Posted on 09/24/2006 9:03:18 AM PDT by technomage
After reading parts of the FoxNews Sunday transcript of the interview between Wallace and Clinton, something stuck out to me.
Clinton keeps claiming that 'right wing conservatives' were constantly complaining that he was too obsessed with bin Laden. I have mentioned previous that I have no memories of that happening. What I do remember is conservatives in general complaining about his obsession with Monica.
But, getting back to that claim that conservatives were complaining that Clinton was too obsessed with bin Laden.
After watching the rant, oops, interview, Clinton slipped up. He showed his cards by uttering three little words: wag the dog.
It was like a light bulb going off in my head.
Now it made sense. Clinton is once again 'mixing' historical events to conform to what he wants the world to remember.
Conservatives did use the wag the dog reference numerous times, not in reference to bin Laden, but in reference to Clinton's massive bombardment of Serbia, which had absolutely nothing to do with bin Laden.
Clinton, in the interview basically says, and I paraphrase:
conservatives were complaining that I was obsessed with bin Laden, you know the wag the dog references.
THAT is the statement that shows that either Clinton is having memory problems and mixing up events, or is lying.
All the wag the dog references in the 90's had nothing to do with bin Laden, but had everything to do with Serbia and Milosevic, as far as my meager memory serves. I may be wrong, and I may be unaware of statements to the contrary but as far as I can remember, all those references were regarding Milosevic and Serbia.
Claiming that 'right wing conservatives' were complaining that Clinton was obsessed with bin Laden is an outright lie. But to try and prove it by using the wag the dog reference was a stupid move on his part and illuminated his lack of facts to back it up. And in my view, invalidated the rest of the rant, er interview.
You can never go wrong claiming that clinton is a liar.
You are correct, and his talent for aggressive rapid fire speech, aimed mostly at supporters, has used this diversion-from-reality technique for his entire presidency. The sycophantic media never once said "hey, wait a minute. You said x, now you are saying y."
We must read Clintons new book "I'll never wag my finger again". It's bound to be a best seller.
the impeached one doth protest too much!!!
he relies and quotes Richard Clark and the 9/11 commission report...both state that he didn't do squat and that he treated the first WT Tower bombings as a criminal event!...now he wants the world to believe that he was gung ho and wanted to kill bin laden...when he really was more concerned with Monica under his desk!
this impeached liar is trying to reclaim, white wash and polish up his legacy..."but that all depends on what is is!"
I don't remember anyone sugesting he was preoccupied with Bin Ladin because he WASN'T. The man claims to have been obsessed with him, but can't point to any sustained effort to kill or capture him. In fact, he publicly admitted that he didn't get him when he could have.
The man is a narcissist in the purest sense. Hillary, with her fits of rage and physical violence, is a classic boderline personality. No wonder they've stayed together so long. When a narcissist finds a boderline they become fused for life.... They'll kill eachohter or eventually die trying
Waht is wrong with this...man?
One thought keeps occuring to me as I see his ranting ... "the man doesth protest too much". Someone must have hit a raw nerve.
Clinton's "legacy" is getting more and more tainted.
Slick is a very clever, sly lying sack of sh*t. He was trying to fool gullible people into believing that he was all over Bin Laden during his presidency when in fact he was not. I, like you, have no memory whatsoever of Clinton ever uttering Bin Laden by name during his presidency, not once. History should sum up Clinton with one word:
LIAR!
I also don't recall the moonbats screaming that Clinton bypassed the UN to attack Serbia.
Pffft...and why should anyone believe or pay attention to Clinton's antics? This is a man who got on national attention and emphatically denied having sexual relations with Monica Screwwhenski. The guy knows how to act and "put on the dog". Are we now to believe he's a wounded saintly type of guy? Pffft!!!!!
I don't believe a thing this pathological liar says.
Just more self serving revisionist lies timed to minimize damage to his false "tough guy" image.
Bill subscribes to the "best defense is a good offence" when trying to cover his a$$.
He's still seething over the ABC, 9-11 story and took it out of Chris Wallace because he works for FOX. Bet he didn't go "off" on Keith Olberman!
His legacy will never change. I don't think he realizes that. And besides, Jimma Carter, it is the worst.
