A Tuzla greeting exposes Hillary
posted at 10:53 am on March 23, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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I missed this video earlier this week. Rich Noyes at Newsbusters delivers a coup de grace to Hillary Clinton’s credibility in a YouTube mashup. The assertion that Hillary went to Tuzla under such threat that she had to eschew a greeting ceremony and run for her waiting armored vehicle gets exposed as an absolute lie with contemporaneous reporting from the day in question. Take a look at the video, and see how closely it matches Hillary’s description of the event this week (via Matthew Yglesias):
It shows a clearly confident and unconcerns Hillary Clinton strolling off of her airplane, with a smiling 15-year-old Chelsea in tow, and stopping on the tarmac for the greeting ceremony Hillary claims never took place. Instead of dodging sniper fire from the hills, Hillary stops to listen to a poem from a Bosnian girl, and to thank the girl and embrace her. At no point in this video does Hillary show any sense of danger or haste.
Hillary Clinton lied about Tuzla. She lied about it to make people believe in her qualifications to handle national crises. If she sells her Tuzla greeting as a harrowing encounter with death, what other delusions would she try to sell us as President?
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What other delusions? Oh the multitude of lies,pandering and chicanery that her and her little Billy Boy have foisted upon us for lo these many years.
Happy Easter all.
bbz123 on March 23, 2008 at 10:58 AM
*firing up the microwave for yet another pack of Blast O Butter*
LB - the one that isn't LaShawn Barber on March 23, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Lying sack.
txsurveyor on March 23, 2008 at 11:01 AM
But, if ya look at her thighs? that is her idea of running…
/snark off
Romeo13 on March 23, 2008 at 11:01 AM
See how she so deftly manages to describe the maneuvers a C130 etc. can do? Wow! what a great commander in chief she would be! Wow!
Sloan Morganstern on March 23, 2008 at 11:02 AM
And she doesn’t do it as well as her lecher husband.
Zorro on March 23, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Pantsuits, lies, and videotape.
Kowboy on March 23, 2008 at 11:05 AM
In these fabricated histories, we are seeing Orwell’s he who controls the past controls the future. This deserves a better treatment here than I can give it.
njcommuter on March 23, 2008 at 11:07 AM
And she had Chelsea along as a human shield no doubt.
BL@KBIRD on March 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Sinbad a comedian? Thats news to me.
Duane Ingalls Glasscock on March 23, 2008 at 11:13 AM
wow and such a blatant lie, wth was she thinking…
trailortrash on March 23, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Whose lies do you prefer, hers or Obama’s?
Mojave Mark on March 23, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Un be leevable
RushBaby on March 23, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Well, how much time do you have?
oldleprechaun on March 23, 2008 at 11:26 AM
What a harrowing experience! She barely had time to hug that little girl and turn on a dime and return fire to the gunmen firing a barrage of bullets at her. I had no idea this woman knew how to fire an M-16 like that! And what about how she to command.
HILLARY: Everybody take cover! Chelsea, throw a grenade at their position and see if you can shut those AK’s down.
CHELSEA: But mom the pin is stuck again.
HILLARY: Just do it! I’m going to fire back up that C-130 and get us the hell out of here! Here little girl with the stupid poem, take my bullet proof vest and stay under the jeep…do hear me! Stay under the jeep! Never mind the grenade Chelsea just get on that M60 and buzz those Slav monsters so I can fire up that plane!
revolution on March 23, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Heh.
flipflop on March 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM
When the truth becomes so obvious that even a CNN reporter can see it, she will admit to mixing her memories up. She flew into so many hot spots to save the day with diplomacy that it is difficult to keep the memories straight. The rationalization practically writes itself.
snaggletoothie on March 23, 2008 at 11:40 AM
That pretty much sums it up for the Dhem choices doesn’t it?
Guardian on March 23, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Just another credibility nail in her political coffin.
