[Cicero]

"If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election, then he should abide by the same rules that every other candidate will have to follow," she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer (.pdf) Dec. 28.

"He could be the only person on the ballot. I don't think that's a real election," she told ABC's George Stephanopolous December 30.

The problem is that Blitzer and Stephanopolous are political pimps, not news reporters. They haven't the faintest idea what they are talking about. They ask hillary questions about Bhutto and Pakistan because that's the latest cause celebre, but I doubt whether they even noticed that hillary mispoke. They probably know even less about it than she does, although they're standing there like pompous experts interviewing her.

So, what are they going to say now? That she was wrong and they are stupid? I don't think so.

[Tweeker]

I find it interesting that her staff did not correct her after the first taping. Could be they fear delivering her bad news or correcting her? Therefore the emperoress has no clothes scenario occurs.