Chris Wallace Has Never Asked A Bush Administration Official About The USS Cole
Chris Wallace Has Never Asked A Bush Administration Official About The USS Cole
The USS Cole was bombed on October 12, 2000. As Clinton noted in his interview with Fox, “The CIA and the FBI refused to certify that Bin Laden was responsible” until early 2001 which foreclosed the possibility of a full response during his administration.
The Bush administration, on the other hand, had 8 months prior to 9/11/01 to respond to the USS bombing and did nothing.
In an interview to air Sunday, Fox News Host Chris Wallace asked Bill Clinton why he didn’t respond to the USS Cole. Clinton said it was a “legitimate question” but challenged Wallace: “I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked why didn’t you do anything about the Cole.” First, Wallace responded, “we asked.” When pressed further by Clinton, Wallace demurred: “I — with Iraq and Afghanistan there’s plenty of stuff to ask.”
Neither Chris Wallace, nor his predecessor, Tony Snow ever asked anyone in the Bush administration why they failed to respond to the bombing of the USS Cole, according to a Lexis-Nexis database search. Wallace and Snow have had plenty of opportunities:
– Vice President Dick Cheney has been on Fox News Sunday 6 times.
– Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been on Fox News Sunday 9 times.
– Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been on Fox News Sunday 23 times.
– National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley has been on Fox News Sunday 4 times.
For the record, this was Bill Clinton’s first solo appearance on Fox News Sunday.
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I'd have never guessed... *cough*
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:49 pmThat crazed Clinton, always stirring up trouble! How dare he question Fox News on their journalism practices!
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:51 pmAmerica's Least Wanted
Dp you think they will now?
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:51 pmOn FOX in Dallas lastnight they did a story about HANNITY and colmes broadcasting live from SMU. Then they segwayed directly to a story about a guy who can pop his eyeballs out of his eye sockets at will.
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:57 pmI'm certain we'll see some serious questions from here on in. NOT.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:02 pmThere you people go again with the crazy facts. :)
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:07 pmThere you people go again with the crazy facts! :)
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:08 pmSpeaking of Dick Cheney, here is his official biograpy.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:08 pmYou fight terrorism with the media you've got, not the one you should have, or wish you did have.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:09 pmThe official report on the USS Cole was issued on January 19, 2001-- roughly 27 hours before Clinton left office.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:09 pmSo Wallace can ask Cheney, Condi, Hadley or Rummy and their response will be along the lines of "I haven't read that report yet."
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:10 pmSeems like Faux is really trying to "spin" Wallace's piss-poor performance. Face it, Chris: you lost control of the proceedings, got bitch-slapped for a good ten minutes by the Mighty Clenisâ„¢, the only replies you could come up with were nervous laughter and incomplete sentences filled with lies, and then you whimpered like a whipped dog trying to steer the interview back to the subject you deliberately veered away from.
I sure would like to hear what Chris' daddy has to say about this performance...
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:14 pmi believe bush attacked Al Qaeda a few months later. the fact that it was after 9/11 didnt take the fact away. why did it take the Clinton CIA 3 months to fins out who did it?
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:16 pm#13 - you are WRONG as usual. The Bush administration did not do ANYTHING to retaliate for the USS Cole.
Can we get some intelligent trolls in here?
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:24 pmYou folks are good.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:25 pm-
i believe--
...lies.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:28 pm#13 Finding out the truth takes time.
Of course right-wing bastards like yourself have so little regard for and need of the truth that I can understand your dismay at spending a whole 90 days making sure that the CIA lay the blame on the true guilty parties.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:32 pmAs much as I appreciate Media Matters I really can't think how this will affect the liars at FauxNews. If their behavior hasn't changed by now, documenting here won't change it. They are still liars. There will have to be a drastic drop in viewership of koolaid drinkers before that happens.
TrumanDem
http://trumansconscience.blogspot.com
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:34 pmI got a crazy foreign policy question for ya:
Pervez Musharraf recently disclosed Richard Armitage's post-9/11 threat to attack Pakistan if they didn't help fight the Taliban. But why has the media studiously ignored former ISI director Mahmood Ahmed's role in helping the Taliban and al Qaeda, including wiring $100K to Mohammed Atta?
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:38 pmOf course there is a double standard on Fox. Look at all the Fox News fans at this site (i.e. the trolls) and the outrageous double standards they have.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:39 pmIn the wake of Pervez Musharraf's disclosure that we threatened Pakistan after 9/11, why has the media studiously ignored former ISI director Mahmood Ahmed's (who personally communicated Armitage's threat to Musharraf) role in helping the Taliban and al Qaeda, including wiring $100K to Mohammed Atta?
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:41 pmI believe the 9-11 Commission report states the Rummy said the Cole attack was stale by the time they took office. Who new there was a shelf life to responding to terrorist attacks.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:42 pmtest
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:43 pmWhen did the Bush regime attack Al Qaeda? More lies from the lying Right.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:49 pmtest
Comment by Heywood J.
