Wesley Clark puts the smackdown on Fox News

[XPav]

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player.html?4908&FOX_News_Live&Setting%20the%20Record%20Straight&wvx-300

[Matthew Gallant]

It just shows an ad for a Fox News special on education over and over again.

[XPav]

Its working here.

He's pissed.


Fox: On Meet the Press you said the following: "President Bush has said [the war in Iraq] is the centerpiece for the war on terror. It isn't. It's a sideshow. It's simply their easiest means of access to attack American soldiers. That's all it is."

Do you really think Iraq is only a sideshow?

Clark: The war on terror is a terrible distraction. We should have gone directly after Osama bin Laden....We should be putting a full court press on finding Osama bin Laden....

Fox: While our men and women are dying in Iraq, is it proper to call it a sideshow?

Clark: Our men and women in Iraq are doing a fabulous job....Don't you dare twist my words into disrespect for our men and women in uniform....You better take my words the right way....

He cuts off the smarmy Fox host and everything.

[Angie Gallant]

That's a big part of why I like Clark so much. I am tired of weak Democrats who are willing to let people steamroll them in the interest in looking polite.

[electragician]

Thank god we found all Iraq's WMDs and the terrorists that helped with the attacks on the World Trade Center though. We'd really have mud on our faces if we hadn't.

Oh, wait...

[bmulligan]

He cuts of a smarmy fox news host for questioning his own words?

Then he denies saying exactly what he's just said?
Man this guy really did go to the Democrat School of Campaign Management, and graduated with honors!

What a bunch of crap. He may as well just puffed out his chest and said 'put-em-up.....I need more air time'......

[steve]

[quote="bmulligan"]He cuts of a smarmy fox news host for questioning his own words?[/qoute]
Actually, it was for taking them out of context. Pulling out one sentence, while removing everything around that quote which explained why he felt the war was a sideshow, was pretty lame.

[mtkafka]

At least Clark didn't pussy out of Vietnam and snort some lines with daddies money.

etc

[bmulligan]

actually, it was taking the comment out of sequence. If you read what he said, it's hard to argue any other implication of the sideshow comment. The context or more specifically, the connotation of the comment didnt change by isolating it.

[Jakub]

I can't believe you guys are arguing with the most blatant troll on these forums :)

[Anders Hallin]

Well, I haven't seen the clip, but he doesn't seem to deny having called it a sideshow. He seems to be upset Fox is trying to make it sound that that statement has anything at all to do with the troops.

[Midnight Son]

Somebody call for a Troll? :lol:

[JeffL]

OK, this should be fun to see the replies - ran across this article as I was trying to figure Clark out this past week:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031124/usnews/24notes_2.htm

page down to the middle of the page, the segment entitled "Why can't generals just get along?"

[awdougherty]

I think it was put into a different context than what Clark had intended, and for that, I give Clark a lot of credit. The Fox anchor was trying to make it sound like Clark didn't take the sacrifice of American soldiers seriously because he called the entire operation a sideshow. It's a sideshow for Bush, not the soldiers out there laying their lives on the line. I felt like the Fox anchor was trying to shift the focus of Clark's statement to have a different feel.

[ElRavager]

Making it appear that you don't care about soldiers dying in Iraq because you disagree with the war is a bit bizarre. If we didn't go to war, they wouldn't be dying in the first place.

:roll: :roll: :roll:

[triggercut]

OK, this should be fun to see the replies - ran across this article as I was trying to figure Clark out this past week:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031124/usnews/24notes_2.htm

page down to the middle of the page, the segment entitled "Why can't generals just get along?"

What are you looking for by way of replies? The Hugh Shelton tiff is as old as the hills, politically speaking. This all came up about a week after Clark declared in September.

Shelton and Clark hated one another. Shelton was answering to the Old Boy network at the Pentagon, and Clark was answering to the Euros in NATO. Remember: Clark was the protege of Shelton's predecessor, Gen. John Shalikashvili and Bill Cohen's preceder, William Perry. He was promoted above friends of Shelton's, and the two didn't get along about it.

Gen. Barry McCaffrey calls Clark "a national treasure", and Col. David Hackworth, who called Clark "a perfumed prince" during the Kosovo campaign, has since admitted his remark was mistaken, and pronounced Clark "brilliant".

What does it say about Hugh Shelton's integrity and character that he'd take a nasty swipe at General Clark and then refuse to elaborate?