What I saw wasn't a debate, it was Clinton filibustering. He didn't take Wallace apart, far from it. He looked like a rank amatuer who was out to make a big score on Fox and rip the network up and down. He was prepared to say exactly everything he said. He didn't even need Wallace to ask a question.
He did not come across with any dignity or statesmanship that you would expect from a former president. No surprise though, he never treated the office as anything special when he held it. Think about any other former president making such a red-faced spectacle of himself. and he was concerned that Chris was smirking at him? Oh too bad, the former president let an interviewer's smirk get to him.
If he had all the facts on his side he could have just engaged Wallace and answered the questions matter of factly. the reason he can't try that approach, he doesn't have facts on his side and it hurts him so he points and jabs his finger 100 times and talks about media conspiracies as if that somehow makes him correct.
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