December 21, 2001

Mike Wallace Pulls His Punches

The Hotline's Tom Dalton thinks Jim Jeffords lied to Mike Wallace about former President's Bush's supposed admission that he had swung too far to the right:

Forgive me for being skeptical, but does anyone really believe that an embattled president would find time in the middle of a campaign to go tell a lowly senator from Vermont that he should have taken his advice and been more moderate? Apparently Mike Wallace does.

Dalton says:

Certainly anyone who had a pulse from 1988 to 1992 knows that it was conservatives, not moderates, who felt alienated by Bush 41... Jeffords’ account of the alleged Bush 41 apology is peculiar, and Wallace should have challenged him on it. In a 1996 interview with PBS’ David Frost, Bush himself acknowledged that the "biggest mistake of my presidency was that I damaged my credibility by agreeing to a tax increase." Therefore, wouldn’t it be contradictory for the former president to admit that the 1990 budget deal foiled his presidency, but at the same time, also believe he should have followed Jeffords’ advice and been more moderate?

Why did Mike Wallace not follow up on this harder? He may have been running out of time.

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Posted by wasylik at December 21, 2001 09:29 AM | TrackBack
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