a case of 'WAG THE DOG'!" - now turn around and say that those failures or retreats were Bill Clinton's fault in the 9 months that he was out of office.
- DO NOT let the George W. Bush White House, and their cowardly, smear-mob minions, PIN the RESPONSIBILITY for the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rove White Houses' NEGLECT of the Al Qaida TERRORISM THREAT for NINE LONG MONTHS on the Clinton White House!
- DO NOT let the cowardly Bush-Rove-Cheney White House lay the responsibility for THEIR Iraq war INCREASING THE THREAT of TERRORISM to America, at the feet of a president who had the CIA ATTACK bin LADEN on numerous attempts, a president and adminisration that SUCCEEDED in investigating, arresting, prosecuting, and convicting the perpetrators of the first NY World Trade Center towers bombing in 1993; and president and administration who SUCCEEDED in foiling the BOIJINKA plot and millenium bomb plot, and gaining extensive international cooperation in those attempts and successes; take the blame for the FAILED and CORRUPT administration of "the war on terror" by that Bush-Rove-Cheney White House.
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Appearing on FOX 'news' for, he thought, an interview about his $7 billion volunteer campaign to tackle the world's problems, Clinton WAS AMBUSHED by Fox host Chris Wallace, who clearly was out to portray Clinton has having been "WEAK" on combatting terror, and specifically weak at capturing or killing OSAMA bin LADEN when Clinton was President.
Former Pres. Clinton WAS HAVING NONE OF IT. He quickly TURNED THE TABLES on Wallace, and asked Wallace "HOW MANY TIMES HAVE *YOU* ASKED President Bush or the Republican, WHY DID YOU TAKE 8 months in the White House AND DO NOTHING to capture bin Laden or disable his Al Qaida terror group?!!"
THIS FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION is at the very HEART AND SOUL of America's MEDIA NARRATIVE, the NARRATIVE that gets thousands of undecided voters to REJECT Democratic candidates, and instead for right-wing Republican candidates WHOSE POLICIES OFTEN ACTUALLY HARM those voters, such as Republican SUPPORT FOR OUTSOURCING of US industry, which so often leads to LAYOFFS, even of Republican voters who voted for the officials who SUPPORT THAT OUTSOURCING of their own jobs!
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Clinton Takes on Fox News
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/24/clinton-video/
FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News
Today, President Bill Clinton taped an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, which is scheduled to be aired Sunday. He was told the interview would focus on his nonpartisan efforts to raise over $7 billion to combat the world’s biggest problems.
Early in the interview, Wallace attempted to smear Clinton with the same kind of misinformation contained in ABC’s Path to 9/11. Clinton was having none of it.
ThinkProgress has obtained a transcript of the interview. Here are some highlights –
Wallace repeats Path to 9/11 misinformation, Clinton fights back:
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.
Clinton takes on Fox News bias:
WALLACE: Do you think you did enough sir?
CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him.
WALLACE: Right…
CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try and they didn’t…I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke… So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know..
WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir…
CLINTON:…
WALLACE: I asked 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…
WALLACE: We asked…
CLINTON:…
WALLACE: Do you ever watch Fox News Sunday sir?
CLINTON: I don’t believe you ask them that.
WALLACE: We ask plenty of questions of…
CLINTON: You didn’t ask that did you? Tell the truth.
WALLACE: About the USS Cole?
CLINTON: Tell the truth.
WALLACE: I…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 is going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers for supporting my work on climate change. And you came here under false pretenses and said that you’d spend half the time talking about…
WALLACE: [laughs]
CLINTON: You said you’d spend half the time talking about what we did out there to raise $7 billion dollars plus over three days from 215 different commitments. And you don’t care.
Clinton on his priorities and the Bush administration priorities:
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.
BILL CLINTON SHOWS HOW IT IS DONE:
- DO NOT let the whore media 'host' TALK OVER YOU!
- DO NOT let the whore media host DIVERT your discussion from the intended topic (Clinton's raising billions for vital world charity issues) to provide RIGHT WING TALKING POINTS without FIGHTING BACK to CONTROL the message.
