Comments on: Should I or shouldn’t I… http://www.seanpaune.com/2006/09/27/should-i-or-shouldnt-i/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:21:01 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sean P Aune http://www.seanpaune.com/2006/09/27/should-i-or-shouldnt-i/comment-page-1/#comment-11461 Sean P Aune Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:23:24 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=798#comment-11461 Oh, ok, 1 time out of 43, I take back everything I said about Wallace:-p Clinton was just a big old meaniehead talking to him like that. (and no, I'm not attacking you Luis, I'm attacking all the defenders) It was still a disaster of an interview, as most interviews are nowadays. Oh, ok, 1 time out of 43, I take back everything I said about Wallace:-p Clinton was just a big old meaniehead talking to him like that. (and no, I’m not attacking you Luis, I’m attacking all the defenders) It was still a disaster of an interview, as most interviews are nowadays.

]]> By: Luis http://www.seanpaune.com/2006/09/27/should-i-or-shouldnt-i/comment-page-1/#comment-11460 Luis Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:50:55 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=798#comment-11460 Actually, there was one interview--which right-wingers are now blowing up as if it were a huge thing--in March 2004, in which Wallace went as far as to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115436,00.html" rel="nofollow">say to Rumsfeld</a>, "What do you make of his basic charge that, pre-9/11, that this government, the Bush administration, largely ignored the threat from Al Qaeda?" and "Mr. Secretary, it sure sounds like fighting terrorism was not a top priority." But out of 43 interviews with senior Bush officials between 9/11 and the present, that's as hard-hitting as he ever got. In twenty interviews before and a dozen after, he did not go hardball like that--but in his very first with Clinton, he lobs that particular spitball, dripping with political innuendo at a time when the issue has been so baldy distorted by the right wing. As usual, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200609240002" rel="nofollow">Media Matters</a> covers it well. Actually, there was one interview–which right-wingers are now blowing up as if it were a huge thing–in March 2004, in which Wallace went as far as to say to Rumsfeld, “What do you make of his basic charge that, pre-9/11, that this government, the Bush administration, largely ignored the threat from Al Qaeda?” and “Mr. Secretary, it sure sounds like fighting terrorism was not a top priority.” But out of 43 interviews with senior Bush officials between 9/11 and the present, that’s as hard-hitting as he ever got. In twenty interviews before and a dozen after, he did not go hardball like that–but in his very first with Clinton, he lobs that particular spitball, dripping with political innuendo at a time when the issue has been so baldy distorted by the right wing.

As usual, Media Matters covers it well.

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