BuzzFlash and Paul Begala Get the Right Wing All Riled Up

Within two days, the Wall Street Journal, Andrew Sullivan and Cal Thomas All Trashed BuzzFlash for Its Interview with Paul Begala. We Must be Doing Something Right!

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Clinton: the man who won't go away
by Cal Thomas

An excerpt:

It's difficult to select the funniest defense of Clinton in the Begala interview, but it could be his claim that Republicans use negative campaigning because "they know they can't win on the merits and on the ideas...Clinton was not a 'so is your mother' kind of politician." And what "ideas" did Clinton have that he wasn't willing to jettison if the polls showed his popularity would go up if he flipped? Welfare reform? He first opposed it but then supported it when polls showed the people were in favor. There are many other examples.

[BuzzFlash Note: Were there so "many other examples," that Thomas couldn't remember them? Another typical right-wing "blame with no substantiation" game.]

Begala then goes on the couch. Asked by BuzzFlash, "How can you explain the virulent hate that so many people in the right wing have for Clinton?" he answers, "I believe these people hate themselves. I believe they hate our country. I believe they hate our culture (he's right about that, especially a culture that would tolerate the kind of unethical and immoral behavior that defined Bill Clinton). They can't accept the level of self-loathing that they have, and so they project it onto someone else."

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20020404.shtml

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From Andrew Sullivan's home page blog:

BEGALA AWARD NOMINEE: "By the way, let me also take up for my colleagues in the Clinton administration. It turns out we were the most ethical administration in history." - Yes, it's Paul Begala! Interviewed on Buzzflash.com. The rest of the interview has some real beauts as well.

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/

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