By now, everyone must have seen Chris Wallace’s interview with Bill Clinton on “Fox News Sunday” last week. If not, go online and watch the interview or read the transcript. I recommend watching the video because seeing Clinton’s nonverbal communication – especially when he invades Wallace’s personal space and pokes him with his finger more than a dozen times – will remind you of the type of character Clinton is.
The interview was Clinton’s first ever one-on-one with “Fox News Sunday.” Wallace asked legitimate questions that were submitted by viewers. Rather than provide simple, honest answers, Clinton invoked the infamous liberal tactics of elusion, deflection and dishonesty. Some of Clinton’s answers were vague, others redirected faults toward “President Bush’s right-wingers” and “neo-cons,” as Clinton stated, and other answers contradicted reality.
Wallace even attempted to bring the conversation back to the topic of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), but Clinton refused to discuss his supposed philanthropic efforts any further. He found it more important to talk about how his main objective was dealing with Osama bin Laden and the vast right-wing conspiracy to curtail his endeavors while he was president is still alive today.
As expected, Clinton’s timeline tale of his presidency was replete with paradoxes. The chronology was somewhat accurate, but he lacked facts. First, he said that “all the right-wingers” argued that he did not do enough about bin Laden. Next, he claimed the Republicans complained he was too obsessed with bin Laden and spent too much time working on bin Laden’s capture. Then, he stated that no one even knew about bin Laden or al-Qaeda until his latter term. Finally, Clinton stated that he “authorized the CIA to get groups together to try to kill” bin Laden. Witnessing Clinton’s dance around the questions, the classic left-wing shuffle, should come as no surprise. That is how the left answers.
Now for the truth. Not “all” Republicans were against Clinton while he was president. He successfully passed the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) while plenty of Republicans were in Congress. With respect to Republican complaints about Clinton’s bin Laden obsession, not one Republican from the 103rd to the 106th Congresses (all during Clinton’s years) made any such comment. It would have been impossible anyway, Republicans do not complain. Furthermore, if no one knew about bin Laden, then no one could have possibly opposed Clinton’s obsessive efforts.
Once he finally discovered that there was a bin Laden, Clinton refused bin Laden’s extradition from Sudan to the U.S. in 1996, and he refused an offer to have bin Laden captured and extradited from Saudi Arabia in 2000. These are not fabrications, not part of the vast right-wing conspiracy, only facts from left-wing sources such as the Los Angeles Times.
Wallace made more than one attempt to allow Clinton to discuss tenets of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI.) It would have been appropriate because the CGI includes a solution to global warming, especially because the left wing is so adamant that President Bush is to blame for it. Let’s analyze this. Former presidential candidate Al Gore claims to have known about global warming 30 years ago. Gore was Clinton’s right-hand man.
Long before the CGI was in existence, the Kyoto Protocol was introduced to the world to curb global warming. Clinton and Gore verbally praised the Kyoto Protocol, yet Clinton never sent it to the Senate for ratification. They also both knew that Bush would win both the 2000 and 2004 elections. Thus, they had to set him up. By avoiding to engage the U.S. in preventative measures on one of the left’s paramount concerns, global warming, the left secured their future opportunities to blame global warming, Hurricane Katrina and somehow, OBL’s existence- all on Bush. Does that sound like a conspiracy?
Something must have backfired on the left, which is not particularly good for them since Nov. 7 is just a month away. The stock market broke all-time record highs last week. Oil prices are lower and still declining. New home purchases are still increasing. And, the New Orleans Saints won their first game played at The Louisiana Superdome last Monday. How do you explain that? Well, our president was obviously too busy dining with Condoleezza Rice and the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan to utilize his global warming superpower to create another hurricane and send it to Louisiana to take out more black people (thank you Kanye West, Al Gore and the rest of the left wing.)
What is interesting, but not at all alarming, is that the left wing and the media (sometimes synonymous) equally share hypocrisy. Hurricane season is not over, but Bush has not been thanked for preventing hurricanes from hitting Louisiana a year after he was blamed for Katrina. Gas prices are lower, but Bush, Dick Cheney and Halliburton are not being praised. They are only blamed for increases in prices and OPEC decisions. To whom, or what, do we owe thanks for overlooking Bush’s good deeds that deserve applause? Answer: to the mass left-wing delinquency. It is prevalent, proliferating, propagating and it can be found present in a lefty near you.
Since the left is so steadfast in insisting that right-wing conspiracies are responsible for ousting Clinton from office, the creation of global warming, the Sept. 11 attacks (in which no planes were used), going to Iraq and Afghanistan, disenfranchising democratic constituents’ by sending over a hurricane and subsequently bombing the levies, I leave you with something that was not trumpeted by the media. Conspiracy or not? You decide.
On Feb. 28, 2006, Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who was imprisoned at The Hague for war crimes, subpoenaed Clinton to testify on his behalf. Milosevic was only 64, had been on trial for more than four years and was in good health. On March 11, 2006, less than two weeks after submitting the subpoena to Clinton, Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his prison cell.
Mike Pascale, Jr. is a senior political science major and a copy editor for the Daily Forty-Niner.
