Wallace falsehood: Fox asked Bush admin officials "plenty of questions"

[kurth]

In a taped interview with former President Bill Clinton that aired on the September 24 edition of Fox News Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Clinton why he failed to "do more" during his presidency to put Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden "out of business." Clinton responded with a vigorous defense of his administration's anti-terrorism policies, noting that he instituted a "comprehensive anti-terror strategy" during his tenure in the White House and that many conservatives had accused him at the time of being "too obsessed with finding bin Laden." He then told Wallace: "I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you've asked this question of. ... Tell the truth." Wallace replied, "Have you ever watched Fox News Sunday, sir? ... We ask plenty of questions." Clinton later stated, "ou people ask me questions you don't ask the other side," to which Wallace responded, "That is not true." In fact, in dozens of interviews over the past five years with senior Bush aides, Wallace and former host Tony Snow have repeatedly failed to ask pressing questions regarding the Bush administration's efforts to pursue Al Qaeda in the eight months prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- and in the years since.

Here is a list of senior Bush administration officials interviewed on Fox News Sunday since September 11, 2001. (White House press secretary Tony Snow previously hosted the program. Wallace succeeded him in December 2003.):

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; 9/10/06
National Security adviser Stephen Hadley; 8/6/06
Rice; 7/16/06
Rice; 6/4/06
Rice; 5/21/06
Rice; 3/26/06
Rice; 12/18/05
Hadley; 12/4/05
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld; 11/20/05
Rice; 10/16/05
Rumsfeld; 6/26/05
Rice; 6/19/05
Hadley; 5/15/05
Then-White House chief of staff Andrew Card; 5/1/05
Rumsfeld; 3/20/05
Hadley; 3/13/05
Vice President Dick Cheney; 2/6/05
Rice; 1/30/05
Rice (then-National Security adviser); 10/10/04
Rice; 6/27/04
Rice; 6/6/04
Rice; 4/18/04
Rumsfeld; 3/28/04
Card; 12/7/03
Rumsfeld; 11/2/03
Rice; 9/28/03
Rice; 9/7/03
Rice; 7/13/03
Rumsfeld; 5/4/03
Rumsfeld; 3/30/03
Rice; 2/16/03
Card; 1/26/03
Rumsfeld; 1/19/03
Rice; 11/10/02
Rice; 9/15/02
Card; 6/9/02
Rice; 5/26/02
Cheney; 5/19/02
Rice; 5/5/02
Card; 4/14/02
Rice; 2/3/02
Cheney; 1/27/02
Rumsfeld; 11/11/01

In the March 28, 2004, interview with Rumsfeld, Wallace did press him on whether the Department of Defense should have "been thinking more about" terrorism prior to 9-11... But beyond this exchange, the Fox News Sunday interviews listed above have almost entirely ignored several key questions regarding the Bush administration's efforts to pursue bin Laden and Al Qaeda...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609240002

[IChing]

1. Fox questions are like this.

George Bush?
Great President or just the Greatest ever?

[luckyleftyme2]

3. WHAT A JOKE

fox is so far right it can't get it's head out of "dubya's " backers money chest.
dubya was on vacation almost as much as he was working when 911 happened.
and his administration was talking (slipping hints) that iraq was a target.and this was before 911. do a little research at the libary for news in august of 2oo1. see some of the questions put to chenny and powell before 911 about iraq.
then see how many times these questions were asked in november and dec of 2001!
if your gonna comment -tell it all!

MIS-INFORMATION=BOTH BUSH'S FORTE.
AS FAR AS A GREAT PRESIDENT GOES=HE'S THE GREATEST SPENDER WE'VE EVER HAD,BUT THE TRUTH IS WE CAN'T AFFORD HIM!

[Loge23]

2. The times in which we live

When the most recent former president calls out a supposed journalist for doing "the bidding" of the current administration and it's supporters doesn't that say everything about what we've become in the US?
We are front row witnesses to incredible times right now.
Where this all goes is anyone's guess, but it has this is simply fascinating.

[hippiechick]

4. Not a falsehood, just a deception ...

... I'm sure they did ask 'plenty of questions' ... just that they were all softballs totally unrelated to the real issues at hand.

:puke:

[delete_bush]

5. It's our fault.

Had enough of us emailed Little Wally the appropriate question, it would have been asked, for this is how REAL reporters prepare for an big interview. Really.