Fox News’ Wallace On Clinton ‘Attack’: ‘I Still Have No Idea What Set Him Off’

More from Fox News’ Chris Wallace regarding his contentious showdown with Bill Clinton via FishbowlDC:

The groundrules were simple — 15 minutes — to be divided evenly between questions about the Clinton Global Initiative and anything else I wanted to ask. … I asked what I thought was a non-confrontational question about whether he could have done more to “connect the dots and really go after al Qaeda.”

I was utterly surprised by the tidal wave of details — emotion — and political attacks that followed.

The President was clearly stung by any suggestion that he had not done everything he could to get bin Laden. He attacked right-wingers — accused me of a “conservative hit job” — and even spun a theory I still don’t understand that somehow Fox was trying to cover up the fact that NewsCorp. chief Rupert Murdoch was supporting his Global Initiative. I still have no idea what set him off.

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Former President Clinton is a very big man. As he leaned forward — wagging his finger in my face — and then poking the notes I was holding — I felt as if a mountain was coming down in front of me.

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