Roger Clemens’ defense at the Show 60 Minutes was not perceptive

Mike Wallace, a celebrated investigative journalist, who was one of the original correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This journalist made capturing interviews with world prominent persons. The latest stories were about the former professional baseball player Roger Clemens and accusations related to usage of anabolic steroids and HGH by this sportsperson. Mike Wallace’s last appearance on TV was connected with this case.
The interview with Roger Clemens about steroids was broadcast in January, 2008. Rusty Hardin, the defense attorney for Roger Clemens, arranged the appearing of this baseball star in the program 60 Minutes. Roger Clemens had to defense himself against accusations of his former personal coach Brian McNamee. This trainer accused Roger Clemens in intake of anabolic steroids and HGH. He cooperated with investigators of Mitchell Report, when they tried to find out the widespread of steroid use in the Major League Baseball.
Wallace didn’t enforce Clemens to tell that he used steroids. He just encouraged him to prove to others that he had applied neither steroids, nor HGH. Clemens claimed that he would be able to pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had taken steroids.
The interview of Clemens was an unfortunate public relations maneuver for his defense attorney. It was not a perceptive interview. But it renewed the interest after Wallace’s death.
Actually, Wallace hosted much more significant interviews during his career. The steroid interview with Roger Clemens was not the most significant. Why did it draw each person’s attention?
Other interviews of Wallace are quite significant. Wallace made an interview with the lawyer of the president Richard Nixon and the assistant to the president for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman during the Watergate scandal. Wallace called the Watergate scandal “perjury”. He enumerated such methods of Richard Nixon, as thefts, spying, obstruction of justice, etc. The scandal led to resignation of the president Richard Nixon.
The Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini was also interviewed by Wallace. The reporter called him a “lunatic”. But he was quoting the president Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt.
Another person who was interviewed by Wallace was the Vice President of Research and Development at a tobacco company. Jeffrey Wigand admitted that executives of the company cheated before the Congress about their knowledge related to nature of nicotine.
Although these interviews were significant, a lot of people directed their attention to insignificant interview with the former baseball player Roger Clemens. It may be because while lying of Roger Clemens before the Congress can result in federal struggle against steroids, the war on nicotine will never exist.