Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Is it possible that Hillary Clinton really thought she risked her life disembarking from a plane and running for cover "under sniper fire" at the heavily fortified U.S. Air Force base at Tuzla? Clinton has been telling the story of her visit to Bosnia in 1996 for many years, gradually adding embellishment and changing details. Perhaps she may have actually come to believe it.

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Hahahahah! Can we have yet ANOTHER Bosnia thread? The straws are really being grasped here.

Wow, Hillary must have been sleep deprived for a very long time. She's been misspeaking about the Bosnia trip for months now. Please, God, don't let her be the one to answer the red phone. I mean, can you imagine what kinds of things she might say in the middle of the night and under duress?

Looks Hillary is a born story teller:

This account started to raise eyebrows. On March 11, Sinbad (who was along for the trip) questioned Clinton's memory. The comedian was quoted in the Washington Post cracking that "the only red phone moment was, 'Do we eat here or the next place?'"

Six days later, on March 17, Clinton made what the campaign billed as a major foreign policy address at George Washington University. She opened her speech by saying, "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." Afterward she dismissed Sinbad's comments in a press conference with reporters, saying he "is a comedian" and recalled "flying over the countryside with bulletproof everything on, like we do in Iraq." She elaborated, according to news accounts of the press conference, by saying, "Part of the reason we were in the C-17 is because part of it is armored ... I was moved up into the cockpit. Everyone else was told to sit on their bulletproof vests. There was no greeting ceremony, and we were basically told to run to our cars. Now, that is what happened."

could be that everywhere she goes people wish her ill? just sayin...

"Can we have yet ANOTHER Bosnia thread?"

Possibly.

What's for sure, though, is that you haven't heard the last about her Bosnia lie.

Bon apetite!

The Audacity of Hoax

"I remember landing under sniper fire," Clinton recalled of a trip to Bosnia in a major foreign policy speech last week. The only problem: there was no sniper fire. Clinton today admitted a "misstatement" and tried to play it of as a "minor blip."

It isn't. Here's why: Clinton has said over and over that she (and John McCain) are prepared to be commander-in-chief and Obama is not. But wouldn't an actual commander-in-chief, or anyone else for that matter, remember being shot at? Wouldn't it of been a huge international story if guerrillas had tried to take down the First Lady and her entourage? And if Clinton is distorting what happened in Bosnia--a key section of her foreign policy resume--what else is she fibbing about?

Before the Ohio primary, Clinton relentlessly attacked the Obama campaign for supposedly telling Ohioans one thing about NAFTA and the Canadians another. Maybe they did, but it was Clinton who claimed that she opposed NAFTA from the beginning when White House records indicate she was lobbying on its behalf.

In an interview yesterday Clinton said she'd go after the votes of pledged delegates, who she claimed, rather bizarrely, are "just like superdelegates." For months there have been reports that the Clinton campaign might try and flip Obama's committed delegates, and each time the Clinton campaign said the stories were untrue. Now Clinton is telling a different story, once again.

There's a good reason the Clinton campaign routinely mocks the Obama campaign as "just words"--because their own words are often inaccurate, contradictory or hard to swallow.
The Nation -- Barack Obama may have popularized the phrase. But right now Hillary Clinton is showing the true audacity.

"It's also another example of the fog of nonsense that has increasingly enveloped the Clinton campaign," Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo blogged today. "Spin is one thing. And it's not a bad thing. But to have utility it must be tethered to some relevant facts, some kind of reality. Otherwise it just descends into ridiculousness."

There's a difference between spinning and lying. "Hillary Clinton can fail sleazy or she can fail honorably," Joe Klein of Time magazine said last week.

Right now she's doing the former.
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