- DO NOT let a LIE go uncontested, undocumented, and unsubtantiated.
- DO NOT let the Republicans who shouted "LEAVE SOMALIA NOW!" and "Clinton's attempts to get bin Laden are a case of 'WAG THE DOG'!" - now turn around and say that those failures or retreats were Bill Clinton's fault in the 9 months that he was out of office.
- DO NOT let the George W. Bush White House, and their cowardly, smear-mob minions, PIN the RESPONSIBILITY for the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rove White Houses' NEGLECT of the Al Qaida TERRORISM THREAT for NINE LONG MONTHS on the Clinton White House!
- DO NOT let the cowardly Bush-Rove-Cheney White House lay the responsibility for THEIR Iraq war INCREASING THE THREAT of TERRORISM to America, at the feet of a president who had the CIA ATTACK bin LADEN on numerous attempts, a president and adminisration that SUCCEEDED in investigating, arresting, prosecuting, and convicting the perpetrators of the first NY World Trade Center towers bombing in 1993; and president and administration who SUCCEEDED in foiling the BOIJINKA plot and millenium bomb plot, and gaining extensive international cooperation in those attempts and successes; take the blame for the FAILED and CORRUPT administration of "the war on terror" by that Bush-Rove-Cheney White House.
---------------------------------
Appearing on FOX 'news' for, he thought, an interview about his $7 billion volunteer campaign to tackle the world's problems, Clinton WAS AMBUSHED by Fox host Chris Wallace, who clearly was out to portray Clinton has having been "WEAK" on combatting terror, and specifically weak at capturing or killing OSAMA bin LADEN when Clinton was President.
Former Pres. Clinton WAS HAVING NONE OF IT. He quickly TURNED THE TABLES on Wallace, and asked Wallace "HOW MANY TIMES HAVE *YOU* ASKED President Bush or the Republican, WHY DID YOU TAKE 8 months in the White House AND DO NOTHING to capture bin Laden or disable his Al Qaida terror group?!!"
THIS FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION is at the very HEART AND SOUL of America's MEDIA NARRATIVE, the NARRATIVE that gets thousands of undecided voters to REJECT Democratic candidates, and instead for right-wing Republican candidates WHOSE POLICIES OFTEN ACTUALLY HARM those voters, such as Republican SUPPORT FOR OUTSOURCING of US industry, which so often leads to LAYOFFS, even of Republican voters who voted for the officials who SUPPORT THAT OUTSOURCING of their own jobs!
==============================
Clinton Takes on Fox News
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/24/clinton-video/
FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News
Today, President Bill Clinton taped an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, which is scheduled to be aired Sunday. He was told the interview would focus on his nonpartisan efforts to raise over $7 billion to combat the world’s biggest problems.
Early in the interview, Wallace attempted to smear Clinton with the same kind of misinformation contained in ABC’s Path to 9/11. Clinton was having none of it.
ThinkProgress has obtained a transcript of the interview. Here are some highlights –
Wallace repeats Path to 9/11 misinformation, Clinton fights back:
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.
Clinton takes on Fox News bias:
WALLACE: Do you think you did enough sir?
CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him.
WALLACE: Right…
CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try and they didn’t…I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke… So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know..
WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir…
CLINTON:…
WALLACE: I asked 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…
WALLACE: We asked…
CLINTON:…
WALLACE: Do you ever watch Fox News Sunday sir?
CLINTON: I don’t believe you ask them that.
WALLACE: We ask plenty of questions of…
CLINTON: You didn’t ask that did you? Tell the truth.
WALLACE: About the USS Cole?
CLINTON: Tell the truth.
WALLACE: I…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 is going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers for supporting my work on climate change. And you came here under false pretenses and said that you’d spend half the time talking about…
WALLACE: [laughs]
CLINTON: You said you’d spend half the time talking about what we did out there to raise $7 billion dollars plus over three days from 215 different commitments. And you don’t care.
Clinton on his priorities and the Bush administration priorities:
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.
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