Over a week ago, it was heavily out on the web, and particularly on conservative talk radio nationwide. Hillary Clinton, on at least four different occasions, regaled audiences with the harrowing tale of her trip to Bosnia, dodging sniper fire and having to cancel the planned outdoor festivities to welcome her to the country.
The only problem: it was a lie. Media photos and video footage, as well as her recently released White House papers, show Hillary and her daughter Chelsey standing at plane side in Bosnia, listening politely as little schoolchildren sang and presented them with gifts. Clearly there was no sniper fire and the welcoming ceremonies were definitely held, outdoors at plane side with no interruption.
Strangely, it took until today for the mass media to pick up the story, with CBS finally running extensive footage from its archives of the event itself in 1996, and then of Hillary regaling audiences in the last week with the breathless details of her scary mission to Bosnia. This finally forced Hillary to acknowledge that she had "miss-spoken" and her memory had failed her on all the details of her Bosnia trip 12 years ago.
It reminds me of the old story of the preacher, sitting at home with his family at Sunday dinner after church, when his little son pipes up and says "Daddy, was that the truth or were you just preachin'?"
Rush Limbaugh, currently running Operation Chaos on his daily radio program to get Republicans in Pennsylvania, as he had previously in Texas and Ohio, to re-register as Democrats so they can vote for Hillary in the primary on April 22, to keep the Democratic presidential race interesting clear up until the convention in August in Denver. He was asked if it had shaken his faith in Hillary, and if he was still urging his listeners to vote for her in the Pennsylvania primary. He said "why would a Clinton acting totally in the character we've come to expect, dissuade me now? Hillary tellling another lie? What's different or unexpected about that?
Most likely the mass media, so heavily in Obama's corner, had to get his problems with his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, out of the news, and a new Clinton scandal was the perfect way to do that.
Not only Hillary, but the mass media too, are acting totally in character. What else would you expect?
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