Hillary’s War
UPDATE: Change of subject please. Hill tells Trib-Review, I would not have had spritual relations with that man.
Hillary dodging sniper fire in Tuzla, Bosnia, 1996. Note look of terror on traumatized young Chelsea’s face as her mother bravely throws herself on the children to shield them with her body. Hang on, I miswrote …
There we were, dodging sniper fire in Bosnia. Things were looking grim.
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.
Then things got grimmer, when it all turned out to be more of a fish tale than a war story.
Now let me tell you what I can remember, OK — because what I was told was that we had to land a certain way and move quickly because of the threat of sniper fire. So I misspoke …
I hate to get particular about this kind of thing. It’s one thing when John Kerry makes much of the wartime command he bailed on. Reasonable people can debate whether three-scratches-and-a-sayonara commends someone for the position of commander in chief or not. It’s another thing altogether to lie about war experiences when you’ve never heard a shot fired in anger.
You know, on second thought it looks like combat-hardened Hill might be grabbing the kid for use as a human shield. Gotta be careful. Don’t want to get lumped with the Right-Wing Hate Machine.
Gateway’s got the subtitles.
Michelle has a meanspirited caption contest.
Hotair: YouTube leads MSM.
Powerline, with cruelest cut: It lacked the added virtue of being true.
Hyscience: Come, come, let’s not be stingy in our recognition of misspeaks.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:51 am on Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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March 25th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Was it seared, seared into her memory? Does she have something that was given to her as a memento, maybe a bullet casing found near the sniper’s nest?
Anyway, I guess this is CBS’s official endorsement of Barack Obama. Sorry, but I can’t see them doing this if Hillary had already won the nomination and McCain was her opponent.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:33 am
To me, that whole incident is symptomatic of the Clintons (both of them) habit of dissembling and prevaricating in the retelling or re-casting of an event (any event) in order to show themselves in the best light or the light they want to be seen in.
Bill Clinton’s retelling (attempting to justify) to Chris Wallace of how and why he didn’t “git” bin laden is a perfect example of him employing the prevaricating spin.
This is who they are, both of them.
The Clintons continue to use this device (words to spin an event to make them look smart or courageous or something) because they’ve gotten away with it in “the press” for a very long time.
Luckily, in the Bosnia example, the news camera caught the truth.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
An apt description of Hillary’s game from David Brooks, in the NYTimes…
For nearly 20 years, she has been encased in the apparatus of political celebrity. Look at her schedule as first lady and ever since. Think of the thousands of staged events, the tens of thousands of times she has pretended to be delighted to see someone she doesn’t know, the hundreds of thousands times she has recited empty clichés and exhortatory banalities, the millions of photos she has posed for in which she is supposed to appear empathetic or tough, the billions of politically opportune half-truths that have bounced around her head.
No wonder the Clinton campaign feels impersonal. It’s like a machine for the production of politics. It plows ahead from event to event following its own iron logic.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
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March 25th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Hillary a liar? Not at all. She’s a victim…
The CBS Evening News story broadcast last night proves once and for all that Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton indeed continues to suffer from Partzheimer’s (a.k.a., Convenient Memory-Loss Syndrome) as first highlighted in a Bob McCarty Writes post one year ago this month and reiterated in posts March 27, 2007 and Sept. 12, 2007.
Now the question is “Why did it take CBS, the New York Times and others in the mainstream media so long to report on the former first lady’s affliction?”
March 25th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Gosh, did the CIA give her a magic hat afterwards? If she wins the nomination, will she “report for doody”?
You just can’t make this stuff up (although, apparently, Clintons do).
March 25th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Hillary’s just offered explanation for her misrepresentation (last week) of her landing in Bosnia in 1996
“I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.”
Geez, Allah willing, she wouldn’t be groggy answering the White House telephone at 3 a.m.
March 25th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Jules, imagine this Bizarro World unfold before your bleary morning eyes: Arriving at the newsroom, you find oodles of Secret Service lugs, sun-glassed and waxy, talking into their cuff links.
Walking side by side and smiling, are Hillary Rodham Clinton and Richard Mellon Scaife.
I folded myself into the copy for my next story, fearing the apocalypse was upon us.
What a most curious day.