Roger Clemens’ defense at the Show 60 Minutes was a disastrous ploy for his defense attorney

Mike Wallace, a prominent investigative journalist, who was one of the initial correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This correspondent made capturing interviews with world famous persons. The most recent stories were linked with the former professional baseball player Roger Clemens and accusations related to application of anabolic steroids and HGH by this athlete. 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 Show 60 Minutes. Roger Clemens had to defense himself against accusations of his former personal coach Brian McNamee. This person accused Roger Clemens in usage of anabolic steroids and HGH. He cooperated with Mitchell Report investigators, when they investigated the widespread of steroid use in the Major League Baseball.
Wallace didn’t enforce Clemens to tell that he applied steroids. He just encouraged him to prove to others that he had administered neither steroids, nor HGH. Roger Clemens stated that he would pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had used steroids.
The interview of Clemens was an unfortunate public relations maneuver for the attorney Rusty Hardin. It was not a perceptive interview. But it renewed the interest after Wallace had died.
Actually, Wallace hosted much more substantial interviews during his career. The steroid interview with Roger Clemens was not the most interesting. Why did it draw all people’s attention?
Other interviews of Wallace are quite interesting. Wallace interviewed 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 noted about such methods of Richard Nixon, as thefts, spying, obstruction of justice, etc. The scandal resulted in resignation of the president Richard Nixon.
Wallace arranged also an interview with the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The journalist named him a “lunatic”. However, he was quoting the president Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt.
Another individual 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 about nature of nicotine.
However these interviews were significant, many persons directed their attention to insignificant interview with Roger Clemens. It may be because while lying of Roger Clemens before the Congress can result in federal war on steroids, the war on nicotine will never take place.