Hillary: Yeah, I lied misspoke Update: AOL Hot Seat poll added
posted at 8:22 am on March 25, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Hillary Clinton finally acknowledged what even Howard Wolfson couldn’t spin away — that she didn’t stroll off an airplane in Tuzla in 1996 under sniper fire. In an editorial meeting with the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, Hillary called the controversy a “minor blip”, but admitted that she made a “misstatement” when it came to the danger she faced in Tuzla. That admission only came after video clearly showed Hillary and her entourage, including a 15-year-old Chelsea, smiling and moving unhurriedly to a greeting ceremony she claimed never happened:
Clinton acknowleged today for the first time that it was a “misstatement” when she said in a major prepared foreign policy speech last week that “I remember landing under sniper fire” but also tried to brush off the entire issue as “a minor blip.” She also gave a revised account of her airplane landing and her tarmac greeting at the Tuzla Air Force base 12 years ago — seeking to explain a picture re-published this weekend in the Washington Post showing her and daughter Chelsea calmly greeting an 8-year-old girl.
In her speech last week at George Washington University, Clinton maintained “[t]here was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base. Today, she told our group at the Daily News that she was informed that we “had to meet this 8-year-old girl,” so “I took her stuff and left.”
The dispute is hardly a trivial one because the New York senator has tried to stress that foreign policy experience is why voters in Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary should chose her over Sen. Barack Obama, the overall leader in delegates and primary votes. And she has placed the Bosnia trip front and center, to the extent that her account of her visit there led off last week’s televised speech. Here’s what she said then:
I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base. But it was a moment of great pride for me to visit our troops, not only in our main base as Tuzla, but also at two outposts where they were serving in so many capacities to deactivate and remove landmines, to hunt and seek out those who had not complied with the Dayton Accords and put down their arms, and to build relationships with the people that might lead to a peace for them and their children.
Even CBS decided to offer the conclusive proof of her “misstatement”, showing the video on its national news program last night. When CBS provides the torpedo, then the rest of us know the target has already been sunk for the Clintons.
Hillary still wants to spin this, as her extended answer demonstrates. She insists that her argument about foreign-policy experience still remains relevant. The meltdown over her credibility has fogged the actual argument in which Hillary used Tuzla, which was that she was so good at foreign policy that her husband’s administration would send her instead of the diplomats, especially if it was too dangerous for the President to visit personally.
Unfortnately for Hillary, she still hasn’t come up with an actual example. She told the Inquirer editors that she visited 80 countries, but that doesn’t mean she conducted any heavy foreign-policy duties on those trips. First Ladies travel abroad frequently, with and without their presidential husbands, but that doesn’t constitute the kind of experience that Hillary demands we infer from her journeys. In all of the cases we have seen, she conducted the kind of ceremonial duties that First Ladies always do, not hard-charging diplomatic initiatives that would demonstrate better experience than Barack Obama or John McCain, especially the latter.
And now the admission that she misrepresented the Tuzla trip in both danger and importance undermines what little credibility she had left after insisting that she should receive credit for all of the foreign-policy initiatives during her husband’s administration. Without experience or credibility, just what can she offer?
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Liar, liar, suit pants on fire…
soulsirkus on March 25, 2008 at 8:26 AM
She has no credibility with Republicans. She’s only chipping away at what little respect (or is it fear?) she has with the Democrats. This is fun, watching the Democrats implode.
windbag on March 25, 2008 at 8:27 AM
You had it right the first time.
NoFanofLibs on March 25, 2008 at 8:32 AM
So she tried to claim a major role in Irish peace negotiations and got spanked. She tried to claim a harrowing entrance to the Balkans and got exposed. Considering the foreign policy issues of the late ’90’s, I say East Timor is next. Anybody else care to guess?
trubble on March 25, 2008 at 8:35 AM
If her lips are moving…..
Keemo on March 25, 2008 at 8:37 AM
Hillary went, because it was too dangerous to let Bill near an attractive eight year old girl…
Maquis on March 25, 2008 at 8:39 AM
You and Allahpundit gotta stop picking on Hillary.
So what?
People misspeak all the time.
The other day when John McCain was visiting Iraq, he talked to the Media in Baghdad saying that he had an honest discussion with the Iranian Prime Minister and he promised to support the Iranian people in their struggle against Islamic terrorism.