A+
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:52 pmi believe bush attacked Al Qaeda a few months later. the fact that it was after 9/11 didnt take the fact away. why did it take the Clinton CIA 3 months to fins out who did it?
Comment by mauibob —
That's quite a stretch there, mauibob. Surf's up, why not catch a few waves...?
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:53 pmIn the wake of Pervez Musharraf’s disclosure that we threatened Pakistan after 9/11, why has the media studiously ignored former ISI director Mahmood Ahmed’s (who personally communicated Armitage’s threat to Musharraf) role in helping the Taliban and al Qaeda, including wiring $100K to Mohammed Atta?
Comment by Heywood J. — September 23, 2006 @ 3:41 pm
That is a good question, Heywood. Maybe we should ask our resident conspiratorialist Exley for his explanation. I'm sure he can find something to say, having already established that Saddam = Al Qaeda = 9/11 for us.
September 23rd, 2006 at 3:54 pmThe official report on the USS Cole was issued on January 19, 2001– roughly 27 hours before Clinton left office.
when asked why the Bush administration had not acted on the USS Cole report, Condi Rice said "It was a historical report..."
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:05 pm#27 Maybe we should ask our resident conspiratorialist Exley for his explanation. Comment by RealScientist — September 23, 2006 @ 3:54 pm
Great, ask the jack-ass from hell back, nice call… Then maybe we could have some real discussion
Comment by ren — September 23, 2006 @ 4:04 pm
Well, at least I created an opening for you to call him "jackass from hell".
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:13 pmRepublicans rewrite of history: "Everything is Bill Clinton's fault including our lack of leadership, our cowardice, our high deficits, our phony war, our lies, our contempt for the Constitution, our fraudulent elections, our hatred of freedom, our hatred for Veterans, our contempt for science, and last but not least, our stupidity."
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:37 pmChris Wallace is the very definition of "smarmy little shit" . . . his father must be almost as disappointed as George HW Bush.
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:37 pmI think Clinton should have asked Wallace what he thought the Republican October Suprise would be.
Would it be that the attack on Iran will just be a prelude to the real 'Suprise'.
Then when the new war has everyone distracted ...POW! .....Republicans win Nov elections by stealing votes ?
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:50 pmok - so this is the thread where the humorists have gathered...
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:51 pmgood! just got here and i could use a chuckle and a smile...
...
An investigation by the Senate Banking Committee in 1994 determined that the U.S. Department of Commerce had approved, for the purpose of research, the shipping of dual use biological agents to Iraq during the mid-1980s, including Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), later identified by the Pentagon as a key component of the Iraqi biological warfare program, as well as Clostridium botulinum, Histoplasma capsulatum, Brucella melitensis, and Clostridium perfringens. The Committee report noted that each of these had been "considered by various nations for use in war." [5] Declassified U.S. government documents indicate that the U.S. government had confirmed that Iraq was using chemical weapons (but not biological weapons that the agents being exported could have been used for) "almost daily" during the Iran-Iraq conflict as early as 1983. [6] The chairman of the Senate committee, Don Riegle, said: “The executive branch of our government approved 771 different export licenses for sale of dual-use technology to Iraq. I think it’s a devastating recordâ€. [1]
Exley denies anything that doesn't fit his reality..like this above..[Reagan era]
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:51 pmAnd one of Saddams appeasers is pictured above...do you see?
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:52 pmClinton loved the popularity that came with his presidency, but now he must live with its unfortunate and unflattering legacy.
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:54 pmSorry about the earlier posting trouble. #27, Real Scientist, you're right, it's funny how the Saddam=al Qaeda conspiratorialists always seem to look askance at the actual, documented collusions that were right under their noses all along.
It's almost as if they're just seeing what they want to see. [/sarcasm]
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:56 pmBUsh loved the vacations that came with his presidency, but now he must live with its unfortunate and unflattering legacy of ignoring the PDB, while on vacation in Crawford, that culminated on the attack on America.
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:59 pmCaption contest:
"...and then I pulled George's finger just like this, and Damn!! My heart literally stopped...that's why my face looks like this."
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:00 pmok - so this is the thread where the humorists have gathered…
good! just got here and i could use a chuckle and a smile…
…
Comment by katy
Yeh wanna See Calahans pic? He posted it the other day..
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/ManlyBeachC.jpeg
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:02 pmBrown centre and Root Calahan right
240 x 371 pixels - 46k
That all you got ION, your pic is world renound, the little yellow person waving the big white flag.
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:06 pmCaption Contest;;
Dick; "How does the GOP find it's ass? First you get a knotted rope, and then you hold it, like this"..[grimaces]
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:07 pmhat all you got ION, your pic is world renound, the little yellow person waving the big white flag.
Thats me Calahan! World Renowned bufu!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:10 pmION, you have a thing for "manly men" I'm sure you do well hanging out at Home Depot.