Hog Wild on March 23, 2008 at 11:42 AM
She’s counting on those who heard her untrue account of that day not tuning in to the blogosphere for the real story. Sadly, many won’t, so they won’t hear the truth. Happily, many will, thus confounding the MSM “cover-up”.
zeebeach on March 23, 2008 at 11:44 AM
What is wrong with you people? You are missing the bigger picture. Hillary’s claim that her years in the White House is what gives her the relevant experience to do the job from day one. And it does. Just look at how easily she lies.
sweeper on March 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Will any regular news outlet air this discrepancy? Can I hope?
evilcon555 on March 23, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Far be it from me to disparage hope on Easter Sunday.
zeebeach on March 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM
News flash: Hillary Clinton isn’t getting the nomination.
JohnJ on March 23, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Are we going to have a throw down?
http://imustimes.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/im-calling-out-senator-obama/
Dr Evil on March 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Sufferin’ Succotash! Mrs. Clinton must know that there is video of this. Does she rely on her friends in the press so much as to tell such a bold-faced lie as this? Or is she just this stupid?
p40tiger on March 23, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Sure she is. She has FBI files, Obama doesn’t.
Besides, she’s entitled. It’s her turn.
Del Dolemonte on March 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Sinbads a comedian, Hillarys’ a clown, the dem party more clowns than Barnam and Bailey!
Good question for the next debate “Hillary after looking at this clip exactly when do you start running for cover”?
Now?
dhunter on March 23, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Did anyone anywhere ever think she was telling the truth?
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 23, 2008 at 12:57 PM
The blogosphere may challenge her, but the vast majority of Americans don’t come here. So will this and the NAFTA lie in Ohio brought out by the just released scheduling documents be challenged by the MSM? Athought they are taking Mr. Clinton’s recent statement out of context, making him look like he is attacking Mr. Obama’s love of country, I doubt it. So Mr. Obama has a choice to make; to get down and dirty or have her take away the nomination. This will get more interesting as the weeks pass.
amr on March 23, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Hillary: Where were you at 3 a.m. July 18, 1996?
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59565
Afterimage on March 23, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Bottomline is that all those fibs and falsehoods she has told over the years are now coming back at her with a vengence. The fact is the moment she announced her candidacy, even the remotest of possibilities that any of these past tall tales she told would be brought back into question never seemed to have crossed her mind, because she was convinced that she would practically walk away with the election strictly on the basis of who she was. She obviously thought most Americans have short term memories. I thinks she now realizes we don’t.
pilamaye on March 23, 2008 at 1:08 PM
Come on, you know that was a holographic illusion that was projected on another runway to give them cover!
- The Cat
MirCat on March 23, 2008 at 1:22 PM
As the Clintons have always had a problem with Truth, this comes as no surprise. As most Liberals live in a “seperate” reality, TRUTH never serves their purposes well. TRUTH just kinda gets in the way of their agenda. Using the words Truth and Clinton in the same sentence is almost absurd.
However using the words Obama and racism makes sense, kinda like Pelosi and delusional or Reid and weasel or Waxman and buffoon.
I reckon I need 4 years of any Clinton in the White House like I need a huge boil on my backside. Those carpet bagging Clintons are still trying to sell Us that same old used car with a new hood ornament. No Thanks!
old trooper on March 23, 2008 at 1:39 PM
TUCK AND ROLL HILLARY, TUCK AND ROLL!
ThePrez on March 23, 2008 at 1:42 PM
OT: Obama’s New Pastor Compares [Rev] Wright to Jesus
Hmmm, but I thought Obama was the messiah?
Michael in MI on March 23, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Please accept the fact that she is a combo ninja/female Jack Bauer. Her real mission there was to take out top Serbian leaders at the behest of her wartime president husband and the CIA. Now everyone, just be quiet. Especially you “comedians”.
Then we can get back to the real issues of soup-line America and Global Warming.
Rhinoboy on March 23, 2008 at 1:43 PM
I’m just trying to recall. Did Bush have any of these “gotcha” moments when he was running in 2000 or 2004? I seem to recall a joke about selling wood…
Seixon on March 23, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Sure she was lying; she is a Klinton. I am fine with it. I don’t mind if she and Obambi take turns being the biggest jerk/liar in the country on alternate weeks. Just makes it easier for the Repubs in the fall.
