This interview has gained some traction, and is sparking some intense political bashing.
Wallace-Clinton Fox News Sunday interview transcript:
Fox News Sunday, Interview With President Bill Clinton, 9/22/06
Here's a video, although it's chopped up a bit from the transcript:
Video: Clinton vs. Wallace on “Fox News Sunday”
It looks like you can watch the whole thing on Fox's site as well, but good luck finding it on their home page.
Wallace on the interview, with video:
Video: Fox News hypes 'heated' Clinton interview: 'You'll see the good, the bad and the ugly'
Thinkprogress on whether Wallace ever asked other administration officials about Clarke or the USS Cole:
Chris Wallace Never Asked A Bush Administration Official Why They Demoted Richard Clarke
Chris Wallace Has Never Asked A Bush Administration Official About The USS Cole
A link from Michelle Malkin's site claiming the opposite:
Patterico’s Pontifications » Chris Wallace Has Indeed Grilled Bush Officials About Failing to Get Osama Before 9/11
I can't wait until the future, when the AI inside Google will automatically do fact checking and cross-referencing for you. We can't be that far away; after all, Dvorak thinks we should already have computers that do perfect translation. I mean, how hard can it be?
Updated
This may be what Clinton was expecting (from 9/18/06):
John Stewart interviews former President Bill Clinton
Here's what I think about the Wallace interview:
-Wallace didn't think he was going to spark such an emotional reaction, and that he thought it was a legitimate question.
-The question was biased. "Why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them out of business?" should have been, "Critic xyz claims you could have done more to capture Bin Laden, do you feel this is true?"
-Wallace was unprepared: he didn't know his facts, and he forgot or underestimated the former president's spinaptitude and intelligence.
-It's unfortunate that news interviews don't throw out more hardball questions. Unfortunately, if Clinton had expected that kind of question, he wouldn't have shown.
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