[radar101]

Who do you believe?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Lol! More likely, “Take the $100 or we kill you!”

[myuhaul]

Which Clinton stiffed the waitress and with what was she stiffed?

[mmyers]

Funny, another news outley said the bill was $57 and a tip of $100 was left.

[Republicus2001]

Hurry hurry mainstream media! Damage control. Hurry hurry NPR - quickly no time to waste. Correct the error! Now!
Hurry up and by the time I tune in the evening news it will be sooo yesterday, it will be old news and time to move on.

[MrB]

Do they say whether this was “found” before or after the dust up in the media?

[skinkinthegrass]

Who do you believe?....certainly not $hrillary, If It told the truth....Its' very rare.

[ozzymandus]

Not the first time hillary has been caught stiffing wait staff. This is an obvious cover-up.

[weegee]

Was it found in the trunk of a hurricane ravaged car?
Or amidst billing records?

Maybe it was in Sandy Burglar’s socks.

[Freedumb]

I think they found the tip in the box of records from the Rose Law firm.

[Izzy Dunne]

Since this story aired, Hillary Clinton's campaign contacted NPR to say that the campaign paid Maid-Rite a bill for $100 for food for the day of Clinton's visit and left $57 in tip money. NPR contacted Maid-Rite manager Brad Crawford, who confirmed that a bill was paid and tip money was left.

So, apparently, NPR contacted NEITHER the Clinton campaign, nor the restaurant folks before airing the story.

[Miss Didi]

Hillary Clinton at a Maid-Rite restaurant during a recent bus tour of Iowa. That is where she met waitress Anita Esterday.

“I don't think she understood at all what I was saying.”
Anita Esterday on Hillary Clinton

[DoughtyOne]

Well the amount of the tip certainly raises some flags for me. This wouldn’t be the normal tip and it raises more questions than it resolves.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“where Hillary was sitting, there was no tip left.”

Hillary was confused. /s

[r9etb]

"where Hillary was sitting, there was no tip left."

OK, let's assume that's correct. Can you say, "Political Tin Ear?" If your candidate is running for president, who in hell else would you want to leave a tip for the waitress?

If this was a Republican, they'd get more mileage out of this than "potatoe."

[AlaskaErik]

I guess if someone’s going to get stiffed, it’ll be Bill doing it...probably to a young intern!

[SkyDancer]

I remember watching a movie with the family of Humphrey Bogart’s first movie - it took place in an out of the way cafe in the desert .... on the wall over the cash register was a sign that read “Keep your money - Tipping is Un-American” .... movie was made in 1935 ...

My folks don’t tip - if the server needs more money they should go to their boss not expect the public to pay their wages ... do you tip if some salesperson helps you find a shirt or something? Why only at restaurants and several other businesses ....??? Ok, tip the bartender at your favorite watering hole hoping you’ll get a little more but that’ll stop when they all go to computer pouring as in several places I’ve been ....

Just being curious here ... not wanting to develop this post into a debate ....

Thanks,
Regards,
Jane

[Recovering_Democrat]

At first, the story line went like this: Sen. Hillary Clinton may have committed the ultimate political culinary sin -- not tipping the waitress.

But the story was wrong: NPR has retracted its initial report, a nasty little anecdote about iClnton meeting a working-mom waitress at the Maid-Rite eatery in Iowa over the summer, using her story in a speech -- and then stiffing her on the tip.

Now NPR has confirmed the tip with an editor's note: "Since this story aired, Hillary Clinton's campaign contacted NPR to say that the campaign paid Maid-Rite a bill for $100 for food for the day of Clinton's visit and left $57 in tip money. NPR contacted Maid-Rite manager Brad Crawford, who confirmed that a bill was paid and tip money was left.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. I always leave the tip with the manager--I never leave it for the waitress. Especially if I'm leaving a BIG tip, like $57.

[Misschuck]

UPDATE: The Clinton campaign contacted ABC News to assert that they did, contrary to Esterday’s claim to NPR, pay $157 for food at Maid-Rite and left a $100 tip to be split among the staff.

Sensing the story was reaching the tipping point, ABC News’ Eloise Harper contacted Brad Crawford, manager of Maid-Rite caught in the political mixer, who said the senator’s staff did pay a tip but “it might have not been disbursed properly.”

from the Drudge link

But it sounds like the waitress still didn’t get anything. Or the Clinton camp is lying, who would think!!

[Palladin]

You can’t bet the tip never came out of the Hildebeast’s own pocket!

[dandelion]

If the owner Mr. Crawford was not there that day, how would he have known that Ms. Clinton left a tip? And if he found out from an employee, how come the employee called to tell him (the owner) but not the manager and the waitress? It simply would not make sense that the absent owner would know, but that the manager and the waitresses ON DUTY would not know.

If this is found to be true, one could only assume that the anonymous employee who called the tip and payment into the owner, post facto, should be charged with stealing the tip and the payment since it was not turned over to the manager or employees...