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:10 pmClinton loved the popularity that came with his presidency, but now he must live with its unfortunate and unflattering legacy.
Sadly, yes, this is all I have --meaningless colorful metaphors and personal projections of my demented reality.
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:12 pmthe little yellow person waving the big white flag.
Oh great more colorful projectionist rantings from 'Shaft-ian' America
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:15 pm(Wink Wink) ION I'll be in the plumbing section of home Despot, just say the Codeword 'Jeff Gannon' --Brokeback Calahan
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:18 pmI'm an old pathtic, coward. I hide whenever confronted, I cower except when I'm behind this cloak of secrecy. I'm so afraid, so afraid.
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:19 pmKudos Ren!
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:19 pmDAMN Bill Clinton! Somebody commits a crime against U.S. personnel and he has to follow the rule of law, the niceties like, have probable cause before you arrest somebody! If only he had just picked on some country that posed no threat to the U.S. He could have bombed that country back to the stone age; killing tens of thousands of innocent people in revenge for the attack on the Cole. Then there would have been no need to ask Bush why he didn't do something about the Cole attack for months.
Gee, if only we could get rid of such things as the rule of law, probable cause, innocent until proven guilty, rights under the Geneva Convention, prohibitions against torture and using coerced confessions...
What? you say the new Senate Bill authorizing torture does just that? Woo-Hoo! Just wait until that bill becomes law! We won't have to question Bush about anything...in fact, we won't be able to question Bush about anything...not if we ever want to see the light of day again.
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:22 pm
hey! let's not "cast aspersions" on flaming gays!
hypocrites are, of course, fair game...
zooey, your caption is a hoot!
ion - not sure if that pic helped or not... you know, the ever ready reminder that the pretty ones are taken or gay... ah well - as an artist i can appreciate the fine physical attributes at least...
(bet that one gets me in trouble...)
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:05 pm...
Here are *MY* questions:
Why did the Bush administration want to install an IRANIAN SPY as the leader of Iraq? (I thought Iran was in the "Axis of Evil"). And did they think it was a good idea to have this Iranian SPY sit behind Laura Bush at the State of the Union address? (I guess Laura's lucky that Chalabi didn't feel it was politically expedient to put a bullet in the back of her head). And now that it is realized that we were fed disinformation from this SPY...why is he rich and powerful and living in Iraq instead of in jail?
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:25 pmThere was once a battle in Wallace's soul between keeping his integrity and taking the money. He decided to take the money.
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:30 pmIon - not sure if that pic helped or not… you know, the ever ready reminder that the pretty ones are taken or gay… ah well - as an artist i can appreciate the fine physical attributes at least
lol, the pic was only to stifle Calahan..
BTW I'm not taken =)
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:30 pmWhy did the Bush administration want to install an IRANIAN SPY as the leader of Iraq? (I thought Iran was in the “Axis of Evilâ€)
Bush says he got 'duped' but this was the plan since 1992 to install Chalabi As you see he was actually an agent
Chalabi was part o Iraqi opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), created in 1992 for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow [War] of Saddam The INC received major funding and assistance from the United States,
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:38 pmChalabi is said to have had political contacts within the Project for the New American Century,[PNAC] most notably with Paul Wolfowitz [neo-con], a student of nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter and Richard Perle [Neo-con] who was introduced to Chalabi by Wohlstetter in 1985. AEI and PNAC are advisors, very bad ones.
And Chalabi isn't Iranian..
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:39 pmChalabi is the scion of a prominent Shi'a family, one of the wealthy power elite of Baghdad, where he was born.
Ahhh, ION, bubbie, have you met my friend katy? Lovely girl, lovely!
katy, ION here is a fine gentleman, able to find the most appropriate of pictures.
Artists at heart, am I wrongk!?
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:40 pmFox does not ask hard questions of Bush&Co. That is not their job. Their job is to catapult the propaganda.
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:49 pmI see it as we had 8 years without terrorist attacks during Clinton's term.
Bush had a year to pursue OBL for the USS Cole, and didn't even try, much less fail in an attempt. He had dismissed Clarke, ignored advice, paid no mind to the Agent who personally drove to see Bush and tell him about OBL, and finally, he pooh-poohed the 8/6 PDB.
So in the case for chasing terrorists, who is the true failure?
Artists at heart, am I wrongk!?
Comment by Yenta
Naw, I am not a very good artist, that would be my mother and sister. I am better at mechanical things =)
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:53 pmEL DIABLOCO ----
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:56 pmThe crazy devil company, I like the names truthiness.
EXECUTE ALL WAR CRIMINALS, it's the WORLD law.
I am better at mechanical things =)
Comment by ION
ION! You are perfect for my little katy. She makes things beautiful, and you make them move! Oy! Such a blessing!
Now, where did my little shiksa get to...?
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:11 pmahh, yenta... up to your magic again?
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:16 pmshiska? yeesh...