HawaiiLwyr on March 23, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Keep this woman in the spotlight for as long as possible. Let her political life die by way of a thousand truths coming back to haunt her. The woman is nothing other than a scumbag shyster Liberal lawyer, who happened into a position of power long enough to use her power to commit acts of evil against other humans.
I hope this woman stays in this race until the entire Library of evil has been exposed.
Keemo on March 23, 2008 at 2:15 PM
What’s amazing is that five months past the Philadelphia debate gaffe that gave Obama new life, Hillary and her people still haven’t figured out that it’s not the 1990s, or even the first 5 percent of the 21st Century anymore, and that at best, the big media is divided in their support between her and Obama. That means for every person at one of the TV networks or big dalies who would never bother to go to the video or photo libraries to fact-check a Clinton statement out of fear it would hurt Bill and/or Hill politically, there’s another person out there right now jumping at the chance to catch her in a lie in order to give Barak’s campaign a boost.
You don’t have to have every reporter, network or newspaper treating Mrs. Clinton like a Republican, just enough to get it into the public eye, and then the Obama supporters will take it from there (and the same holds true for Barak, post Texas and Ohio. He still has his media cultists, and the race issue does give the press butterflies, but the pro-Hillary people in the media feel more emboldened now to not let everything he says or does go by unchallenged).
jon1979 on March 23, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Of course, if she was telling the truth (which, obviously, she wasn’t), that just means that she intentionally exposed her own child to sniper fire. Hm. A liar or a child abuser.
morganfrost on March 23, 2008 at 2:35 PM
It is amazing how these people lie KNOWING that there were other people that would contradict their statement.
Sheesh.
A Axe on March 23, 2008 at 2:35 PM
And, in that speech given by Clinton, he made the statement that our emergency management system was the best in the world. Don’t ever forget that when Dems complain that FEMA wasn’t as good as it was cracked up to be. According to Bill, everything was just hunky dorey.
Connie on March 23, 2008 at 2:52 PM
While this logic is common, it is simple nonsense contradicted by everyone’s experience. People lie. Every person lies. If we took one lie to mean that a person is no longer trustworthy, we’d never trust anyone again.
Just for the record, Reagan also had various delusions and we think he was an excellent President. Condemn Hilary and you condemn Reagan also.
thuja on March 23, 2008 at 2:54 PM
PWND!
lodestonejames on March 23, 2008 at 3:01 PM
hole-wee cwap!!!
davidk on March 23, 2008 at 3:05 PM
It’s about the larger truth of it all.
Niko on March 23, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Treason.
Seven Percent Solution on March 23, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Thanks for the reminder afterimage. There were many trained observers (professional military) among those witnesses that night. The truth will come out, sooner or later.
Zorro on March 23, 2008 at 4:16 PM
I wasn’t aware Reagan was running for President this year. Didn’t he die in 2004?
Del Dolemonte on March 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59565
Everyone who missed it needs to read the above link. The Clintons buried TWA Flight 800 because they knew war footing would favor Republicans in ‘96, even a farse like Dole would have been given the 8 or 9 points he would have needed to win.
Remember, this would have prevented 9-11 if the country had been aware of it. The Clintons are traitors and belong in prison.
revolution on March 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Referring to Hillary? One lie? Must be some kind of “new math”.
I don’t recall any Reagan delusions, but in any case I don’t think that Hillary is actually delusional, just a serial fabricator.
MB4 on March 23, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Hillary’s “macaca moment”?
MB4 on March 23, 2008 at 5:01 PM
That’s OK. Reagan couldn’t recall them either.
Again, I’m not saying he wasn’t the greatest president of the second half of the 20th century. He clearly was, but all people have flaws or at least have traits that someone, somewhere will consider a flaw.
thuja on March 23, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2008 at 6:04 PM
thuja on March 23, 2008 at 5:32 PM
I would definitely call lying a major flaw.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2008 at 6:09 PM
thuja
Condemn Hilary and you condemn Reagan also. on March 23, 2008 at 5:32 5:32 PM
Talk about moral equivlents.
