On Saturday, NewsBusters asked, "Will Media Pounce on Hillary's Lie About Dead 'Uninsured' Pregnant Woman?
Hours later, ABC's "World News" certainly did, actually leading the program with yet another example of how candidate Clinton loves to play fast and loose with the facts when delivering stump speeches.
Anchor David Muir began the program:
Good evening. They are the stories told on the stump. More than a year into this Democratic fight for the nomination, it would be impossible to tally jus how many times Senators Clinton and Obama have shared a story of someone they met or a hardship they heard about while campaigning. But what happens when that story doesn't add up? There are new questions tonight about Hillary Clinton's tale of a pregnant woman who lost her life because she was denied health care. Now the hospital says that's not what happened. And we begin with ABC's John Hendren tonight.
JOHN HENDREN: Hillary Clinton often tells the story of the pregnant Ohio woman turned away from the hospital because she lacks $100 for a checkup, she returns in an ambulance. In a tragedy with a moral, first the baby dies, then the mother. Or so the story goes.
HILLARY CLINTON: A young woman and her baby would die because she didn't have health insurance or $100 to get examined.
HENDREN: The lesson? Universal health care would have saved her life. The subtext? Only Clinton supports universal health care. There's just one problem with that story -- the hospital now says it's not true. O'Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio, says the woman was insured and she was never denied treatment. After hospital officials demanded Clinton stop telling the gruesome tale she did not repeat it today. The Clinton campaign says she was just repeating the story she was told by this deputy sheriff.
DEPUTY SHERIFF: I'd like to tell you the story about a young woman I know that didn't have health insurance.
HENDREN: It is the latest story questioned after Clinton acknowledged she wrongly claimed she had dodged sniper fire during a visit to Bosnia. She made light of those comments this week on "The Tonight Show."
CLINTON: I was worried I wasn't going to make it. I was pinned down by sniper fire.
HENDREN: Clinton and Obama are due to meet for a Democratic dinner in Butte, Montana, a state that wasn't supposed to matter in the primary contest. It's the last state to vote on June 3 and in this nail biter of an election, every state counts. And David, it's not yet clear how much this could hurt Hillary Clinton but party officials say she needs to win big to keep her campaign alive and this was another day when she could ill-afford to be off message.
Nice report. Readers are also encouraged to watch the segment immediately following which featured Jake Tapper discussing in some detail both of Clinton and Obama's tall stories told during this campaign.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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Senator Clinton
April 6, 2008 - 14:00 ET by Uphillneeds to begin her stories this way:
"This one time, when I was all by myself with nobody around that had a tape recorder or a camera..."
Only then will we be unable to catch her in a lie.
AND
April 6, 2008 - 19:36 ET by JoelCT"...and there was no DNA evidence left behind on dresses or anything like that..."
My daughter took a trip to DC one time and said there was a guy out in front of the White House holding a sign that said, "God Bless The Blue Dress!"
Thank goodness she was old enough to know what it meant, and I didn't have to figure out how to explain it to her!
The media's thrown their lot
April 6, 2008 - 14:08 ET by Troika37The media's thrown their lot in with Obama. They will do their damndest to ensure he gets the nomination, and then they will turn their guns on McCain. Anything short of an Obama presidency will be considered the Barackolypse.
Please--- she lies
April 6, 2008 - 15:18 ET by docbHer lies- like her innuendo's and her slams and racial slurs are part and parcel of who she is and an indictation of what kind of person we would be sending back to the whitehouse to burnish Bclintons image and scrub the rest of the clinton disgrace. Let this old pony run herself into the ground--that is the only way America will be rid of her.
She started early--Here is another one:
Hillary Clinton's former House Judiciary Committee boss, Jerry Zeifman, says he fired her "because she was a liar, and part of a cabal to block Richard Nixon's impeachment to avoid earlier Kennedy scandals coming out." The American Spectator's Philip Klein: "This revelation means that we can draw a straight line of lying encompassing nearly her entire 35-year career, from Watergate to Bosnia."
"Because she was a liar," Zeifman said in an interview last week. "She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality."
I don't disagree with a
April 6, 2008 - 16:41 ET by Troika37I don't disagree with a single word you've written. It is only now, however, that the media has a candidate they like better, that Hillary's lies are exposed in the press. In the past, her 'misstatements' (please) have been glossed over or ignored altogether. It's interesting to see the media finally turning on the Clintons. For most of her political career, the one thing she could count on was the MSM. With the advent of Obama's campaign, however, the MSM has a new favourite. Hillary will finally be exposed to the public by the same media that has protected her all these years.
Poetic justice. How high
April 6, 2008 - 20:22 ET by doug1950Poetic justice. How high they rise before they fall, and their fall was great. Having been lulled into a false sense of any kind of loyalty from the MSM, they have lied so much they can no longer keep them straight or the lid on the lying jar. All her and Bill's lies will become daily fodder for discussion. Makes me wonder how they can even show their faces in public. Apparently they have no sense of shame like normal people. I believe that qualifies for mental illness.
The woman just isn't truthful!!
April 6, 2008 - 17:34 ET by connmanHillary Clinton's former House Judiciary Committee boss, Jerry Zeifman (a life long Democrat). Is only Neil Boortz reporting this story? Read the whole story, just another reason why this witch is scary. Regarding this post, let me get this straight: she's out there spewing this BS because some Deputy sherrif filled her ear? Jeez are they not vetting anything anymore?