And me, I misspeak all the time and I get things wrong, unwillingly
Do you know that things are so big in Texas compared to other states?
I was in Texas not long ago and while I was swimming in what I thought was a swimming pool in a community center, a guy came to me and said: “Sir, are you done?”
I replied: “Done? Excuse me?”
He said:
“You’ve been inside the toilet seat for an hour now.”
So please, give Hillary some slack. OK?
Don’t blow things out of proportion.
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 8:39 AM
This brings me back to Dick Morris’ book Rewriting History, showing Hillary to be a perpetual
liarmis-speaker.JetBoy on March 25, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Getting a name wrong in an otherwise factually accurate sentence is one thing.
And quite different than rewriting history to an extent that it is unrecognizable in any fashion from reality.
Midas on March 25, 2008 at 8:46 AM
Clinton has been slapped down twice now when she based her lies on specific issues. My guess is that she will regroup with some vague accomplishment about helping children or puppies or something els soft, cuddly, and unverifiable by metrics or journalistic accounts.
highhopes on March 25, 2008 at 8:47 AM
Maybe we should just call her Ms. Spoke.
Mr. Bingley on March 25, 2008 at 8:50 AM
Give Hillary a break, she clearly is a “truth-challenged American” That rarest of afflictions reaching victimhood status. Fortunately, there’s a suport group for the truth-challenged Americans. A place where they can talk to others with the same affliction, raise funds for their cause, and be around others who don’t mind it when the occcasional lie slips out of one’s mouth….. That place, of course, is the US Congress!
highhopes on March 25, 2008 at 8:52 AM
Vince Foster was unavailable to misspeak
Wade on March 25, 2008 at 8:54 AM
So please, give Hillary some slack. OK?
Don’t blow things out of proportion.
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 8:39 AM
I misspoke one time while working at my first ever job; a few days later, I was working at my second ever job… People must be held accountable if lessons are to be learned.
The real question is “is there anything Hillary won’t do to get her way?” I often wonder if the truth has ever left her lips in the form of words. Both Hillary and Bill have played the American people for fools their entire political life’s.
Keemo on March 25, 2008 at 8:54 AM
I mean, it not like Hillary sat through sermons (and being spirtually led) denouncing America as being racist or embracing people like Fairakhan (sp but not worth looking up) or something trivial like that…
*
“Tell me, can an 8 yr. old girl stop a bullet if used as a shield”…her final question before exiting the plane.
right2bright on March 25, 2008 at 8:54 AM
/sarc, right??
bernzright777 on March 25, 2008 at 8:54 AM
It’s early, but that’s in the hopper for Comment of the Day™.
steveegg on March 25, 2008 at 8:56 AM
If Chelsea hadn’t been there I might’ve been willing to let her slide on this one – she goes a lot of places and may have been thinking of something else.
But. No one forgets the details when their children are in danger. No one.
She lied. Again.
inviolet on March 25, 2008 at 8:58 AM
New video of Hillary telling a tale tale about her trip to Lake Tortuga.
Here she is talking about her adventures in Egypt.
The woman is shameless.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2008 at 8:58 AM
Clinton and liar is a like butter and bread.
tx2654 on March 25, 2008 at 8:59 AM
Even if Hillary did not lie, the fact that she believes going to Bosnia lends credibility to her foreign policy experience is a stunning JOKE.
winemkr on March 25, 2008 at 8:59 AM
Guess you are OK with out and out lies, well I am not. Honor counts.
Wade on March 25, 2008 at 9:00 AM
And this reply also for the rest of you.
This is minor compared to the damage Hussein will do to the country he hates: America.
Got my point?
I’m sure we can live with Hillary for a while.
Women lie all the time about their age, for example.
It’s a little white lie.
Besides, Hillary is more mannish that any of the other candidates. And THAT she can’t lie about it.
Where is McCain in all this?
I think he’s practicing yelling ” B I N G O” somewhere in Arizona, in anticipation of his retirement in Florida, in November.
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM
Sorry, baby, it was not, as you put it, a “misstatement”.
It was an out and out baldfaced lie. Just like when your hubby waved his finger in our collective faces years ago and said he never had relations with that intern.
And you want to be President?
Just like what you said happened in Tuzla, dream on, baby!
