"I did not have sexual relations with that woman" - Part Deux

Have you seen this yet?

When I first heard the audio to this (absent the video), I thought, hey, he's passionately defending himself, something I'd like to see President Bush do more of.

Then I saw the video.  And it was deja vu all over again.  The finger wagging, the turned head, the denial... yea, definitely deja vu:

Is there anything more to say?  Of course there is.

From Michelle:

On Fox and Friends this morning, Chris Wallace had some interesting comments about his interview with the Finger-Jabber:

His reaction to Clinton accusing him of having a "smirk:"

"What it was was sheer wonder at what I was witnessing."

Heh. On what happened after the interview:

"There was no making up with him. He was angry. And when he left, he chewed out his staff."

The Finger-Jabber. Always, always blaming someone else for his failures.

Via PJMedia, Michael Rule quotes terrorism analyst Michael Schueur from this morning's CBS's "Early Show":

"The president seems to be able, the former president seems to be able to deny facts with impugnity. Bin Laden is alive today because Mr. Clinton, Mr. Sandy Berger, and Mr. Richard Clarke refused to kill him. That's the bottom line. And every time he says what he said to Chris Wallace on Fox, he defames the CIA especially, and the men and women who risk their lives to give his administration repeated chances to kill bin Laden."

Even liberals are piling on:

So Bill Clinton was sandbagged by Chris Wallace. By Chris Wallace? And he lost it. And he wasted a television appearance - when he could have been talking about taking back Congress - talking about (no surprise) Bill Clinton. Poor Bill Clinton. The victim of Fox News, the media arm of the right-wing conspiracy. The man who went after Bin Laden and was accused of wagging the dog. "I tried," he said. I tried? How lame is that? I haven't been able to listen to that since the sixties, when Werner Erhard, of all people, became famous for demolishing that excuse. When people said "I tried" to Werner Erhard, he would put a glass on a table and say to them, "Try to pick that up."

How does it happen? How does one of the smartest men ever elected president end up sandbagged by Chris Wallace? Is this what one docudrama does to the guy? I don't think so. I'm afraid this is classic Clinton, Clinton the monologist, Clinton the guy who used to keep his White House houseguests up until 4 a.m. while he went on and on about what the press was doing to him. What a waste. On top of which: Clinton calls George Bush "43"? Is he so confused about his role in the Bush family constellation that he has adopted their nicknames for one another?

And finally, from The Instapundit, the line that best summarizes the entire event:

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Bill Clinton has managed to get everybody talking about him again. Welcome back, Bill!

Heh.  Indeed.

UPDATE: The Anchoress focuses on a lie told too many are ignoring:

One of the quotes I had missed before reading the transcript of Bill Clinton’s spontaneous (or maybe not so spontaneous) rage-fest this weekend was the former president saying “now, I have never criticized President Bush…”

Which is just too funny, because he has done it before both foreign and domestic audiences - in fact it was his criticisms of Bush just about a year ago (again, during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Publicity Rounds) that inspired this piece, which I’m reposting, partly because my schedule is jammed, but also because I think it’s interesting in light of the Wallace interview, and Keith Olbermann’s wet-eyed, near orgasmic, shuddery interview (including CGI donation) with the former president.

It's all good.  See for yourself.

Comments

[Marc V]

If he has a difficult time defining "is", how can he be expected to understand how to define "criticize"? I'm sure he would say that he was not criticizing "43", just questioning some of his policies. I wonder if Papa Bush ("41") will be spending any more time with Slick Willie.

I hope some of this will have a backlash negative effect on Hillary's aspirations, though some folks may just shake their head and feel sorry for her having him for a husband (not that they have anything resembling/modeling a typical marriage).