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"I Failed"
Amid Clinton-Wallace babble, 2 words get lostWithin 24 hours of Bill Clinton's public paddling on Sunday of Chris Wallace on the Fox News Channel, pundits, politicians and a salivating army of miked-and-ready windbags had already meticulously sliced and diced the conversation to within an inch of its life, exercising the kind of analytic fervor customarily reserved for the text of a newly uncovered gospel. Hard-core conservatives claimed that Clinton's meltdown was carefully preplanned and cagily calculated, a September Surprise orchestrated solely to pump up the Democratic Party while setting the stage for his wife's much-rumored run for the White House. Perennial presidential adviser David Gergen, meanwhile, couldn't restrain a slight smile as he told CNN's Anderson Cooper that Clinton's touchiness was understandable, given Wallace's insinuation that Sept. 11, 2001, could be laid at Clinton's feet. Gergen also noted that Clinton's performance in the Fox faceoff was just the kind of lesson in counterpunching that could inspire Democrats this campaign season. And over in the blogosphere, Arianna Huffington split the difference. Applauding Clinton for tossing obvious Republican National Committee talking points back in Wallace's face, she also gave the 42nd president a nice "it's-about-time" jab in the ribs. "That bipartisan love-in he's been engaged in over the last several years," wrote Huffington, "has resulted in jack-squat." Posted by: Thesing Unavise4426 2006-09-27 |
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