Johan Klaus on March 23, 2008 at 6:15 PM
As someone else pointed out, everyone lies. The question, then, shouldn’t be, “Did the politician lie?” but rather, “WHY did the politician lie?” Could be for reasons of national security, or to avoid personal embarrasment. Or, in THIS case, to accrue political power. I don’t mind a politician lying for reasons of national security, and I can understand a politician lying to avoid embarrassment. But the third example? That’s a politician who should NEVER hold office. If they’re willing to lie, repeatedly and heavily, just to get into office, what are they willing to do to KEEP in office?
wolfva on March 23, 2008 at 7:15 PM
She just doesn’t lie was well as Billy Jeff. You would think after all these years together she would be better at it. I don’t even get the sense that she believes her lies. I have often felt like Billy Jeff really believes his or at least that if he acts as if he believes them that they will really be true.
USBB on March 23, 2008 at 7:27 PM
…… and some want this thing and it’s husband back in the White House and control of our Military, State Department, the FBI, not to mention the IRS?
Here is an application question for the Presidency of the United States:
Question #1:
If an Al-Qaeda member is standing next to, how will you know?
End of Test.
When a single politician can answer that question, then we may truly know our enemy.
It is gravely clear, Hillary Clinton does not.
Do you want her in charge when the knife is at your throat?
Seven Percent Solution on March 23, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Her accounting of her visit to Tuzla is laughable…I think a couple of hundred thousand troops in harms way in the middle east would agree. It is shameful, delusional, and a clear window into an un-balanced mind…
Nozzle on March 23, 2008 at 8:57 PM
She’s quite the caring mother. Always somehow incorporating Chelsea into her fairy tales of heroism and leadership, as though that will lend more credence to her pack of lies.
And Chelsea, the next generation of lying Klinton, is perfectly willing to go along with Mommy & Daddy,
Poor girl. As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined.
fogw on March 23, 2008 at 9:25 PM
This is absolutely what I’ve wanted to see,Hillary’s
Never-Ending Story of Lies.Now a nice three minute
montage of Hillarys Greatest Hits of her Lies!
And get the video’s out there,The argument,we’ve been
there done that,the media’s done it,so what.
Get the videos rolling on You-Tube to show Hillarys
supporters let them feel uncomfortable,remind the media.
And show the new young voters what everyone has been talking about,Hillarys inconsistencys and show proof,
via the video’s of truth.
And let the Liberal’s in Hillarys camp do some squirming
every time someone brings up one of Hillarys Fairy Tales!
canopfor on March 23, 2008 at 9:28 PM
This also reminds me of Bill Clinton when he and
Steppenoplis (from ABC news)were walking out of the
funeral of Ron Brown.They were both sharing a joke,
untill one of them,Oh Sh!t the cameras are rolling,
and in mid-step Bill switched on the oh I’m crying
over my loss of my friend.
Or: When Bill Clinton was over in Europe on the 50th
anniversary of World War Two.In which President George
Bush Sr.had more of a right,with his WW2 experience.
Anyhow,Bill Clinton was on the beach by himself and
he just so happened to find 6 or 8 small white rocks.
Bill then arranged them in a form of a cross on the
beach near the water line,Bill looks over towards the
camera and has a tear running done his face!
Now for Hill and Bill,All the World is a Stage!
canopfor on March 23, 2008 at 9:44 PM
A legend in her own mind.
Tennessee Dave on March 23, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Still trying to invision how this is all going to end. Does the Billary just hold a news conference and announce for the greater good they withdraw ? Or on the other extreme will she want her goons to battle it out in the streets of Denver ? If threats sway the super delagates her way will the cities, college campuses, and latte houses of America explode with betrayed Obama-istas ?
JonRoss on March 23, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Magic 8 Ball says ….. Yes
And who do you think the MSM will blame for disenfranchising the poor black folks?
1. Hillary’s goons
2. McCain/Republicans
3. Whitey
fogw on March 23, 2008 at 10:12 PM
3.
WhiteyPastyWhat do I win?
Seven Percent Solution on March 23, 2008 at 10:16 PM
In this era of the Internet, where any celebrity or politician’s moves are videotaped for posterity, it’s impossible to bend the truth even slightly.
Al Gore, whose Internet bit him back in the form of his energy usage, would certainly have told Hillary that had she asked.
