Chris Wallace tried to sandbag President Clinton in his Sunday talk show. If you've watched FOX News much it is a standard practice. Tell your guest t
September 21, 2006

Chris Wallace tried to sandbag President Clinton in his Sunday talk show. If you've watched FOX News much it is a standard practice. Tell your guest that you'll be discussing one topic and then go to something completely different when you get them on air. However, I've heard that Clinton turned the tables on Wallace and gave him a major league smack down.

Bill O'Reilly did it to David Kline:

Last night I appeared on the conservative TV talk show The O’Reilly Factor, ostensibly to talk about political blogs and the impact they are having on the American political process. Or so I was told by the two producers for the show who spent over an hour pre-interviewing me. Unbeknownst to me, however, the show turned out to be a total set-up job in which host Bill O’Reilly and guest Jed Babbin spent the entire time attacking the web site Media Matters for having posted commentary in the past critical of them both…read on

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