back                                               Bill Clinton Stands up to Fox News

9/25/06: Bill Clinton did what all Democrats should be doing in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, he laid the facts on the table. He didn't avoid being confrontational, he told it like it was.

Fox News is well known for it's deceptions and it's distortion of the facts. It is far right wing and will do or say anything to sway public opinion against the left.

He was asked to appear on the show to talk about his foundation's goals of relieving global poverty and aids. He had agreed to talk for fifteen minutes on his second annual Global Initiative and fifteen minutes on any subject Fox News wanted to talk about.

Shortly into the interview Chris Wallace changed subjects. With a smile on his face he said that his viewers had requested that he ask Clinton why he hadn't done more to capture Bin Laden.

When Clinton started to answer and was bringing up the things he had done and had proof that he took the threat seriously and had in fact done everything he possibly could have done, Wallace seeing he had stepped into his own trap, tried to wiggle his way out. Bill Clinton wouldn't let him and the interview is history. All the points that Clinton made are facts, confirmed by the 9/11 commission.

Clinton leaned forward in his chair and tapping on Wallace's notes and gave Wallace a lecture that he badly needed. All I can say is "Go Bill."

Wallace brought up Somalia, saying that Bin Laden saw weakness in the American's leaving after the downing of the Black Hawk but failed to mention that the Republicans were pressuring him (Bill Clinton) To pull out the very next day and that he hadn't pulled out for a month after the incident. He (Wallace) also never mentioned that Ronald Reagan pulled out of Lebanon right after the truck bombing of out embassy in Beirut nor that George Bush Sr. took no action when Pan Am 103 was blown out if the sky 6 years later. To see what really happened with Somalia read #s 86 and 87 0f excerpt from "Against All Enemies"

Everything Bill Clinton said has been verified by the non-partisan 9/11 commission and other sources. I've been getting sick of the misleading statements that fly in the face of truth. Bill Clinton gave the new Bush administration a game plan for handling al Qaeda and warned them that the most important agenda and the one they would have to pay the most attention to was terrorism, but they ignored that warning. If you want to see just how much The Bush administration worried about al Qaeda read chapter 10 of "Against All Enemies" by Richard A Clarke

The Republican party has been ranting about how important the wire tapping provisions of the Patriot Act are. To see how important they were to the Republicans when Bill Clinton was is office, read this:  President wants Senate to hurry with new anti-terrorism laws.