Posted on 03/25/2008 7:04:16 AM PDT by LJayne
By popular demand (meaning regular commenter DEC, who writes the bizarrely riveting blog Jungle Trader), herewith the CBS News report that tags Hillary with having fabricated "sniper fire" during her trip to Bosnia back in the 1990s. It rather graphically shows that Hillary made the story up out of whole cloth. Hillary's campaign now says that she "misspoke," whatever that means.
This is a perplexing gaffe, because it is so easily revealed as wrong. There were many reporters with rolling cameras following Hillary around Bosnia, and the absence of actual snipers or even sounds that might have been confused with snipers is demonstrable fact. So while it is true that many politicians are unreconstructed embellishers, it is strange that such an experienced one would be caught "exaggerating" to reporters about something many of those same reporters witnessed only a bit more than a decade before.
The other explanation is that Hillary had a brain fart. Perhaps she had heard sniper fire somewhere else and been hustled back into some other helicopter, and now she has the time and place confused. I'm fifteen years younger than Hillary and am starting to make that sort of mistake in my own memory (OK, not about dodging sniper fire while I zig and zag to a helicopter, but I've not led such a dramatic life), so if she can cough up another sniper fire experience and admit she was confused that would be fine with me.
Of course, confessing to a faulty memory about having been shot at would make it difficult for an average person to stand on the same stage as John McCain, but I think we learned a long time ago that Clintons do not have normal shame impulses.
Both explanations are incomplete, though, because neither discharges the underlying question raised by the sniper gaffe. If Hillary thought she could get away with a wild embellishment of a public moment that was recorded by the flower and chivalry of the White House press corps, is she completely delusional? If not, and if there is no other "sniper fire" incident in some other war-torn place that she may be remembering instead, what was Lady McHillary seeing when she imagined her snipers of the mind?
She didn’t misspeak. She flat out made shit up.
If the SS agents had ever endangered the First Lady, any First Lady, by making her run through sniper fire, they would be fired in a New York minute.
They got used to being able to lie with impunity in the 90s. Back then, there is no way the press would have called them on such a lie, any more than they would show Bill Clinton faking tears at Ron Brown's funeral. They were part of the team. Now, the team is mostly for Obama, so they are learning that they can't get away what they used to.
My take on both her and Bill is that they are certifiable pathological liars and extremely evil too.....
Ironic to witness Hillary, the former young attorney who worked so diligently on the impeachment of Richard Nixon, adopt his language in using the term “misspoke,” to cover her own Nixonian behavior.
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