Dream on.
pilamaye on March 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM
A Clinton mis-spoke!?!?!? A definition (replace pathological liar with Billarry)and a question….sound like anyone (or everyone) we know in the DNC
Pathological Liar
A pathological liar is usually defined as someone who lies incessantly to get their way and does so with little concern for others. Pathological lying is often viewed as coping mechanism developed in early childhood and it is often associated with some other type of mental health disorder.
A pathological liar is often goal-oriented (i.e., lying is focused – it is done to get one’s way). Pathological liars have little regard or respect for the rights and feelings of others. A pathological liar often comes across as being manipulative, cunning and self-centered.
PatriotPete on March 25, 2008 at 9:06 AM
The thing I really wonder about is why we don’t call these lying suckers out on the carpet more often with video??
If I were running for office, I would be like a college debater with a bank of flat screens behind me and when my opponents or the media asked me a question, it would be show time. I am sure I would tick a lot of people off, but my press conferences would be anything but boring. You know debaters have these little file cards with ammo written on them to counter their opponent. Why don’t serious news folk or politicians have a laptop full of video clips or news paper clips???
Gotta run, I hear snipper fire!!! Don’t worry! I have the experience to handle it!
USBB on March 25, 2008 at 9:07 AM
More examples of Democrat “misspeak” –
(what they say/what they really mean):
“compassion”/socialism
“peace”/socialism
“racial equality”/socialism
“gender equality”/socialism
“justice”/socialism
“fairness”/socialism
“save the planet”/socialism
Halley on March 25, 2008 at 9:07 AM
Tuzla in 96 and Tuzla 2008 is SAFE! Hungary loves Americans, has no snipers in the hills, offers first class hotels and fine restaurants. Hungary is not Kosovo or Bosnia!
Hillary lied. She always does. Children met her with flowers,
not bullets!
old trooper on March 25, 2008 at 9:08 AM
It does not matter any more if Obama or Clinton gets the nomination any more because we are going to have President McCain due to the fact the DNC decided to self destruct in the primary.
JeffinSac on March 25, 2008 at 9:15 AM
I think he’s practicing yelling ” B I N G O” somewhere in Arizona, in anticipation of his retirement in Florida, in November.
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM
John McCain (I’m no fan of) will be the next President of the United States; the American people have no other logical choice, and will get it right. Hopefully a true leader will emerge and become a viable option in 2012; until then, we are stuck with the choices in front of us.
Keemo on March 25, 2008 at 9:15 AM
You are trying to justify her lies by the actions of others. A liar is a liar and has nothing to do with others actions, the lies stand alone.
If you think it is
you diminish the valor and patriotism of those who have served their country. As a Marine I am disgusted at such an attitude.
Wade on March 25, 2008 at 9:17 AM
Since everything in life can be related to a Seinfeld episode…a couple of quotes from George Costanza:
“I lie every second of the day. My whole life is a sham.”
“Remember, Jerry, it’s not a lie – if you believe it.”
someguy on March 25, 2008 at 9:22 AM
Well said
Wade on March 25, 2008 at 9:23 AM
How in the hell does this woman seem to always get away with her lies? How can anyone in their right mind even think about voting for this pinoccio horse’s ass?
Winebabe on March 25, 2008 at 9:25 AM
I don’t know about McCain winning.
After the Republican and Democratic primaries, you can tell how the idiot voters are destroying the country by picking the wrong, unqualified, shallow, empty-suit candidates.
The majority of the country is going for the looks rather than the substance.
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 9:26 AM
Neither of them have a leg of ‘experience’ to stand on, so does this come as a surprise. No. It’s sad that the best the Dems can put forward are these two hacks.
Luckedout on March 25, 2008 at 9:29 AM
I’m not diminish anything or anybody.
Hussein will destroy the Military and America if he’s elected.
Hillary will not do as much damage as Hussein.
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 9:30 AM
Only brainwashed dimocrats believe anything Billary says. The fact that so many dims will still vote for this bimbo proves that the dimocratic NEA’s dumbing of America is hitting on all cylinders.
volsense on March 25, 2008 at 9:31 AM
Liars, liars, everywhere!
