Clinton: Unplugged and Unhinged
On Fox News Sunday, Bill Clinton gave his first interview to the Fox News Channel. At first, the overall impression is that he's incredibly defensive and sensitive about his manifold failures in the war on terror -- to the point where it seems obvious that he knows that he messed it up. Everybody's at fault except good ole Slick Willy.
As Ace of Spades points out, President Clinton simply lies. But we're used to that, of course, after eight long years. What was so shocking was Clinton's demeanor and the nature of his assertions.
Through the course of the interview, it became clear that former President Clinton is -- perhaps "crazy" is too strong a word -- but definitely unhinged and somewhat paranoid when it comes to his views on the media . . . ironic, given that the lefties have tried to portray President Bush as someone who's unwilling to apologize, reluctant to admit fault and living in a bubble.
Below is a sample of some of the weirder stuff. First, thought, it's worth noting that the question that set off President Clinton's diatribe was nothing more than the following:
Why didn't you do more to put bin Laden and Al Qaeda out of business when you were President? . . . why didn't you do more to connect the dots and put them out of business?
Here are portions of Clinton's rant:
I'm being asked this on the Fox Network. ABC just had a right wing, conservative running their little "Pathway to 9/11." . . . All the right wingers who now say I didn't do enough said I did too much. Same people. They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day, after we were involved in Black Hawk down and I refused to do it and stayed six months and had an orderly transfer to the United Nations.
You did Fox's bidding on this show. You did your nice little conservative hit job on me.
You set this meeting up because you're going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because Rupert Murdoch's supporting my work on climate change, and you came here under false pretenses and said that you'd spend half the time talking about what we did out there . . . and you don't care. (This is after only the one question set forth above).
[After Chris Wallace noted that his one question had sent Clinton "on a tear"]: It set me off on a tear because you didn't formulate it in an honest way and because you people ask me quesitons that you don't ask the other side. . . . You falsely accused me of giving aid and comfort to bin Laden . . .
You've got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever, but 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. (He then goes on to blame the military for being reluctant to go into Afghanistan, etc.)
I always get these clever little political deals where they ask me one set of questions and other guys another set. It always comes from one source.
Judging from this inteview, President Clinton is not a healthy man. Hillary must be incredibly dismayed by his comments and deportment, because it's clear that someone so isolated from reality, quick to anger, and paranoid has no business being in The White House, even as First Gentleman.
President Bush has received infinitely more criticism on these topics than Clinton ever dreamed of. Can you imagine the outcry had he behaved in such a weird and borderline manner?
As Ace of Spades points out, President Clinton simply lies. But we're used to that, of course, after eight long years. What was so shocking was Clinton's demeanor and the nature of his assertions.
Through the course of the interview, it became clear that former President Clinton is -- perhaps "crazy" is too strong a word -- but definitely unhinged and somewhat paranoid when it comes to his views on the media . . . ironic, given that the lefties have tried to portray President Bush as someone who's unwilling to apologize, reluctant to admit fault and living in a bubble.
Below is a sample of some of the weirder stuff. First, thought, it's worth noting that the question that set off President Clinton's diatribe was nothing more than the following:
Why didn't you do more to put bin Laden and Al Qaeda out of business when you were President? . . . why didn't you do more to connect the dots and put them out of business?
Here are portions of Clinton's rant:
I'm being asked this on the Fox Network. ABC just had a right wing, conservative running their little "Pathway to 9/11." . . . All the right wingers who now say I didn't do enough said I did too much. Same people. They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day, after we were involved in Black Hawk down and I refused to do it and stayed six months and had an orderly transfer to the United Nations.
You did Fox's bidding on this show. You did your nice little conservative hit job on me.
You set this meeting up because you're going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because Rupert Murdoch's supporting my work on climate change, and you came here under false pretenses and said that you'd spend half the time talking about what we did out there . . . and you don't care. (This is after only the one question set forth above).
[After Chris Wallace noted that his one question had sent Clinton "on a tear"]: It set me off on a tear because you didn't formulate it in an honest way and because you people ask me quesitons that you don't ask the other side. . . . You falsely accused me of giving aid and comfort to bin Laden . . .
You've got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever, but 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. (He then goes on to blame the military for being reluctant to go into Afghanistan, etc.)
I always get these clever little political deals where they ask me one set of questions and other guys another set. It always comes from one source.
Judging from this inteview, President Clinton is not a healthy man. Hillary must be incredibly dismayed by his comments and deportment, because it's clear that someone so isolated from reality, quick to anger, and paranoid has no business being in The White House, even as First Gentleman.
President Bush has received infinitely more criticism on these topics than Clinton ever dreamed of. Can you imagine the outcry had he behaved in such a weird and borderline manner?
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:17 AM
1 Comments:
"How about Bush calling the American soldiers' ultimate sacrifce in Iraq "just a comma"."
The stupidity continues. How many conflicts in our nation's history stand out as exclamation points? And this is only since the 1700's. How about the Spanish/American war? American lives were sacrificed there, right? Does that, from the perspective of history, look more like an exclamation point, or a comma? My goodness. eddy just can't do enough to spin the slightest fart or belch against Bush. Talk about a lunatic. You want wacko, Carol? He posts stupid comments on your blog daily. His name is eddy-boy.
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