This site should be embarrassed to even have a post about this. My response to this drivel is here:
http://environmentalrepublican.blogspot.com/2006/09/think-progress-loads-on-bs.html
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:19 pmAh, katy, it has worked before! Don't fight it, darling! True love wins every time....
Run alongk, and find our lovely ION...go on...
:)
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:26 pmAlert the media!
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:30 pmI'm not sure we're better off blaming one party -- or its leader -- or the other or poking through what this or that media outlet said or didn't say. Our problems are too big for partisanship. Did Clinton screw up on some things? Yes. Did Bush? Yes. Did every other president as well? Yes. The media? Yes. All that is normal (albeit unfortunate). I doubt any of those screwups were made with malicious intent, but that's how we are treating these things and everyone has gotten so extreme in their views. If we keep focusing so narrowly on partisanship we'll never get beyond it. The biggest problem we have right now is partisanship, actually. It kills thinking. It kills communication. It kills innovation. It quite literally affects brain activity: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11009379/ Personally, I think a primary goal for the public should be to have less control over our lives from left wing and right wing partisan politicians, their parties, and their followers.
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:41 pmWell now wait, we can't decide, because they didn't report.
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:41 pmHey, #69, I commented at your site.
I beg your pardon, the part about Bush doing nothing for eight months about the U.S.S. Cole, what part of that is classic Clinton spin? Enlighten me.
September 23rd, 2006 at 7:48 pmoooh yenta... did you maybe doublecross the ren at one time?
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:24 pmwhat could that be about? scumbag? a matchmaker is a "scumbag"?
c'mon, ren... take it back...
.
katy,
Oy vey! I'm thinking ren didn't like the nice boy I set him up with? Such a shame, too....
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:49 pmTo paraphrase a line from Kipling, a right-winger attacked is far less formidable than a right-winger attacking. Clinton did what Democrats have needed to do for years: refuse to accept the honesty of the questions or the integrity of the questioners, and do so to their faces.
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:52 pmOy vey! I’m thinking ren didn’t like the nice boy I set him up with?...
Comment by Yenta — September 23, 2006 @ 8:49 pm
well, i missed that one... i thought you were trying to set ME up with ION...
so i'm thinking, if it's an "older woman", a "mother figure" of a "gramma" that an ion would be interested in, cause i could be any and all!...
and then, on another thread, he declares to be a queer nicaraguan!
yeesh! ain't that a kicker!
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:22 pmah well...
"Couldn't be bothered swatting at flies" is I think what Dubya said about the attack and his non-action if I recall correctly?
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:27 pmOf course Chris Wallace hasn't asked the Bush administration about any response to the Cole bombing. Why would he, he's such a hugh waterboy for the Republicans and the administration. Any legitimate questions have to be asked by those liberals at CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC, becuase God knows the so called Fox News journalist aren't about to. Why? Because they might be doing their jobs as journalist and get at the real truth rather than be cheerleaders and waterboys and girls.
I've personally seen Fox News intentionally avoid obvious questions and attack Democrats to try to prove Republicans are right. They have no journalistic integrity at all and should be ashame to be called reporters. They claim that the liberal media is biased, but apparently they don't understand the mean of the word "biased". Chris Wallace is such a jerk, I can't stand that little weasel. His father is a man of intregrity whom the morons at Fox have demonized and he sits there are laughs with them like a dumb fool. If someone insulted my father I'd kick the livin you know what out of them, not sit there and help them attack people because you disagree with them.
There isn't one real journalist in the entire Fox News company. They are just a bunch of want to be's who have a one sided view of all things political, which happens to be the same view as the Republicans Party.
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:28 pmWow, why are my posts getting zapped? Thanks TP!!
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:59 pm#66: I'm sure you're right. I assume you've posted similar comments on right wing sites. Had much luck there?
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:24 pmren,
Apparently you are getting zapped because of something disgusting you said about me and katy. It's been real....bye.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:27 pmWow, Clinton has become completely unhinged! We can only wonder if it's due to his refusal, for 8 years after the first WTC terrorist attack, to take Bin Laden into custody when he was offered up and his constant refusals to kill Osama. Perhaps knowing that his refusal to do either eventually resulted in the 9-11 attacks is finally eating on his conscience.
KS
September 24th, 2006 at 3:52 am#78. Right....and Adam and Eve rode a dinosaur to church on Sunday. Always wondered how the 30% lived.
Kind of like Bush with Matt Lauer the other day, huh? Did you want Clinton to get all up in Wallace's grill and point his finger at his chest?
The blind sheikh was in charge of that one. Do you know where he is now? He was (found), arrested, tried, and convicted. Now he's rotting in jail. That's how a real American gets justice.
This right-wing myth has been debunked by the 9/11 commission. There are links to it on these very pages.
Did you like that movie on ABC? The rest of us chose to watch reality, i.e., football.
