Remember when the Bush White House called NBC because they didn't want Pres. Clinton on after 911?

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/27/spin/print.html

White House whitewashers

Bush staffers chastise NBC for a Clinton interview, Fleischer whacks Maher and the Bush-was-in-danger story falls apart. Tension mounts between the White House and the media.

By Jake Tapper

Sep. 27, 2001 | On the same day last week that "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw sat down to interview former President Clinton, executives for the program received unexpected phone calls from senior communications staffers at the White House, expressing disappointment about the decision to spotlight Bush's predecessor.

While not asking the network to refrain from running the interview, they expressed the feeling that the Sept. 18 interview with Clinton would not be helpful to the current war on terrorism. Neither NBC nor the White House would comment on the phone calls, but sources familiar with the calls confirmed that they happened.

This news comes on the heels of revelations that President Bush and Air Force One were not, contrary to earlier White House claims, targets of the terrorists who attacked the Pentagon and the World Trade Center Sept. 11. The White House is now saying that those claims, which it used to explain why the president didn't return to Washington immediately that day, were a result of staffers "misunderstanding" security information.

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1. K and R

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2. Isn't it time to start kicking media ass?

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3. I remember when this happened as clear as day

Like most people my wife and I were both pretty shook up after the Towers went down. I can remember the feeling of dread. Especially knowing that the idiot Bush who was running all over the country like a scared rabbit was in charge.

Then President Clinton came on the NBC Nightly News and seeing him comforted both my wife and I just listening to him for a few minutes. He was one of the few things that made us feel more at ease during that period.

The Bush White House realized this and had to put a stop to it. Bastards.

Don