WisCon on March 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM
When you’ve spent the last 35 years behind the political curtain it’s easy to understand why you’ll never remember anything accurately again. The Clinton’s haven’t worked outside of politics since the mid 70s. They’ve been covering up their misdeeds so often that they cannot even remember standard events in their past.
gabriel sutherland on March 25, 2008 at 9:35 AM
Whether you die by a bullet or slow suffocation, you’re still a corpse.
Both will “kill” America, one will just go about it a different way.
Both will be a “Carter”, that is why…swallow it and support McCain. I hate his immigration stand, and other issues, but I love him for being a patriotic American who won’t let us be pushed around.
And I like how he is sitting back and letting the Dems cannibalize each other.
President McCain, will be a good president, maybe not a great one, but a good one…if not but for immigration, awwwwwgh!
right2bright on March 25, 2008 at 9:41 AM
Ironically, this probably does less damage than one would imagine. It merely confirms the truth even her supporters are well aware of; the Clintons are incapable of telling a straight story. And to their supporters, they don’t care.
michaelo on March 25, 2008 at 9:42 AM
All this won’t matter when Hillary announces, 3 days before the NC primary, that Harold Ford is her running mate.
Checkmate.
All future states will go to Hillary. Ford neutralizes the story that the black vote won’t go with her. The superdelegates go her way.
The MSM would be gaga over the first woman/ black (all at once) in the Oval Office.
faraway on March 25, 2008 at 9:47 AM
At the end of the day, in November, of course I will not support a Liberal.
All I’m saying is: McCain has not much of a chance.
McCain has to be more liberal than he is if he wants to be President.
And of course another big Islamic terrorist attack can help. Not that I’m asking for it. Nor for any of those candidates, in the first place. Out of 300 millions: NOTHING.
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 9:49 AM
Not only does he have a chance, he’s a virtual lock especially if Obama is the nominee barring some major unforseen development. Relax… The American people are smart. Trust in them.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Senator Clinton also ‘misspoke’ about
during 9/11.
Mulligan on March 25, 2008 at 9:58 AM
I think you should have put it like this:
The American people have allowed Bill and the Beast to fool them their entire political careers.
I sincerely hope this political season marks the end of the Clinton era.
belad on March 25, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Indy –
The problem with Hillary’s narrative isn’t that she made a statement, was called on it by the CBS News video and the admitted her error.
The sequence was that she made her statement about the Tuzla trip, got called on it by Sindbad, who was part of the travling group on her Bosnian visit and then the Clinton camp — assuming that as a washed-up comedian who was probably an Obama supporter, Sindbad could be given the full Lewinsky treatment — they went into immediate attack mode against him. And they believed they had succeeded in discrediting him, since he had no video, and Hillary went out a week after she made the statement the first time and made it again.
It was only at this point that the CBS video turned up to prove Sindbad was right and Hillary was wrong, and I’m sure there were Clinton staffers who poured over the video for several hours trying to figure out how to spin it as shots of a different airport, before finally having to admit defeat and actually have the missus admit that she had a couple of senior moments when she claimed to have been under attack.
Had they fessed up when called on it the first time, the “mis-statement” excuse would be a tad more palatable. But this equasion looks more like CBS Videotape=Blue Dress when it comes to getting the Clintons to admit the truth, and unlike Bill’s forced confession about Monica, she doesn’t have the bulk of the Democratic Party right now willing to believe any excuse she offers. When it comes to Hillary, all the Obama supporters have the same respect now for the Clintons’ truthfulness as Republicans have had since the post-Super Bowl interview about Gennifer Flowers on “60 Minutes” in 1992.
jon1979 on March 25, 2008 at 9:59 AM
I’m speechless.
Seriously.
Put all the epithets after “the American people” but do not include “smart.”
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM
So let’s crucify Hillary and coronate the America hater Hussein.
I’m sure many of you see something I don’t see.
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 10:06 AM
One of the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives are that Liberals think people are stupid and need the government to take care of them and make decision for them. Conservatives believe in individualism and the intelligence of the ordinary American citizen. Conservatives believe in the power of people to solve the problems of society and make good decisions and that government needs to stay out of their way.
Don’t let your pessimism get the best of you and cause you to go against one the most fundamental tenets of what is truly means to be a conservative.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2008 at 10:16 AM
You must have a high opinion of us to think anything we say or do regarding Hillary is going to affect who the Democrats pick as their nominee.
