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Wow, Fox put quite the hit on former President Clinton. The article I linked to has a 20-minute segment of video from the Fox News Sunday program where they promise to spend half of the time asking Clinton about his recent fundraising initiatives for stuff like stopping global warming, and then half of the time for any other question.

So what they do instead is to ask 2 or 3 questions about his fundraising efforts. The questions were short, and had short answers. They then immediately ask a multipart question summing up to, “Why didn’t you do more to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden while you were President?”

He then interrupts Clinton as Clinton tries to answer the question so that he can really jab in every. Single. Failure. That Clinton was responsible (or in office) for.

Clinton does a good job defending himself, but why are peoples’ memories so short? Most Americans were adults when Clinton was in office. Weren’t they paying attention then?

They ask him about Somalia, why did he pull troops out, although he apparently made the country pissed off by not pulling out fast enough. They ask him about the embassy bombings and the U.S.S. Cole, why didn’t you kill bin Laden then, as if they had never seen the movie Wag the Dog.

And the thing that really irks me is that the interviewers is practically falling out of his chair with a smirk so wide it’s silly the whole time. He interrupts Clinton constantly near the end, as apparently Clinton is answering his question too well. Where do people learn these kind of manners? How do supposedly professional news organizations find these guys?

It’d be one thing if the person you were interviewing were trying to evade your question, to interrupt him and try to lead things back on track. But this guy was trying to derail Clinton as he was answering the question!

I mean, I guess it doesn’t compare to the CNN anchor who drove a woman to kill herself over such an abusive interview, but still.

Other cool news stories: Apparently Rev. Falwell believes that Republican voters would rather have Satan himself in office than Hillary Clinton. I suppose that says enough about the party faithful. Oh, and the IRS is trying to strip a church of its tax-exempt status because of a anti-war sermon it delivered before the last Presidential election.

I can’t wait until people aren’t constantly driven by trying to bring good people down. I just don’t think I’ll live to see that happen. :-(

Oh, and in a week I get to check into my boat and start the process of qualifying (again and again and again). :)

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