W3MIV
03-21-2008, 09:07 PM
As in that old children's taunt, "liar, liar..."
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/03/hillarys_balkan_adventures_par.html
I would say it runs in the family, but that would be wrong. She married INTO the family. So, maybe both families breed folks with a shaky grip on truth?
Hillary Clinton has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retelling, she was sent to places that her husband, President Clinton, could not go because they were "too dangerous." When her account was challenged by one of her traveling companions (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/03/sinbad_unloads_on_hillary_clin.html), the comedian Sinbad, she upped the ante and injected even more drama into the story. In a speech earlier this week, she talked about "landing under sniper fire" and running for safety with "our heads down."
There are numerous problems with Clinton's version of events.
Now, who was it that you wanted answering that phone at 0300? Obama? or Walter Mitty in drag?
Had Hillary Clinton's plane come "under sniper fire" in March 1996, we would certainly have heard about it long before now. Numerous reporters, including the Washington Post's John Pomfret, covered her trip. A review of nearly 100 news accounts of her visit shows that not a single newspaper or television station reported any security threat to the First Lady. "As a former AP wire service hack, I can safely say that it would have been in my lead had anything like that happened," said Pomfret.
According to Pomfret, the Tuzla airport was "one of the safest places in Bosnia" in March 1996, and "firmly under the control" of the 1st Armored Division.
To paraphrase Alice, it seems she is growing "desperater and desperater."
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/03/hillarys_balkan_adventures_par.html
I would say it runs in the family, but that would be wrong. She married INTO the family. So, maybe both families breed folks with a shaky grip on truth?
Hillary Clinton has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retelling, she was sent to places that her husband, President Clinton, could not go because they were "too dangerous." When her account was challenged by one of her traveling companions (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/03/sinbad_unloads_on_hillary_clin.html), the comedian Sinbad, she upped the ante and injected even more drama into the story. In a speech earlier this week, she talked about "landing under sniper fire" and running for safety with "our heads down."
There are numerous problems with Clinton's version of events.
Now, who was it that you wanted answering that phone at 0300? Obama? or Walter Mitty in drag?
Had Hillary Clinton's plane come "under sniper fire" in March 1996, we would certainly have heard about it long before now. Numerous reporters, including the Washington Post's John Pomfret, covered her trip. A review of nearly 100 news accounts of her visit shows that not a single newspaper or television station reported any security threat to the First Lady. "As a former AP wire service hack, I can safely say that it would have been in my lead had anything like that happened," said Pomfret.
According to Pomfret, the Tuzla airport was "one of the safest places in Bosnia" in March 1996, and "firmly under the control" of the 1st Armored Division.
To paraphrase Alice, it seems she is growing "desperater and desperater."