The more Slick Willy does this the more he sounds like a raving lunatic. As for Richard Clarke, he is another one working on faking a legacy. I watched a documentary with Clarke blaming GWB for not responding to the Cole attack. I seem to remember that the Cole happened on Clinton's watch.
These guys are in a hysterical panic that history will record what really happened and not what they believe happened.
Excellent memory, and strange that nobody on the show recalled that. Perhaps you should e-mail Chris Wallace and point it out.
I vote for the "is lying" part. He's doing his best to confuse the public about the REAL history of what went on. Trying to preserve what little legacy he's got left!
Clinton did the same thing during the Wallace interview.
I think it was the author/ socialite Dorothy Parker who made this remark--a propot of a person in the entertainment biz--that surely applies to BJC: "Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie, including 'a' and 'the.'"
I'd like to see film footage where an actual Conservative ranted about this I don't think i have ever seen ANY Conservative claim this ! I know i heard plenty of them including myself scream about him being a lieing bastard about many things but bin laden was never one of them at least about him obsessing he used bin laden for excuses but never because he was chasing him but to cover up him chasing a skirt !
Wag the Dog arose because of the fact that Clinton bombed the aspirin factory the night before scheduled impeachment vote. The other bombing was in response Iraq's attempt on Geo. H.W. Bush's life when B41 was in Kuwait for a victory lap.
A lot of things, including not wearing long enough socks.
You forgot your "/sarc" tag...
GREAT idea!
Are these guys delusional or liars? Liars don't really believe what they say but delusional people truely believe their distortions.
Clinton, Clarke, Gore, Kerry, Dean and others are approaching a delusional state. They are sounding a lot like David Koresh and Jim Jones in their paranoia of the right.
LOL! That is too funny!
I don't know, but I don't like to see any of them in power.
I think if you do some Googling around you'll find the aspirin factory in Sudan and the two tents and a camel taken out in Afghanistan were also part and parcel of "wagging the dog".
Please prefer not to bring that piece of scum into the conservation by using Pat Buchanan's name.
Why people listen to Buchanan is a complete mystery to me.
Anti America and, anti Israel seems to be all he wants too talk about lately.
Hard for me to believe he was once part of the GOP speech writers.
No you are absolutely correct. I too recall that the original Wag the Dog was the Predator in Chief’s desire to deflect the Monica - Broderick – Willey – Jones – Foster – White Water scandals to name just a few (did I miss any?) by bombing Serbia and taking the media’s attention away from his scandal riddle administration and personally deviant ways by attacking a country who’s affairs and were not in our national interests but would replace his problems and tonight’s big story.
Bin Laden wasn’t even a household name at the time.
This is just Bill’s sorry attempt to reinvent history.
I would have given anything if Chris had immediately referred to the MOnica denial finger wagging TV incident when the sinkEmperor kept wagging his finger at Chris. I can only imagine the vein which would have exploded in that degenerate brain. The alphabet networks are working their sycophantic asses off to rescue the sink's image immediately.
For me, shankbear's tagline says it all. The whole world knew that for months and months Clinton's attention was on wagging something else and not just his finger.
Please compare and contrast with GWB, who does what he thinks is correct, no matter how much flack he gets.
I can remember Ron Kuby on Curtis and Kuby calling for Clinton's impeachment for killing people to move the news cycles away from Monica et al. And Kuby is an unreconstructed commie who opposed Monicagate.
What I will never understand is Clinton's being terrified of the impeachment process. There was never any doubt the House would impeach and even less doubt the Senate would acquit. It was staged like good Japanese Kabuki. Every movement choreographed. Clinton was never in any danger. He created the wag the dog reference for no valuable reason.(see pages 117-120 9/11 Commission Report, authorized edition)
WHatever the meaning is of "IS"...
bttt
Exactly. This is classic Clintoon. The very epitome of why he is despised by every American who is not emotionally and intellectually committed to the democrat party.
Actually the "wag the dog" reference had nothing to do with eiother Bin Laden or Serbia. It was October 1998, during Clinton's deposition, that he carried out a massive attack on IRAQ, and his officials made big noises about a possible invasion of Iraq.
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