Wallace vs. Clinton

Dallas Morning News | Mark Davis:

“ I don't mean to spoil an entire week of multilayered analysis, but the Bill Clinton spectacle over the weekend on Fox News Sunday comes down to one simple thing: once a bully, always a bully.”

Ed Cognoski responds:

He's talking about right wing Fox News hack Chris Wallace, right? When a Democrat stands up to the right wing revisionist propagandists, it drives the knee jerk conservatives wild. What's their response?

Mark Davis tries to turn the focus away from President Clinton's charges and towards President Clinton himself, calling him names. In fact, President Clinton spoke truth. The incoming Bush administration dropped the ball in the handoff of ongoing anti-terrorism efforts. National security advisor Richard Clarke, who served in both administrations, has admitted just that. President Bush had other priorities, namely tax cuts and, as we later learned to our regret, an obsession with Saddam Hussein.

That President Clinton's charges have merit was made evident when the administration unleashed no less than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice herself to defend the administration's inept anti-terror policy pre-9/11. And her defense amounted to a claim that this is all old news and it was time to move on. In other words, a non-defense defense.

So, Mr Davis wants to attack the messenger and Secretary Rice wants to move on. Neither wants America to face the truth. President Clinton isn't having it.