TV Alert: Richard Clarke on Charlie Rose

[Renew Deal]

Might be different in other markets.

[Tactical Progressive]

1. This makes two Clark's I'm really liking this election season n/t.

[wtf]

3. Is there anywhere

I can view this live on the web, or archived after it's over? Thanks!

[Tactical Progressive]

5. Maybe the PBS website

www.pbs.org

or maybe your local affiliate, like www.wnet.org (NYC) or www.wgbh.org (Boston).

[Renew Deal]

2. Doing Hamas bombimg first.

[Tactical Progressive]

4. BushCo deciding not to push Mid-East mediation

turned out to be a pretty bad move.

[revcarol]

6. Dunno about that.

Anything that he touches turns to s***. Probably would have made the situation even worse.

although I can't imagine "worse."

[kentuck]

9. But he's still got his 'roadmap"....

He just folded it up all wrong...

[yardwork]

21. ROTFL!!!

* trying to fold up his Middle East roadmap.....

[Sugarbleus]

24. hahahahahahahahh good shot! n/t

[Renew Deal]

7. kick

:kick:

[sadiesworld]

8. Charlie Rose...

Just egotistical enough not to follow the party spin. Thank Zeus.

[buycitgo]

10. are you serious? did you see Kissinger on last week?

think he asked him if he regularly consults his lawyers before he travels overseas, just to make sure he's not on that particular destination's updated most wanted list?]

he tongue-kisses that monster's ASS every time he's on, which is every month or so, I'll bet

[sadiesworld]

13. I'll stand corrected...but, Clarke is getting some good stuff out there.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. Charlie Rose is a Republican and he kisses Republican ass

he is very confrontational with his liberal guests and gives monsters like Kissinger a free pass.

[buycitgo]

18. got that right....even worse stuff here about that tool

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1269994

[kaitykaity]

19. Thanks.

I've been looking for just such dirt.

[fairfaxvadem]

12. wow, wow, wow...

Richard Clarke just said there were a lot of urban myths about Clinton, including the one that Clinton turned down an offer to hav bin Laden handed over...URBAN MYTH!!!

This is an incredible interview....

[buycitgo]

14. funny you should mention that

from.........here!

"Back in 1996 Osama bin Laden was living in Sudan, a notorious sponsor of international terrorism. Because of their terrorist tendancies, the United States had a trade embargo with Sudan. A freelancer named Mansoor Ijaz (if the name sounds at all familiar I'll explain what happened to him at the end of this) came to the Clinton White House claiming to be working for the Sudanese Government. He claimed that Sudan was willing to hand over Osama bin laden.

He met with former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and it didn't take long to figure out this guy was a phoney. Ijaz was trying to get the embargo and trade restrictions on Sudan lifted, because he had investments in Sudanese Oil. Ignoring Ijaz, the Clinton White House tried everything they could to convince the Sudanese government to hand over Osama bin Laden. Sudan wouldn't bite, though they would later kick him out of the country.

Mansoor Ijaz later got a job as a foreign affairs correspondent with Fox News Channel. Happy ending for everyone involved except the three thousand victims of 9-11, America in general, and innocent civilians who were killed in the wars happening because of 9-11."

thanks, Neo Progressive!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x7778#8606

[fairfaxvadem]

15. well, it gets even deeper...

Clarke is talking about the "vulcan" group of Bush's foreign affairs specialists that were prepping him prior to entering the White House and who subsequently become Admin officials......

He is just letting it rip.

Just said "why are they denying the obvious?" That is, the WH and their pursuit of Iraq since day one.

[sadiesworld]

16. Erase all. Rose is an unredeemable whore. Clarke rocks.

[milkyway]

17. Thank you, Richard Clarke! "Howard Dean was right when he said

America is not safer with the capture of Saddam. Dean got in a lot of trouble for it, but he was right."

Also, Clarke says bush* pointed a finger in his face and strongly told him "Iraq, I want to know about Iraq." (paraphrasing) Clarke says he and his staff were intimidated, and strongly got the message bush* wanted a memo saying Iraq was connected to 9/11.

This guy will be remembered by history as a true American hero.

[eleny]

28. Even though Clarke doesn't seem like he'd be easily intimidated

...from all I've read about Bush in various books, his likable image is a veneer. It's plausible that he'd stick his finger in Clarke's face and demand whatever.

Rose isn't on here for another 1/2 hour. I'm glad for this thread. Looks like I'm in for a treat with this "straight-talking" Clarke. There's something believable about a guy like him with his background being honest about feeling intimidated. He seems fearless. So the shrub must be a total bastard under the mask. I wonder if * and Laura have had some real howlers after a few belts of vitamin V-O. I've always wondered about the fight that may have led to the major bruise on his cheek.

[FlemingsGhost]

20. Ahem... I'm not above saying:

Told ya so! (post #7)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1268025

[buycitgo]

22. just started in Chicago, if anyhone's here from, uh, there

channel 20, PBS, UHF

dunno what cable channel for those who have different ones than mine

[buycitgo]

23. watching now......Clarke is MESMERIZING

much better here than on sixty minutes

he needs to get out and on TV EVERYWHERE!