How's Bush's conscience doing? Tell me, what did he do to prevent 9/11? He was in office for eight whole months and if it's true that Clinton was systematically negligent in dealing with the terrorist threat, than surely Bush would have taken some steps to reverse it. Maybe it is too much to ask that he prevent 9/11 in his rookie year, but he did have a lot of help. Clinton told him that Osama would be his biggest problem. Richard Clarke was alarmed with the way they were ignoring him so he got fired. The fricken CIA gave him a report a month ahead of time screaming "Bin Ladin determined to attack in United States". Read the news reports between January and September 2001 and you won't find the administration saying anything about fighting terrorism.
September 24th, 2006 at 6:42 amKaren doesn't need to *read* the news reports - she has FOX to tell her all she needs to know. Ignorance is bliss, and certainty satisfies.
September 24th, 2006 at 8:37 amKaren...baaaaaaaaa.
September 24th, 2006 at 11:23 amBorrowed from comments over at tbogg's joint:
it's taken a long time, but it looks like the facts -- inconvenient as they are -- may finally come to light. spending all that time and money on whitewater, paula jones, and monica lewinsky may have been all the distractions osama needed to get his work done. it's amazing clinton got anything done, all the more so when you see what the current occupant has accomplished: more soldiers have died in Iraq than the clvilians we lost on 9/11 and we have been promised it won't stop wil 2009.
had enough?
September 24th, 2006 at 11:48 amit is understandable that clinton was unable to act at the end of his administration. i mean, that is the only time when you can get away with taking trinkets off air force one. it is also laughable that progressives are fingerpointing for bush inaction. there is a lot to complain about, but inaction is not one of them. pick an identity and stick with it.
September 24th, 2006 at 2:06 pmren,
September 24th, 2006 at 2:27 pmApparently you are getting zapped because of something disgusting you said about me and katy. It’s been real….bye.
Comment by Zooey — September 23, 2006 @ 11:27 pm
Just for the record, I was asking a question to the guy that said the filthy remark.
Why didn't Chris Wallace or any of the other Fox News operatives ever nail Bush to the wall about his comments on October 13, 2002 about Bin Laden?
"I don’t know where he is. Nor — you know, I just don’t spend that much time on him really, to be honest with you. I....I truly am not that concerned about him."
September 24th, 2006 at 3:52 pmJust for the record, I was asking a question to the guy that said the filthy remark.
Comment by ren
And you felt like you just had to prop up that remark with a question like that? That's just not right...
September 24th, 2006 at 4:23 pmLooks like another brainwashed victim has shown up here named Karen Schell. She might like to meet Paul who posts here too -- neither one of them has any recollection of history and facts, but are pretty good about repeating FOX disinformation. Poor souls, they can't help it if they don't know BS when they hear it. They have always been told what to think and they always do what they're told. They don't question, they don't look it up and see for themselves, no, they just believe the Hannitys and O'Reilleys, and the rest of them.
September 24th, 2006 at 5:23 pmNice to have some dissident voices, that mostly don't discredit themselves too much. You just have to see which end of the dog is wagging.... whatever inaction is occuring abroad... there is no shortage of progress in the reduction of personal freedoms in the US and other western countries under the banner of anti-terrorism.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." I think it was Roosevelt?
Make sure enough attention is paid at home!
September 24th, 2006 at 5:28 pmMike Wallace knew how to ask a hardball question but maybe that's because he wasn't reading a Murdoch-approved script.
September 24th, 2006 at 5:47 pmChris Wallace looked like a pewling wimp compared to Clinton.
Chris should have watched more Mike and less Bill (O'Reilly) if he wanted to be a real reporter.
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September 24th, 2006 at 6:45 pm#88. Gord. Ben Franklin, 1759.
September 24th, 2006 at 7:18 pmTest
September 24th, 2006 at 7:31 pmIf the Righties are so good with protecting us, what are they doing for the last 5 years? Last time when I checked Bin Ladin and his cronies are still making home videos .
Is Mr.Bushy is hoping that Bin Ladin will die of old age??
September 24th, 2006 at 7:50 pm[...] Like Clinton, Think Progress shifts the argument to specific questions about the U.S.S. Cole, in order to argue that Clinton is correct: Neither Chris Wallace, nor his predecessor, Tony Snow ever asked anyone in the Bush administration why they failed to respond to the bombing of the USS Cole, according to a Lexis-Nexis database search. [...]
September 24th, 2006 at 7:55 pmLet's read what Condi Rice had to say about why the Bush regime didn't do anything after the attack on the USS Cole:
RICE:
September 24th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
In his 9/11 Commission testimony, here is what Bush's Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft had to say about why the Bush administration didn't respond militarily to the USS Cole attack (aside from the fact that the Bush administration barely even spoke about it amongst themselves):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9088-2004Apr13.html
Q: Was there ever any such consideration given in the Bush administration to responding to the attack on the Cole with a military strike?
ASHCROFT: Well, I was briefed by the CIA on a number of occasions, as well as by the FBI. And I did ask about the Cole.