The Democrat Party is imploding before your very eyes. Take a step back and see the bigger picture. It will make you feel better.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2008 at 10:19 AM
I think we all have friends who remember past events a little differently than they actually happened–I’ve a very dear friend that does that all the time, and since I’ve heard her misrepresent events that we shared, I am always a little skeptical of any story she tells me. On one particular instance I have corrected her many many times over many years about what I really said, but she likes her version of the event and by now she thinks that’s the way it was.
Well, okay. Take it and enjoy. But a presidential candidate cannot do this sort of thing, as pretty much everything they do is scrutinized–even more so if you’re a former first lady whose movements are documented to the nth degree. If you remember things wrong–in this case very wrong–someone is going to notice and someone else is going to put the evidence on the Internet. Your credibility is toast. Or should be.
This is one reason why I could never run for public office–I would not want every lame word and deed dragged out, commented on, scrutinized, and analyzed. I’m too lazy to be that consistent–and I like my privacy way too much.
Bob's Kid on March 25, 2008 at 10:21 AM
The Clintons are so corrupt and amoral that they simply don’t know if they’re telling the truth or lying. The only alternative that the Democrats have is an empty suit who believes all white people are “typical” and has a radical white hating race baiter as a personal advisor.
rplat on March 25, 2008 at 10:25 AM
The actual meltdown occured years ago, now the remaining, noxious debris is seeping into the earth
Ann on March 25, 2008 at 10:30 AM
I can only go with the facts.
My facts are the primaries and the choices made by the American voters.
That’s all.
And they were not smart.
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 10:31 AM
I do like the new algorithm for Mrs Clinton where PIAPS now means Pinocchio in a Pants Suit. This one does not have any porcine red flag waving at potentially murderous ‘youth of undetermined origin’ although it could still offend some Italian liars….
LaMonte on March 25, 2008 at 10:32 AM
I hope the Democratic Party not just implodes, but disappears.
Boy! That make me feel even better!
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 10:34 AM
You mean like choosing Bush over Gore or Bush over Kerry?
Remember how the Liberals screamed how “stupid” Americans were for those votes? Remember how we marveled at their hubris? Don’t adopt their mindset just because you may not agree with some outcomes. These people you seem to have a low opinion of, built the greatest nation mankind has ever known. It was not built by a small elite class of “smart” people making all the decisions. Trust in your fellow American.
TheBigOldDog on March 25, 2008 at 10:36 AM
That is good.
faraway on March 25, 2008 at 10:37 AM
We shall see in November.
I don’t live far from Cuba.
If Hussein is president, I know where to go.
I got my cadillac-converted-to-raft ready to go :-)
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 10:42 AM
’scuse me if this is AOL ignorant, but what is the AOL Hot seat poll?
shooter on March 25, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Menopausal outrage, mostly.
techno_barbarian on March 25, 2008 at 10:45 AM
“Clinton and liar is a like butter and bread.
tx2654 on March 25, 2008 at 8:59 AM”
Yep; if you drop her, she always manages to land “lie side up.”
exhelodrvr on March 25, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Indy –
What the Democrats do between now and Denver is their battle. The fact that the big media is divided between Hillary and Obama (albeit leaning towards Barak about 2-1) means both sides will have ample ability to get their message out, either on a positive site or showing where the other side is lying, as with the CBS video on Hillary’s 1996 trip.
McCain may never get some people on the right to vote for him, and in that secnario, Hillary probably is better than Obama because she’s ruthless enough to turn half the Persian Gulf to glass if that’s what she needed to do to be re-elected in 2012. But right now all McCain has to do it sit tight, don’t alienate anyone else on the right who are part of the traditional GOP coalition, and let the horror of watching Hillary and Obama push their campaigns more and more to the left in the race to attract superdelegates make McCain’s case in November for the candidate.
McCain’s certainly capable of shooting his big mouth off about some issue or in some gratuitous way that ticks off the GOP base in some misguided effort to attract more “moderates”. But he doesn’t have to do that right now, because the moderates are coming to him, according to the latest polls, due to Obama’s statements and Hillary’s mis-statements. If he’s smart, he’ll keep up the current strategy for the next five months, acting almost like the incumbent, as long as the Democrats are content to keep trying to woo their fringe more than they’re trying to court the swing voters out there.
jon1979 on March 25, 2008 at 10:54 AM
This thread supports your claim.
a capella on March 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Looks like a grim scenario, on both sides of the aisle.
