Try Comedy Central

While they didn't show the entirety of the interview with Mr. Clinton, The Daily Show on Comedy Central did show the exerpt with Mr. Clinton giving it to Wallace with both barrels. They also showed the grungy underbelly of Fox News and CNN by showing "reporters" who only reported on the fact that Mr. Clinton was "combattive" in the interview. They didn't show the interview, nor did they make commentary on whether or not there was true justification for Mr. Clinton's anger with Wallace.

No, it's not the full interview, but you get the general idea.

I think it's a travesty that Fox News would deny YouTube the right to show the interview. However, it's par for their course. They don't report news. They don't report facts. They don't report, PERIOD!

They spew spin at every turn. They promulgate lies and misinformation because they know (as do all Neo-cons) that the truth will make them look bad.

Comedy Central usually rebroadcasts the previous episode of The Daily Show around six PM Eastern time. You might want to check your cable or satellite for when it will show again. No, it's not the whole interview, but I think you can connect the dots from what is shown.

Blessed be!
Pappy

by Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments) on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 1:29:35 PM
 

Clinton Interview

You can watch the Wallace/Clinton interview here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/24/clinton-video/

by Frank J. Ranelli (66 articles, 143 quicklinks, 29 diaries, 378 comments) on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 1:53:57 PM
 

More of Clinton Interview

You can also watch most of it here:
click here

by Frank J. Ranelli (66 articles, 143 quicklinks, 29 diaries, 378 comments) on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 1:58:16 PM
 

DailyShow doesn't touch substance of Clinton's remarks

I love the Daily Show. Most of the time it cuts closer to the truth than any corporate "news" show, but don't fall into the stooo'pid trap of thinking that it can ever substitute for source information and real journalism like that practiced by Democracy Now!, NOW on PBS, and stories on Media Matters for America.

I love the Daily Show because it regularly transforms sad situations and the foibles of terrible people into reasons for laughter and ridicule instead of just tears and anger. Unfortunately their cut-up bit about the two Bill Clinton's did not do justice to the substantive explanations of the bombing of the USS Cole and the lack of certification from the CIA regarding who was culpable. The righteous anger he expressed at Wallace's one-sided and leading questions was partially portrayed by the Daily Show, but it is instructive for all to see how he was baited by interruptions to raise his voice just so he could finish his responses to the loaded questions.

Go for the sources, dig deeper, ask how they know, ask why, look for the real motivations, and follow the money.

by Tim Riley (7 articles, 5 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 130 comments) on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 4:36:57 PM
 

No kidding!

Boy howdy, I followed the above link to the actual interview (or most of it anyway), and you are SOOOOO right! The Daily Show only got the barest bit of the interview.

Now that I have seen the whole thing, all I can say is, if you mess with the bull, you get the horns! Talk about a set-up job. I am even MORE impressed now than I was in reading the news story, and seeing the bits on The Daily Show.

How on earth could Wallace expect that Mr. Clinton wouldn't slap him down, and with a resounding thud I might add? I think that Mr. Clinton's perception of a "conservative hit job" was right on the money.

Also, I might add, I didn't see the interview as combattive. If anything, I saw it as Wallace thinking he would be able to embarrass Mr. Clinton, and when that tactic didn't work, he tried, as Neo-cons ALWAYS do, to change the subject. If there was any combat at all, it was Wallace trying to combat his way out of hearing the truth. We all know the Neo-cons can't deal with the truth.

The Daily Show, to my mind, is an excellent source for spin removal. I know their primary focus is to lampoon the political scene, but in that lampooning, they sometimes uncover some pretty radical truths. I usually watch ABC evening news, or read Yahoo news (the usual source for articles I quote in my own writings here and on my blog). On rare occasion, I'll flip to CNN Headline News for a quick news fix. Usually when I am there, I am more concerned with the news ticker at the bottom of the screen than I am with the crap that's being said.

Anyway, I still love Bill Clinton, and now that I have seen this interview in a more complete fashion, I can say I have even more love and respect for him.

Blessed be!
Pappy

by Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments) on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 2:00:45 AM
 

They shoulda never messed with the master

While the Clinton years brought us NAFTA, massive welfare cuts that the poor could ill afford and the selling out of the Democratic Party you gotta give old Bill the credit he deserves as a master of the debate.

This also highlights what coulda, should and woulda been done to the GOP neoconservative cause had the gutless democrats campaigned with the truth.

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 8:33:43 PM