Posted on 02/17/2006 6:25:42 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax
"Stories a lie ? She did or didn't get this "award" !??!?!
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She got an award. She did NOT get a Purple Heart.
no I just wanted to get this cleared up
Thank you
Kerry: I've got THREE purple Hearts
Clinton: Well I've got one and I didn't even get shot!
McCain: Can I get another one?
She was not awarded
"The Order of the Purple Heart for Military Merit"
Instead, she "got" the
"Inspirational Leadership Award" from the Military Order of the Purple Heart
Big difference... but too difficult for News Max to grab.
I just know no better way of contacting an Admin Moderator. I agree with that as well. Some sorta tag needs to be given to them until they rise back up to a level above National Enquirer.
I believe he is correct.
Hillary is spoouting a lie, a bogus award that is not the real thing, hoping to get some milage out of it from the uninformed. Sounds like NewsMax may be doing the same the other way.
The story title was changed at the source and updated accordingly. Following our posting rules, we use published titles. If you want them to change, I suggest contacting the poster of this thread.
Give HRC's staff a little credit on this one, tho. Even her website has a better headline than NewsMax:
"Senator Clinton Receives Military Order of the Purple Heart Inspirational Leadership Award"
http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=251629&&
I will do so. Thanks for clarification! May we at least get some tag or something? ;-)
Did she include in her statement how much she hates the military and tried to get it so that military uniforms would not be worn inside the white house?
I'm glad they changed the title. This thread probably had something to do with that. I still believe that NewsMax stories are better placed in Bloggers/Personal. Misleading headlines are a commonplace there.
That, of course, is not my decision...so, now that they've changed the title, I will shut up.
Thanks, AM.....this incident may encourage the folks at NewsMax to be honest in the future.
Thank God I don't have one now and I pray for my brothers and sisters who unfortunately had to bleed to get a Purple Heart. Whomever is in charge of the organization should be run out under a torch.
Shameful!
I knew that I was talking of the award mentioned.....thanks !
I knew that I was talking of the award mentioned.....thanks !
They've changed the headline over at NewsMax. They didn't change the lead paragraph, though, which reads:
"New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has put in for a Purple Heart - and she received the decoration yesterday. "
Feh!
Relax, FRiend....the story is fabrication by NewsMax. In other words, HRC did not receive the Purple Heart. NewsMax lied in order to make it appear that she did.
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