Russert doing clean up for Clinton?
Let Clinton appear measured and trash the FNC interview?
My daughter here for breakfast....saw the interview but just now getting on FR! Clinton is the most ____________ )Fill in the blank w/your word of choice...they all fit. LOL
"Russert doing clean up for Clinton?
Let Clinton appear measured and trash the FNC interview?"
Hi everyone!
Just popping in for a little while today.
I heard Jim Pinkerton say earlier on FNC that he thinks that Bubba's 'rage' on FNS was to 'trash' (paraphrasing) Fox (right-wing conspiracy channel, don't ya know). He said that right after that interview, it was immediately posted to the Center for American Progress's web site (John Podesta is CEO of this group). I just went to the web site but couldn't find the interview.
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/c.biJRJ8OVF/b.8473/
I did a search and didn't find it on any site but Fox; however, it searching for Wallace-Clinton interview, I found this on the American Prospect web site. - Mike Wallace interview w Louis Freeh in 2005. I had forgotten that, just like the ruckus the Clintonistas made about the Path to 9/11 and wanting to change the script, they also wanted CBS to let them on 60 Minutes last year to call Louis Freeh a liar. Here's the liberal spin on that:
60 Short Minutes
Prospect exclusive: Clinton aides fire back at CBS for its one-sided report.
By Greg Sargent
Web Exclusive: 10.19.05
As if the tale of Mike Wallace, Louis Freeh, and Bill Clinton weren't strange enough, it turns out that there's more to the story. A great deal more.
In recent days, CBS and Wallace have taken a pummeling for granting Freeh, the former FBI director, airtime on 60 Minutes to criticize Bill Clinton without allowing Clinton administration officials any meaningful chance to counter Freeh's sensational charges.
The now-notorious interview took place on October 9, when Freeh spoke extensively with Wallace about his new book, My FBI, which makes a scathing accusation: In a 1998 meeting, Freeh claimed, the former president failed to press Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to let the FBI question Saudi-held suspects in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing -- and instead hit up the Crown Prince for a financial donation to his presidential library. CBS insisted that Clinton himself respond to these and other charges in the book. When Clinton declined, the network refused to allow any Clinton aides -- including those present at the meeting in question, all of whom deny Freeh's version of events -- to offer an on-air rebuttal. Under intense pressure, CBS agreed to read a brief statement from Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger. CBS's decision provoked sharp criticism from the people at Media Matters and elsewhere.
Yet this tale turns out to be even murkier than it first appeared. Indeed, a close look at the bitter behind-the-scenes back-and-forth between CBS and the Clinton camp in the runup to Wallace's interview reveals fresh details about the whole saga -- and raises further questions about CBS's journalistic conduct.
Rest of article here:
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10447
The American Prospect was founded in 1990 as an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics. Robert Kuttner, Robert Reich, and Paul Starr launched the magazine initially as a quarterly.
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We founded the Prospect out of a conviction that the conservative undertow in American political life is profoundly influenced by the dominance of conservative media and think tanks. Our conservative counterparts have played a critical role in pulling the entire national debate to the right. We intend to take it back.