Posted on 05/23/2016 5:03:12 AM PDT by McGruff
One of our all-time great fact checks was The Fact Checker’s March 21, 2008, report on Hillary Clinton’s false claim that she arrived in Bosnia “under sniper fire.” The article, written by our former colleague Michael Dobbs, was quickly followed by CBS News, PolitiFact and others — and ultimately became a defining moment in the 2008 campaign for the former first lady. The incident even earns a mention in a recent attack ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Readers constantly ask us about Clinton’s Bosnia tale, and ask whether we will fact check it. As noted, The Fact Checker did so eight years ago. But the original version now appears on the web in very small type, so here it is again. We have also included new material on what happened next...
There are numerous problems with Clinton’s version of events.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
# 18 Thanks for the laugh. Good video!
“In April 1996 an Air Force VIP plane goes down as it lands in nearby Croatia. All passengers and crew are killed except one crew woman who mysteriously dies on the ambulance to the hospital.”
Don’t forget that Brown had a head wound that could not be accounted for, and that the reported “storm” did not occur.
That’s right. If you self-identify as a WWII pilot, nobody can contradict your claim.
I am an overweight old woman with good eye-hand co-ordination but no particular athletic ability. However, I have come to realize that I self-identify as a professional football player. So the NFL is discriminating against me if they don’t pick me in the next round of drafts.
You’re in!!
Winnibago double shift slant right on 2.
Yipes! I suppose that is a call for a play, and I know nothing about football. (But, of course, in the new paradigm, that does not matter, right?)
Exactly right! Nothing matters anymore, there is no reality. Just make it up on the run.
I’m on my way to the Town hall this morning. I feel like the mayor and will be taking over his office for awhile.
Yes, they are determined to destroy Western civilization by any means necessary.
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