Since when?

The Washington Post is wrong. I've never seen Wallace be anything but a Fox conservative commentator. And he has publicly said that his father has "lost it" and that the family was "going to have a competency hearing soon" because the elder Wallace had criticized Bush and the war in Iraq. That's not just wildly partisan, it's downright icky from a family privacy standpoint.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609240002

He got credit for a lot of things that were coincidental to his presidency, like the long sustained economic boom. And he gave great hunks of our country away to people who are clearly self-serving heartless bastards.

But comparison to the buffoons in charge now will make anyone look good. I actually felt sympathy and respect for Clinton. For the first time ever.

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Why did you feel the need to shit on Clinton in the explicatory paragraph?

He clearly had valid points in both questioning the question and answering the question. He stayed on point, and responded intelligently and articulately. He made Wallace look like the faux-journalist he is, and he rightly called Fox out on their duplicity.

Why would you belittle Clinton in this context? What audience were you speaking to?

I'm sure we can all learn to remember how much the Republicans loved Clinton, and how he had their support in times of danger.

Or maybe not. HTML is more malleable than stone. How about making up for your knee-jerk by linking to someone who's done some work on the subject:

http://salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/09/25/clinton_2/index.html

An interesting thing is happening on Youtube with clips of this interview.

FOX is forcing the removal of any copies of this interview with titles or commentary either supportive of Clinton or criticizing FOX. It is saying that the clips have been used without their permission.

However, clips that have titles or commentary critical of Clinton or supportive of FOX news have been left up. Appparently, FOX has no problem with these clips staying on the site. The two videos currently in 1st and 2nd place on the most viewed list are two such videos.

What does this mean? Is FOX just hand picking which posters it will allow to show the videos? Or are they actually posting their own versions of the interview with their own commentary, and preventing any other versions from being seen?

It is amazing and amusing to see some supposedly "liberal" pundits belittling Clinton's confrontation with Wallace. I found Mr. Clinton's responses actually rather restrained, considering the, yes, smirking Mr. Wallace's efforts at performing his obviously assigned job of re-writing history.

While, in the 1990's, I was not particularly a Clinton fan, I am cursed with a memory of some of those events, and I distinctly recall vitriolic efforts by Republicans, mired in their Monica Lewinsky gossip, to prevent any significant efforts by Clinton to attack bin Laden, and to respond effectively to various foreign crises in Mogadishu as well as in the Balkans. The current effort by Republicans and the Murdoch-dominated media to re-write history, blaming Clinton for failing to go after Al Qaeda, is utter nonsense, indeed, malicious nonsense.

Mr. Bush et al emphatically dismissed anything the Clinton Administration had been doing, whether it was responding to terrorism or negotiating with North Korea, or reducing the deficit; such efforts were tainted by being associated with Clinton. If anyone is responsible for allowing 9/11 to happen, if has to be Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney. Their frantic efforts to palm off blame says it all: the neocons know in their hearts the guilt is theirs and, like the spoiled little adolescent rich kids they are, they seek to escape retribution.

I find it incredibly sickening that once again, the Republicans/conservatives/nut jobs are showing their all too common hypocritic, two faced sides in regards to President Clinton's passion. The man was set-up by FOX, and Chris Wallace had the nerve to ask Clinton such a ridiculous question that, as Clinton pointed out, is ONLY on the minds of 30% of Americans BECAUSE of FOX's lies and twisted misinformation. What Clinton did was a long time coming. It was nice to see someone finally hand FOX's ass to itself.

The fact that most of the media decided to ignore the actual content of what was said and focus on the "passionate tone" of the former president is in itself, disgusting and reasures us all that indeed, we are still victims of deception, refusing to believe facts, allowing ourselves to be manipulated to the point where we, as a nation, will metaphorically 'wake up one day to find blood on our own hands'.