Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace tried to shame Hillary Clinton for not responding to interview requests. He suggested that she was too rude or too arrogant or cowardly to come on his show. But it’s quite possible that Wallace blew his chance when he infuriated Bill Clinton by trying to blame him for 9/11 during a now-famous 2006 interview.

On Sunday, Wallace took time out to hit Hillary Clinton for not coming on the show. From the transcript:

WALLACE: With Bernie Sanders’ appearance here last week, we’ve now sat down with every candidate in the race except Hillary Clinton. As we noted, she was asked recently what she would do as president to bring the country together. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CLINTON: I think it’s an important point the president made in his State of the Union. And here’s what I would say. I will go anywhere to meet with anyone at any time to find common ground. (END VIDEO CLIP) WALLACE: But, once again this week, Clinton turned down our request for an interview. We reached out to her campaign officials in charge of this sort of thing, communications director Jennifer Palmieri, and press secretary Nick Merrill. Neither of them had the courtesy to even answer our phone calls and emails.

But Hillary Clinton may well have had in mind that time that Wallace sandbagged Bill Clinton by violating the terms of their interview in order to suggest he had not done enough to capture Osama Bin Laden.

As former NewsHound Judy wrote back then:

Wallace stated in his introduction to the interview that the ground rules called for a 15-minute interview, with half the time devoted to Clinton’s global initiatives and half the time to anything Wallace wanted to ask. Then he innocently told the viewers “that’s not how it turned out.” Wallace did indeed ask a few questions about the global initiatives conference. Less than four minutes into the interview, however, Wallace shifted the questions to whether Clinton had done enough to try to capture Osama bin Laden. Four minutes is not half of 15 minutes by anybody’s watch. When Clinton called Wallace on that fact, Wallace dodged by saying most of the questions he had written down had to do with the global initiatives. Then, he returned to the global initiatives conference at the end of the interview, but only after Clinton had shamed him into it by telling the audience what the ground rules were. Would Wallace even have admitted he had agreed to allow Clinton seven and a half minutes to talk about global initiatives had Clinton not brought it up in the interview? Would Wallace have returned to the topic had Clinton not called him on his dishonesty?

The videos below don't include Wallace's introduction but you can read Fox’s complete transcript here.

The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple points out other good reasons Hillary Clinton might think she wouldn’t get a fair shake on Fox. The top three come from Andrea Tantaros, the cohost who asked her radio show listeners to “do me a favor” and punch an Obama supporter “in the face.” One can only imagine what she might ask people to do to a Hillary Clinton supporter.

Speaking of courtesy, it’s safe to say that Fox News’s Andrea Tantaros didn’t exhibit too much when she said the following about Clinton on the the noon show “Outnumbered”: “People are making the comparison that she’s a thoroughbred horse who can’t get over the line. She’s on her way to the glue factory in a real way. It’s true. It’s true,” said Tantaros. Call that Possible Reason No. 1 that the Clinton camp isn’t returning the messages of “Fox News Sunday.” For Possible Reason No. 2, let’s go to “Outnumbered” co-host Andrea Tantaros, who last year referred to Clinton as the “most corrupt woman in the history of the world.” For Possible Reason No. 3, why not try “Outnumbered” co-host Andrea Tantaros? Referencing the Michael Bay-directed film “13 Hours” about the Benghazi attacks of Sept. 11, 2012, she said, “If anyone sees this movie, and everyone should go see it, and goes on to vote for Hillary Clinton they’re a criminal, in my estimation.”

Those are just a few of the many, many smears and jeers that are made against the Clintons on Fox News.

TVNewser reported Monday, “Clinton’s traveling press secretary Nick Merrill responded to the show today. The spokesperson adds, ‘we look forward to having a conversation’ about a potential Hillary Clinton booking on Fox News Sunday.”

Watch Bill Clinton nail Wallace on his bias, below, from the November 24, 2006 Fox News Sunday, via our friend Eyes on Fox.