[revcarol]

25. I guess I should stay up...

Charlie Rose is an arrogant dork...but I missed 60 Minutes, so I gotta see this guy.

[buycitgo]

27. if you're in Chicago, it's on tomorrow at 5PM

I'm going to tape it

he REALLY needs to get on all the shows

you LISTENING, potato boy?

do your best Ed Gillespie on him....he'll fricking EAT you alive!

[Sugarbleus]

26. Waaaaaaaaaaaa can't get it anywhere.....I'm on west coast maybe

I just missed it somehow? I've got PBS on but nothing there.

*I wish DU had a jumping mad smilie* lol

[Gloria]

29. Oh, gosh, this is incredible.....

He said Clinton did a lot considering Al-Q hadn't done much to us...

said the only reason he didn't bomb the camps in Afghanistan (and was targeting Bin Laden instead) was because the media and the opposition were saying he shouldn't do it, it would be WAGGING THE DOG.

Clinton was "damned if he did and damned if he didn't."

Also talking about Tenet...Rose is going bananas about how amazing it is that Tenet saw Bush every day...and Clarke says Tenet pushed Al-Qaeda...it's a missing link for Rose......the implication that Bush was being informed and basically blew it off...

Prime quotes:
THEY BLEW IT...after 911 to finally get Bin Laden

THEY WERE DOING NOTHING

A FLEETING INTEREST (Bush asked for a strategy, but never followed up...a plan got to him after 911)

THE BIGGEST FOREIGN POLICY MISTAKE SINCE VIET NAM, "WITHOUT A DOUBT"

[Trajan]

30. The Vulcans ?? ...

PNAC called themselves "The Vulcans" ? ...

How droll ....

[LastDemocratInSC]

31. This is very, very intense

Finally, an interviewer who knows how to draw out reality from his guest. I'm not a big fan of Charlie Rose because he tosses softballs way, way too often, but he is asking the right questions tonight.

If the job of an interviewer / reporter is to ask the questions that his viewers / readers would want to ask, and to insist on getting the answers to those questions, Charlie Rose has done his job very well tonight. I applaud him.

Clarke just said that the White House had the book for months and held if for months. It's their fault it came out in this point in the political year.

Way, way too much to type here ... We need to get a transcript of this interview - it is so awesome. Does anyone know how to get a transcript?

This is just awesome, and very intense.

[buycitgo]

34. absolutely agree with you on rose

after saying earlier what a hoor he usually is

he was actually pretty good, and not as intrusive, to me, as he was for others here.

he actually fleshed out his longer questions, in order that clarke could more specifically tailor his answers, doncha think?

no problems with Charlie here at all tonight

his devil's advocacy was a help, not a hindrance

will tape tomorrow and give some exapmles

not sure about transcript availability

[Trajan]

32. Clarke is DEVASTATING ....

He is pulling NO punches ....

Fucking amazing ....

[LastDemocratInSC]

33. Sliced, diced, basted and baked

Clarke just destroyed any credibility Bush and his creeps have. This was the most intense half-hour of television I have ever seen.

I hope all of you saw it as well.

We need to get the transcript ... does anyone know how to do so?

[Stephanie]

36. transcript info:

Wow! Sorry I missed this!

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To Order Transcripts please call 1-800-759-3907

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[CatWoman]

46. Stephanie

Charlie also archives his shows:

http://www.charlierose.com/archives/archive.shtm

[G_j]

35. he had a solid response for every WH

allegation. He said the book could have come out months ago. I was taping it but the tape ran out. :-(

[struggle4progress]

37. That was a great answer!

Either *&co is in real trouble and just spewing out whatever comes to mind or else they figure not enough folks will ever know.

[G_j]

38. thats what I'm afraid of

that many people do not pay enough attention. Too bad it has nothing to do with sex, that would get their attention.

[Lindsay]

39. Clarke was absolutely outstanding.

Please...if you have a chance to see a re-run, do yourself a favor and watch.

He said he won't publicly support Kerry because he's non-partisan and because that's what the WH is waiting for, so they can accuse him of just playing politics.

So fine...just let his statements stand on their own. Probably more devastating that way, WH spin notwithstanding.

[Ksec]

40. I concur

He did well and he is nothing like freepers have been smearing today.

[G_j]

41. Hans Blix

can't overlook what Hans has been talking about lately, another well spoken and credible personality.

This is a fine interview. Highly recommended!
http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?displayValue=day&todayDate=03/17/2004

In his new book, Disarming Iraq, Blix writes about what happened in the months leading up to the war in Iraq last year. Blix, formerly the head of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, has been named chairman of the newly formed International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction, which began its work in January 2004

[DeepModem Mom]

42. kick

[G_j]

43. kick

[revcarol]

44. Rose tried to back Clarke into a corner about twenty times

and Clarke escaped each time, and added to his credibility by defusing most of the repug smears in advance.

And DON"T tell me that Rose just brought up those things to be the devil's advocate. He's too much of a shill for republicans.

Verrrry good. Glad I stayed up.

[Catherine Vincent]

45. I missed the first few minutes of it but Clarke was very good.

He didn't stumble once and Rose was trying so hard to get him to stumble. I should have taped it, it was excellent. I never thought I would like a republican.