The outcome is unpredictable though.
We’ve seen how people voted in the primaries.
Radio talk tried to influence voters, it didn’t work.
Again, I repeat what I’m always certain of:
People vote for the looks, the “feel good about,” the “he’s, she’s one of us,” and now they’ll vote for the Black person because they want to send a message to others that they’re not racists.
I’ve seen White people expressing that view on TV.
How dumb is that?
Is this how you chose the president of the most powerful nation on earth? Based on selfish feelings and interests?
What happened to the experience? The qualifications? The ability to lead? The common sense and wise decision-making?
I’ve had it with those idiot voters.
I had a heated argument with some relative of mine because he is a Republican but he’ll vote for Hussein because he wants to send a message that he’s not racist.
Of course who knows what happens at the voting places? But at least one can tell after seeing Iowa and the rest.
Do you see how Hussein is using the race card and affirmative action?
He doesn’t have to say it explicitly.
Add to that, his hate for America.
The last straw.
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 11:19 AM
The Texas incident was real:-)
Indy Conservative on March 25, 2008 at 11:19 AM
Like Lurch’s Christmas in Cambiodia, the memory was “seared, seared” in her memory.
clghitis on March 25, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Say Ed, you’re from MN. Take a look at this.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/16971116.html
Maybe you need to start another thread.
cjs1943 on March 25, 2008 at 12:05 PM
We know that Clinton, Inc. will do anything to take back the Whitehouse, right?
Let’s see………. she/they lie. What’s next?
Steal?
Cheat?
Extort?
Embezzle?
Coerce?
Intimidate?
Kidnap?
Murd……………….?
Seven Percent Solution on March 25, 2008 at 12:11 PM
One more little lie relative to all the felonies and misdemeanors she and Bill have been party to is trivial. It will be old news in less than a week.
burt on March 25, 2008 at 12:34 PM
It doesn’t matter how she tries to spin it . . . misspoke still equals lied.
TooTall on March 25, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Hillary should quit pointing out the small stuff like Tuzla and point out the central role she played in one of the most dangerous situations of her political life. Even a terrorist threat at one of her campaign stops didn’t deter her. Her selfless courage here is truly inspirational- a must see for both supporters and critics. Never again doubt her ability to anniHIL-ATE the enemy. The full clip is here. All hail Hillary!
**MILD CONTENT WARNING IF AT WORK**
NightmareOnKStreet on March 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Hillary Rewrites History: Episode One:
George Washington’s father: Son, did you chop down that cherry tree?
George Washington: Father, I cannot misspeak! It was I!
pilamaye on March 25, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Rush says today there are 4 documented occurrences when Hillary lied about the Tuzla incident. She misspoke at least 4 times on this.
JiangxiDad on March 25, 2008 at 12:53 PM
If you have never been under sniper fire, how is it possible to “misspeak” about being under sniper fire? One would think that, in all of life’s experiences, being under sniper fire would be one of the most memorable.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to “misspeak” about being under sniper fire. She lied. It’s what she does.
OhEssYouCowboys on March 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Hillary, like her husband, are superb at the art of lying.
Kini on March 25, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Only thing to figure out at this point is who taught who first?
pilamaye on March 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Every time I see Chelsea I can’t get over how much she looks like Webb Hubbell. I tried to find the link to the morphing picture, but strangely enough, it’s gone. Perhaps an offer was made that couldn’t be refused.
The far left psycho-analysis mantra: ‘You are as sick as your secrets’ fits here, but this is one thing that won’t be revealed by the Clinton camp. ‘Poor’ Chelsea might do something rash…but when she realizes that her Mother needed street cred with mothers and her dad is sterile from the mumps, (or HRC chose Webb’s genes over Bill’s, whatever), she will love her devoted mom all the more.
Christine on March 25, 2008 at 1:54 PM
I blame their religious upbringing. Paging Rev. Wright!
Kini on March 25, 2008 at 2:09 PM
With no security clearance, how could she become involved in national security issues, unless she wants to admit she did it without proper clearance. That would go over well, I’m sure.