As you know, our FBI personnel were on the scene within almost hours after the event and they developed a preliminary understanding that the individuals conducting the attack were associated with al Qaeda.
September 24th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Y'all need to stop piling on poor baby chris. Poor chrissy was scared that Dickhead was gonna shoot him like he did his buddy on that Texas ranch.
September 24th, 2006 at 8:39 pmThis is a big loser for your team Think Progress. I'd not dig your hole any deeper. As someone who watches Fox all the time, voted for Bush twice, gets more partisan than most, but does NOT think Bill Clinton is the Devil and doesnt blame him for 9/11 at all... Clinton blew up for no reason here. He was wrong and frankly looked like a nut making this out to be some vast conspiracy hit piece.
This article about the Cole is an absolute joke. How many times was Rumsfeld asked about doing more pre 9-11 to get Osama?
September 24th, 2006 at 8:53 pmAnyone who thought Clinton "blew up" in this Fox News appearance has obviously had an overly sheltered life and that may explain why such trembling lillies need to send in the troops every time some idiot foreign despot says "boo".
September 24th, 2006 at 9:00 pmClinton shows Democrats how to fight back-and he does it on the republicans' own message delivery TV network with the republicans' own Weasel Wallace.
September 24th, 2006 at 9:27 pmWhat went wrong, Fox?
How did you allow yourself to be used?
Was it TVhubris?
Did you fall in love with your own power?
What a performance!
Clinton Sandbagged You!!!!!!!!!!!
[...] Wallace says they’d asked the Bush admin about the Cole bombing but: Vice President Dick Cheney has been on Fox News Sunday 6 times. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been on Fox News Sunday 9 times. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been on Fox News Sunday 23 times. And none of them were asked about the Cole bombing at all. [...]
September 24th, 2006 at 10:02 pmOk here was a interview gone bad. Chris Wallace trying to defame Bill Clinton, and using ruse and trickery to land the interview. I think I’ll go back now to watching Soledad on CNN. I mean c’ mon, at least give yourself a little merit Chris, you had a team of republicans critiquing the interview, you are not playing fair. There should be stiff penalties for for doing what Chris Wallace did by leading the president on and trying to catch him unprepared, it was supposed to be an interview about the Global Initiative, not making Chris look better by landing a cheesy produced interview under false pretenses, in a right wing format. Shame on Chris Wallace and shame on Fox for hiring him, we know why he was cut from ABC anyhow.
September 24th, 2006 at 11:33 pmFrom #99--
They also have never watched Bill O'Reilly either, as he blows up on a regular basis almost daily........or Joe Scarborough, or Hannity. In fact, they must not watch Faux Noose much at all, unless they cannot recognize blowing up unless it comes from conservatives and is directed at progressives.
September 24th, 2006 at 11:41 pmWallace did not ask Clinton specifically about the Cole either. He mentioned the Cole as a broader question about terrorist attacks on America. Wallace asked Clinton the same question he asked Rumsfeld in 04:
I understand this is 20/20 hindsight, it’s more than an individual manhunt. I mean — what you ended up doing in the end was going after al Qaeda where it lived. . . . pre-9/11 should you have been thinking more about that?
. . . .
What do you make of his [Richard Clarke’s] basic charge that pre-9/11 that this government, the Bush administration largely ignored the threat from al Qaeda?
. . . .
Mr. Secretary, it sure sounds like fighting terrorism was not a top priority.
September 24th, 2006 at 11:55 pmWallace did not ask Clinton specifically about the Cole either. He mentioned the Cole as a broader question about terrorist attacks on America. Wallace asked Clinton the same question he asked Rumsfeld in 04:
I understand this is 20/20 hindsight, it’s more than an individual manhunt. I mean — what you ended up doing in the end was going after al Qaeda where it lived. . . . pre-9/11 should you have been thinking more about that?
. . . .
What do you make of his [Richard Clarke’s] basic charge that pre-9/11 that this government, the Bush administration largely ignored the threat from al Qaeda?
. . . .
Mr. Secretary, it sure sounds like fighting terrorism was not a top priority.
September 25th, 2006 at 12:06 amIts about time someone kicked Chris Wallace's rearend .. its time for him to become a real journalist like his dad and not be a patsy for his right wing republican buddies!
September 25th, 2006 at 1:17 am[...] Think Progress » Chris Wallace Has Never Asked A Bush Administration Official About The USS Cole facts, schmacts/you go to war with the journamalism you have, not the journalamalism you wish you had (tags: 9/11 facts realitybased journamalism) [...]
