[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
Do you think more people watched it than would have watched it without the hissy fit? Significantly more? I sure do.[/quote]
Looking at the relatively poor ratings, I doubt it. But assuming you are right – how did the hissy fit change the way the extra audience read it?
[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
Of course, this is aside from the main point of my statement, which is that the mockumentary, and more particularly the hissy fit, made it so Wallace’s question was newsworthy today.[/quote]
As I said before, I do not believe that is relevant at all – if indeed the explosion was calculated, it just makes Clinton look smarter…
You don’t see me accusing Wallace of any wrongdoing – in fact, I can only thank him.
[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
I think the point President Clinton was attempting to make was that he was criticized for paying too much attention to bin Laden by all those “right wingers.”[/quote]
Where were you at the time? I mean, do you need me to go dig up old transcripts from Republican speeches? You don’t remember them from memory? I know you were very young at the time, but young people usually have very good memory…
[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
However, that wasn’t the point of the actual criticism – it was that the Bush administration, upon taking office, thought his focus was too much on bin Laden and not enough on the rogue states.[/quote]
That was how Clarke presented it in 2002, clearly for the GOP’s political purposes. That was not what was said before (during the actual Clinton years) OR in Clarke’s book.
[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
This also is not good evidence for the idea that “right wingers” attacked him while he was President for going after bin Laden.[/quote]
So you seem to be developing amnesia, since I clearly remember what the right wing was saying at the time.
[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
Not really – one of his main points was that the “right wingers” had criticized him for being “bin Laden obsessed” while he was going after bin Laden during his Presidency. But there’s no evidence this is true[/quote]
So you claim that there’s no evidence by using a specific search engine with a VERY specific word? Has it occurred to you that the actual wording was slightly different and he was just paraphrasing?