The blogosphere is abuzz with the interview Chris Wallace of Fox News conducted with former President Bill Clinton. In the interview, Wallace asks Clinton about his administration’s hunt for Bin Laden. It it widely accepted among the frothing everything-Bush-does-is-an-act-of-the-messiah right wing crowd that Clinton didn’t do enough to get Bin Laden before he ascended to his current right-wing pre-election bogeyman status.
The problem with that assumption is that it is an outright lie. Since lying about Clinton gets you a pat on the back at Fox, Wallace decided to bring the lie to Clinton himself, not expecting an intellectual ass-kicking that shows us all what it is like when a democrat puts a wrench in the right-wing spin machine and the whole thing explodes.
The video is something everyone should see. It reminds you of what a true american patriot Clinton is. It is the work of someone who is intelligent, coherent, and truthful about his failures as president. It makes me miss 1996. Most of all, it is the indictment of the Bush administration’s pre-9/11 terror policy (or complete lack there of) that has been sorely missing since 9/11.
Chris Wallace comes off looking like the right-wing stooge that he is and Clinton looks like the president I wish he still was.