September 25th, 2006 at 1:20 amOk let me get the facts str8t...early '80's the U.S. gives bio/chem wepons to Saddamm, CIA forms and equips Al Qaeda and appoints Bin Laden as leader in Afghanistan to fight Commies..fast forward...early '90's Saddam gets too close to U.S. interests in the Middle East and our puppet leader attacks, meanwhile in Afghanistan the CIA is helping the Taliban and Al Qaeda to take control of the country...mid '90's Iraq is no longer a viable threat in the Middle East and under constant surveilance, peace is imminent throughout the region...1st trade center attack...cruise missiles launched at Bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan missed by 1 hour....January 2001...Hart commission tries to meet with Bush to warn of an imminent terror attack...Bush is not interested...August...report of impending attack...again no interest...5 years later...Afghanistan is heating up again attacks are increasing...American troops are being blown up in Iraq by U.S. supplied weapons from the1980's that were not secured after the initial victory...we are more isolated than Nazi Germany in WWII...
Truth is hard to swallow when it does not shine positively on those you admire and love...critical thinking takes an unbiased/unaffiliated thought process, until our leaders and people become critical thinkers and people only of morality we can claim to only be as civilized as those brutal dictators/fascists/ and murderers.
September 25th, 2006 at 1:24 amChris Wallace DID ask the Bush Administration's SECRETARY of DEFENSE, DONALD RUMSFELD the same question.
http://patterico.com/2006/09/24/5187/chris-wallace-has-indeed-grilled-bush-officials-about-failing-to-get-osama-before-911/
September 25th, 2006 at 1:52 amNo, Chris Wallace DID NOT ask the same question of Rumsfeld.
That patterico.com link is riddled with falsehoods.
First of all, Clinton did not charge “that Wallace hasn’t asked these sorts of questions of Bush officials†as the patterico.com link claimed. Typically, patterico.com is refuting something Clinton never said.
He didn’t just say Wallace didn’t ask “these sorts†of questions. He cited specific questions that Wallace never asked anyone in the Bush administration.
Here are the specific questions Clinton listed: "Why didn't you do anything about the Cole?" and "Why did you fire Dick Clarke?"
Wallace’s specifically mentioning the USS Cole attack as a basis for asking Bill Clinton “why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them (al-Qaeda) out of business?†makes no sense considering the Bush administration’s own testimony under oath to the 9/11 Commission was that “the ability to come to a conclusion, to build the nexus back from those actually involved in the attack (of the USS Cole) to those who were command- and-control figures in al Qaeda was not established until -- and I'm not sure of the date, I think it must have been late in the summer or early in the fall of 2001.†– John Ashcroft.
On the other hand, asking the Bush administration why they "didn't do anything about the Cole" is an utterly logical one to ask the Bush administration because, according to their own 9/11 Commission testimony, the required nexus for who was responsible was established MONTHS into their watch, not Clinton’s.
September 25th, 2006 at 5:51 amCalahan --
Personal attacks are not argument. They are dishonest and irresponsible.
September 25th, 2006 at 7:26 amDash --
Note that those who bombed the WTC in 1993 were tracked down -- by police work -- arrested -- by police work -- charged, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for life.
You voted for Bushit twice. And we still don't know where Osama is, let alone whether he's "dead or alive".
Fools vote for fools out of self-destructive spite and unfounded "pride".
September 25th, 2006 at 7:35 amDash --
9/11 occurred on Bushit's watch. You voted for him twice.
Where's Osama?
Indeed: In view of Bushit AG Ashcroft's "Commission" testimony on the point, where are those who attacked the "USS COle"?
September 25th, 2006 at 7:40 am[...] Clinton is right about the context of the interview as well. The recent ABC special that attacked his record on anti-terrorism contradicted the factual record. Chris Wallace was eager to attack Bush’s anti-terrorism record, but failed to confront Bush administration officials in the past (link link link). And all of these one-sided, counterfactual attacks come as the election season starts to heat up. In short, what Clinton said was correct. [...]
September 25th, 2006 at 10:15 am[...] ThinkProgress fact-checked Wallace’s claim that he asked Bush administration officials tough questions about their pre-9/11 efforts to combat terrorism here and here. Media Matters debunks Wallace here. [...]
September 25th, 2006 at 12:16 pmIt's about ratings! Fox and ABC are in the pocket of the neo-cons, so they won't ask Bush Co. the same questions. But come on! CBS and NBC can make a killing in the ratings by doing a show "The Follow-up - What the Republicans have to say?" With all the buzz about the Wallace-Clinton interview, I'll bet that show will blow "Desparate Housewives" out of the water.
September 25th, 2006 at 8:15 pmPockets of the NeoCons.... You cats are funny...sick, but funny.
Clinton ruled by the daily polls. If he didn't get poor numbers after blowing up the Al Quedia empty tents, he may have done more.
Nice leadership Bubba! D'OH!!
September 25th, 2006 at 8:38 pmI thought I'd pass on one of those interesting mis-speaks by the leader of our country:
September 25th, 2006 at 9:59 pmPresident Bush: "Peter. Are you going to ask that question with shades on?"
Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times: "I can take them off."
Bush: "I'm interested in the shade look, seriously."
Wallsten: "All right, I'll keep it, then."
Bush: "For the viewers, there's no sun."
Wallsten: "I guess it depends on your perspective."