This town needs an enema! - The Joker
cm... I'd like to hear from
April 6, 2008 - 17:39 ET by bigtimercm... I'd like to hear from the deputy sheriff right about now...
Wonder just who he is and what he has to say about this all...
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
Prior to...
April 6, 2008 - 14:14 ET by dmntd1Prior to the liberals stating "see, the media isn't biased", I want to state that "see, liberals DO tend to eat their own!"
Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his imminent relationship with a superior law and with an objective will that transcends the particular individual - Mussolini
I'm just waiting for her
April 6, 2008 - 14:18 ET by fitzfongI'm just waiting for her stump speech that begins, "this one time, at band camp..."
Or better yet
April 6, 2008 - 15:02 ET by Prester John"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away......"
Or Perhaps this
April 6, 2008 - 16:39 ET by Cella"It was a dark and stormy night...."
Well, yeah, the story
April 6, 2008 - 14:55 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsWell, yeah, the story wasn't true, but it could have been.
Just ask Dan Rather.
So there.
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America in decline
April 6, 2008 - 15:07 ET by jondelwicheI find it most troubling that she blatantly and unabashedly
lies about everyday experiences.
The media then runs stories that every politican "lies,"
but the examples used for the other major candidates
don't even come close.
How is she even in the running at this point?
Her continued candidacy is the surest sign of America's steep
decline!
Well now, I am somewhat
April 6, 2008 - 15:29 ET by bigtimerWell now, I am somewhat surprised that abc is critizicing both candidates with their outright lies....hmmmm....makes one wonder what is going on here with the msm...reporting the facts, telling the truth...
Can't be that pigs flew can it?
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
I saw something fly over
April 6, 2008 - 18:41 ET by mostlymoderateI saw something fly over earlier and it WASN'T a bird or a plane. Hmmm...
I saw that lying spinster
April 7, 2008 - 09:19 ET by misterbee241I saw that lying spinster Lanny Davis on Fox this morning. I thought, let's see how you spin this one, Lanny. Well, he did. He started the interview talking and wouldnt let Gretchen Carlson get a word in edgewise. She was clearly annoyed and kept trying to break in but he kept on and on about how everybody EXCEPT Hillary and the deputy was lying and how the "essence" of the story was true. He then proceeded to tell Gretchen how to produce the news.
Why Fox continues to give this despicable lying, spinning Clinton hack credibility is beyond me. I've gotten to the point that unless I mute the TV when he comes on I have a tendency to throw the remote through the screen. But this one time I wanted to hear his spinning lies and he didnt disappoint.
There is none so blind as they that won’t see. Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
Yeah, Lanny Davis really is
April 7, 2008 - 14:31 ET by fitzfongYeah, Lanny Davis really is a smarmy, disgusting creep...which makes him a perfect mouthpiece for the Pantsuit Machine. I remember that scumbag coming out to California to interfere with the scheduled execution of some monster who had brutally murdered four people at a house...one of those murdered was a young boy who was visiting on a sleepover (if my memory serves me correctly, there was one survivor...the son of the murdered parents/friend of the kid spending the night...I believe he managed to survive by playing dead). Lanny Davis turns up on a local radio show to advocate for the murdering POS and tries to filibuster like I imagine he did with Gretchen this morning. When the hosts refused to stand for it, he hung up in a huff. Then called back, hung up in a huff, called back and hung up in a huff. Lanny Davis is a filthy cockroach, an attention whore and an unhinged lunatic.
Minimum Wage?
April 7, 2008 - 09:43 ET by coffee260If you listen to Hillary tell this story, you'll notice she says the lady made
minimum wage. But if you listen to the sheriff deputy, he never mentions minimum wage. He just says she didn't make
a lot of money. So where did Hillary get that she made minimum wage? Maybe she made more than minimum wage? Is this important? Probably not. But it goes to her cre-d-i...Never mind. She has none.
→ Minimum Wage
April 7, 2008 - 09:50 ET by Cool ArrowBut she was insured, so Hillary's red herring didn't throw the dogs off the scent. (red herring, btw, refers to the method of training foxhounds).
Hillary and Obama are so busy spouting lies they can't remember a time when honesty was important.
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Hillary's stories
April 7, 2008 - 17:20 ET by SlasherAnd there are people that want her to be the President of the United States? Whoa! I'm not sure there would be many world leaders that could trust her, based on the outright lies and spin she puts out.
The woman is desperate in trying to fullfill her quest as our leader. She couldn't lead a one car parade without screwing it up! Maybe she needs some new dishes from the whitehouse.
Hillarys fables....I think
April 7, 2008 - 17:29 ET by bassndudeHillarys fables....I think John should keep her around as court jester.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Believe me, if this becomes
April 7, 2008 - 19:35 ET by JohnLockeBelieve me, if this becomes even the slightest thorn in Hillary's side, the left is going to rush to compare it to Reagan's "welfare queen" story. I already heard Lanny Davis try to put it on the same level as Snipergate on the Sean Hannity Show.
"I think government is a necessary evil, like, say, motion picture agents." -John Wayne