Obama has just learned the same lesson as well.
When you hear about governments shutting down the internet, or restricting access, you now know the reason.
unclesmrgol on March 23, 2008 at 10:32 PM
thuja,
A common jury instruction:
If you find that any witness has deliberately lied in any particular, you are free to discount any part, including the totality, of that witness’ testimony.
You are free to discount any part or the totality of Reagan’s statements based on your discernment that he deliberately lied. We are free to discount any part or the totality of Hillary’s statements on the same principle.
unclesmrgol on March 23, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Hillary does have the added negative, in comparison to Reagan, of having had her peeps go out and verbally slap down Sindbad when he first questioned her version of the story, as opposed to actually going back and checking to see if her memory was faulty. She then went out last week and made the same claim again, after which this photo and video were unearthed, which led to the WaPost’s four-noser claim about her veracity.
So she was called on her claim, and chose to try and brand that person a liar (shades of the pre-blue dress counter ops against Monica Lewinsky), before getting called on her faulty memory a second time by a new organization with photographic evidence. Hillary can now either admit she was wrong, or people can start questioning whether she’s the one, instead of John McCain, that voters should be worrying about having “senior moments”.
jon1979 on March 23, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Looks like some of Hillary’s chickens…are coming home…to ROOST…
Guardian on March 23, 2008 at 11:08 PM
On a person note: I was the 10th U.S serviceman on the main air base in Tuzla (Hungary – Dec. 15, 1995) and the first soldier to cross into Croatia (Jan. 21, 1996) on the first mission. (Military Police – convoy security) True and verifiable.
Funny, I haven’t mentioned that in 10 years…
Claypigeon on March 24, 2008 at 12:21 AM
So… Obama can disenfranchise Florida and Michigan voters OR Hillary can disenfranchise the slight majority of Dhimmicrat voters who have, up to this point, sided with the racist Obama. Clearly a Colorado conundrum is coalescing.
Shadenfreudelicious!
Mojave Mark on March 24, 2008 at 12:21 AM
Correction: Tazar airbase.
Claypigeon on March 24, 2008 at 12:26 AM
She was ducking from gunfire when she bent over to hug the little girl. Could have sworn I saw a bullet whiz by.
hepcat on March 24, 2008 at 1:41 AM
Makes you wonder if any of the 3 have a shred of honesty. Pigs to the swill.
pat on March 24, 2008 at 2:05 AM
People will still vote for her. You can’t convince some people their “chosen” one is bad, ever. My faith in humanity is only lower than my faith in government to do right by the people who elected them to office.
Neo on March 24, 2008 at 3:37 AM
This broad is a piece of crap from the word go. She should not be a nominee for anything, nor should she be in the Senate. New Yorkers, what is wrong with you for electing this tragic joke?
echosyst on March 24, 2008 at 5:29 AM
Liar! Liar! Pants suit on fire!
Shy Guy on March 24, 2008 at 5:56 AM
Cap’n Ed, you are, for the most part, preaching to the choir here about Hilldebeast. For those left-wing nutjobs that post here – they are too far gone to even try to convince the error of their way.
If one looks in the dictionary under liar (or perjurer) a CLINTON FAMILY PICTURE will illustrate the definition.
jimbo2008 on March 24, 2008 at 7:54 AM
One of the saddest things about the whole episode was that Hillary forced the hapless Togo West to attend her press conference and to defend her. West was a Clinton loyalist with no apparent qualification to be US Army Chief of Staff when the Clintons appointed him. His main qualification was being a Clinton loyalist and supporter. To the Clintons, that was enough to hand the US Army over to him. Mr. West knew that Hillary was lying but he stood by her as she lied and he looked like he needed to use the bathroom in the worst way. In the Washington Post interview, West conceded that he never heard any gunshots as Hillary claimed there were bullets flying but he said that “Maybe Hillary’s recollection is different”. Why doesn’t West have the manhood just to say that Hillary is a liar and that Hillary made me show up at the press conference and play the role of Clinton loyalist/flunkie/crony/stooge?
Larraby on March 24, 2008 at 10:11 AM
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