The lady has had a problem with the truth for some time, just that the other side was never believed. But this time there is a smoking gun; a video that has been withheld by CBS for years. She also wrote about this lie in her book, so she didn’t just misspeak. With any other person, this proven lie would give creditability to all of the other witnesses that were discredited, going all the way back to the FBI files supposedly she wanted collected on her “enemies”. Even Dick Morris confirmed that according to his hooker-girlfriend at the time. So does a hooker have more creditability now than Mrs. Clinton?
amr on March 25, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Sleep deprived? Mis-spoke? It was a prepared speech, right?
budorob on March 25, 2008 at 2:36 PM
jon1979 on March 25, 2008 at 9:59 AM
You are absolutely right. She did not “misspeak”!! The Clintons have far too many instances when they tell the truth only when they are forced to do so by absolute and incontrovertible evidence. This was one of those times.
INC on March 25, 2008 at 2:42 PM
And this would be a surprise to everyone why exactly?
Shes a Clinton, and therefore a liar.
Viper1 on March 25, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Absolutely. This one is such a whopper that it’s comical.
The plane would never have approached, much less land in, a hot zone with the sitting first lady and her daughter aboard.
If there had been an attack and it was a complete surprise, with all the US media aboard. That story would have been 24/7 for days.
DuffBeer on March 25, 2008 at 4:17 PM
She mis-spun it.
Maquis on March 25, 2008 at 4:24 PM
C’mon now. It we, the American people who are the morons. The wife of the US President gets shot at by sniper fire in Bosnia, and we just say big deal?
Did it really need to take a CBS video to know this was fake? How in the world could the wife of the US president come under fire and it isn’t one of the biggest stories of the year?
I believed her, btw.
JiangxiDad on March 25, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Odd that she miss-poke the same story numerous times in the past month. They say if you tell a lie enough eventually you believe it yourself.
Buttercup on March 25, 2008 at 5:10 PM
You don’t “misspeak” when it’s in the text of your prepared remarks that you later repeatedly reference. “Mislead” and “lie” are the operative words here.
“Without experience or credibility, just what can she offer?”
You’re missing the point: Precisely her ability to lie shamelessly on cue is Hillary’s strongest suit.
And don’t kid yourselves, there are plenty of her supporters out there who regard it as a core competency and standard operating procedure over those “messy approaches” where you actually have to, you know, keep to your word and, like, commit to things.
sanguine4 on March 25, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Rush just destroyed her with audio sound-bites during today’s show; which is to be expected. Turns out that Hillary has told a similar version of that lie on at least (4) other occasions. What I didn’t expect was to see CBS (Katie Kouric) destroying Hillary with actual footage to go along with sound-bites. Now CBS had this footage for all of this time and just now came forward, but they did finally come forward. Sinbad (the comedian) was the first to come forward and bust Hillary’s balls; maybe Sinbad made it possible for CBS.
Dang, I hope to see Hillary in this race until the bitter end; this is really fun to watch. Talk about poetic justice; wow…
Keemo on March 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM
you are right that anyone who believed this BS story to begin with is a moron.
I mean, the Secret Service won’t let the first lady out of the car at a shopping mall if something doesn’t seem kosher I can’t imagine they would fly into an area where the situation was the landing strip taking heavy sniper fire.
The scariest part is the comfort she has with spouting out and out lies that she knows are lies. I know the
liberalscommunists like to crow ‘Bush lied, people died!’ but his ‘lie’ was believing a German intelligence report and repeating it.Anyone backing her for president has to have some seriously flawed judgment or out and out absence of any kind of morality.
MannyT-vA on March 25, 2008 at 5:41 PM
I heard it on the radio and she framed the story as “I remember particularly” or “I particularly remember”. That sounds a a lot like “seared in my memory”.
The more vehemently a Democrat asserts something, the more likely it is a lie.
Buddahpundit on March 25, 2008 at 6:07 PM
If Mrs. Clinton says she “mis-spoke” about the Bosnia trip because she was “sleep-deprived” in the middle of the afternoon (or evening depending on when her remarks were given), what kind of gaffe would she commit if she were ever called upon to answer the ultimate sleep-depriver, the dreaded “3 a.m. call”????????
Mike D. on March 25, 2008 at 6:36 PM
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