Bush: "Touche.
--An exchange with legally blind reporter Peter Wallsten, to whom Bush later apologized, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006
FauxNews--I LOVE IT!!!
So true, unfortunately.
Fox News--stop ignoring reality--you are visibly, embarrassingly, and shamefully biased.
September 26th, 2006 at 12:17 amMaybe we should elect Hillary in '08 to avenge former President Clinton's honour - She could go after Yemen for hosting the USS Cole murder suicide perps.....
September 26th, 2006 at 1:51 amYOU GO FORMER PRESIDENT BUBBA! I have wondered all these years how he could hold his tongue while Fox was throwing mud. I'm quite proud of him for defending himself.
September 26th, 2006 at 3:23 am#50... THANK YOU! I couldn't have said it better myself.
Damn liberals... trying to honor stupid ass documents like the Constitution and the Geneva Convention.... what fools.
BILL (NOT HILLARY) IN 2008! (DARE I DREAM?)
September 26th, 2006 at 3:33 amRead this article..... and you'll see where Chris Wallace was coming from!
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September 26th, 2006 at 3:39 amHow silly of Mr. Clinton to get involved in this discussion with a Fox reporter (for want of a better word) in the first place.
I love how channels like FOX play the Pro-Conservative game with the party in power and then play the "porno" game with viewers at other times, as in the exposure visible in their TV shows. Such double standards of pro-neo-con and pro-porn is what makes me avoid FOX at all times, except for the damn NFL.
Maybe Chris Wallace should start interviewing Sponge Bob Square Pants, Tinky Winky, and Elton John, not to forget the Mayor of Berlin. Not all of whom get a nod of approval from me but at least the neo-cons will enjoy the show much more than trying to find out from Mr. Clinton what the word "is" means.
September 26th, 2006 at 8:46 amBush had 8 months?
CLINTON HAD 8 YEARS...
Food for thought.
September 26th, 2006 at 12:28 pmImran, if you really "avoid FOX at all times" how on earth do you know whether they are "Pro-Conservative", or simply reporting the news?
Nice try bud.
September 26th, 2006 at 12:31 pmPlease read the attached 3 compelling articles that have nothing to do with FOX....we MUST stop the politics, our politics and blame is allowing people to be slaughtered.
The wolf is at the door and we are spending all of time fighting about who let the wolf get that close to our door. Shouldn't more of our collective thought, energy, money be about removing the threat?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/011001/archive_007715_3.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/10/23/uss.cole.01/
news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/crs/coleterrattck13001.pdf
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September 26th, 2006 at 5:55 pm[...] Also, Chris Wallace Has Never Asked A Bush Administration Official About The USS Cole. [...]
September 27th, 2006 at 11:47 pmWallace said he is asking this question because lot of people have emailed it to him. Every body should email him this analysis and demand an explanation on FNS. Here is the email FNS@foxnews.com
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September 28th, 2006 at 10:43 am[...] In fact, he hadn’t asked. Neither Chris Wallace, nor his predecessor, Tony Snow, ever asked anyone in the Bush administration why they failed to respond to the bombing of the U.S.S Cole. (They had 42 opportunities with top administration officials to do so, including 23 with Condoleezza Rice.) [...]
October 13th, 2006 at 12:15 pm[...] Wallace didn’t ask the question or any question on the topic. It’s the 24th time Rice has been on Fox News Sunday since 9/11 without being asked about the U.S.S. Cole. [...]
October 15th, 2006 at 10:13 amThe problem is that the question was a stupid one. Everyone who's read the 9/11 Report knows the answer to why Bush did not attack during those eight months: they were working on a comprehensive al Qaeda strategy, but were far too slow in implementing it. No one who has read the Report can reasonably conclude the Bush Administration was doing nothing (for example, State was drawing up a plan to completely isolated the Taliban, in order to get to al Qaeda); the question is not "why didn't they respond to the Cole" but "why didn't they attempt to respond sooner."
But the 9/11 Report does not really give us an answer as to why Clinton did not respond. We already knew the thing about intelligence agencies not concluding Bin Laden was responsible, but we also knew that they concluded that known al Qaeda agents were responsible. If lack of intel pointing to Bin Laden himself was the only reason, is that good enough? The Report really doesn't delve much into this.
As to the 20,000 emails: hell, if I got that many, I'd reject the question too, no matter what the question is. I wouldn't allow myself to be bullied into asking a question (especially one everyone already knows the answer to). You guys really need to get over yourselves.
October 15th, 2006 at 4:28 pm[...] Clinton was angry that, by implication, he was being blamed for 9-11. Clinton accused Wallace of carrying out a “conservative hit job” and asked Wallace if he had asked any Bush administration officials similar questions about their actions before 9-11. Of course, Wallace had not, despite conducting more than 30 interviews with high level officials, including almost 25 with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice alone . By comparison, this was Clinton’s first solo interview with Wallace. [...]
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