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Hillary: Forgetful at 11, Fierce at 3

By Mark Finkelstein
Created 2008-04-11 08:34

mid-morning [1]on at least one occasion.

  • It wasn't "one time." She made the statement several times, including at least once as part of prepared remarks.
  • She didn't "immediately apologize." To the contrary, her campaign stonewalled for 11 days until CBS rolled tape of the event in question, showing Hillary not running with her head down as she claimed, but relaxedly participating in a welcoming ceremony on the tarmac.
  • It was 1996, not 1995.
  • Most egregiously, in my opinion, Hillary has been compared to a lot of things, but never, never!, to Mata Hari.
  • Note: Matt Lauer raised the matter with guest Chris Matthews on this morning's Today show. But at least in the first half-hour, neither The Early Show nor GMA saw fit to mention Bill's tangles with the truth

    Also, while Morning Joe didn't roll that part of Clinton's stump remarks in Indiana, he also said " I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone." Wrong again. How did Bill miss the frequent press mentions over the last couple weeks of the fact that Pat Nixon went to Vietnam in 1969?

    Jake Tapper has done [2]an excellent lie-by-lie deconstruction of Bill's statement. H/t Allahpundit [3], who also has fun taking Bill part.


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