Monday, September 25, 2006

The Take on Slick W's Finger-Wag

Chris Wallace's interview with ex-POTUS and current rock star William Jefferson Clinton is now a matter of public record and public discourse.

To those like gentle reader Micah who feel that Clinton did his best to get Osama and has been mischaracterized by right-wing opponents, we urge a reading of Howard Kurtz, who does media and politics at WaPo, and Byron York, White House correspondent for the National Review.

The former is no right-winger, but he happily chronicles Chris Wallace's innocence of the charge of "right-wing hit job." The latter relies not on his own avowedly partisan evaluation but the sympathetic chronicle of Richard Clarke, Clinton national security staffer famous for resigning in protest from the Bush administration. Per Clarke, Clinton avoided confronting the military about its Osamic recalcitrance, to put it mildly.

Note well what we say here: neither President and neither party was sufficiently active against Islamofascism before 9/11. What bugs us and others on this score is not Clinton's failure but his incessant self-righteous posturing and self-serving, moralistic accusations against anyone who disagrees with him or suggests that he might have been less than fully correct about everything. He lacks standing on such matters.

Or more simply, we remember seeing that fat finger wagging at the camera when Clinton was in office, and it makes the same impression now that it did then.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"his incessant self-righteous posturing and self-serving, moralistic accusations against anyone who disagrees with him or suggests that he might have been less than fully correct about everything... "

Sounds like someone else we all know.

Anonymous said...

I resemble that remark!