8 Responses for "Hillary Wasn’t Lying - Bosnia Footage Discovered"

1. DavidShiffman April 6th, 2008 at 12:10 am 1

   On behalf of Hillary, I accept your apologies.

2. Publius April 6th, 2008 at 6:50 am 2

   Christ on a …

   This is turning into the 2000 election again, where Al Gore was lambasted mercilessly for every minor misstatement, but GWB received a seemingly unlimited number of free passes for flagrant mistakes and outright prevariacation because — oh — the silly oaf doesn’t know any better.

3. chemistrydave April 6th, 2008 at 7:50 am 3

   Hahaha…that is awesome. How sad is it that someone like her is in government, much less a potential president? This woman cannot stop lying and cheating. If there is more evidence that our electorate, media, and “political system” is broken, I don’t know what it is.

4. Sam April 6th, 2008 at 9:21 am 4

   What’s worse is that if she runs for reelection for the Senate she’ll probably still win.

5. chemistrydave April 6th, 2008 at 12:46 pm 5

   A misstatement? If she accidentally replaces “girl giving me flowers” for “dodging sniper fire” then she has no business being president. I can see it now…..nuclear warheads streak across the sky on her order, she defends it by saying she was “trying to order a cheeseburger.”

   But I understand Publius. Im sure you have told your classes that they “will all be receiving failing grades and expelled from the university”, meaning of course “the class did well on the exam, the average was an 83″. Jeez, what liberals will defend…..

6. Publius April 6th, 2008 at 1:46 pm 6

   Nobody is denying that she made a mistake! My point is the hypocrisy — Bush gets away with things worse than this all the time.

   Consider the episode in the 2004 debates where Kerry mentioned that W owned some shares in a lumber company. W retorted with his characteristic snicker and laugh: “I own shares in a lumber company? Heh Heh! Anybody want any wood?”

   Turns out that he does own shares in a lumber company. So, not only is this an abject lie, but a lie designed to make someone else look foolish. Yet, there was almost no response from the media. The attitude seems to be that the poor guy is kind of slow, so let’s just leave him alone.

   Had Al Gore or Hillary Clinton made the same mistake, the media would have shouted it from every mountaintop, just like they relentlessly mocked every one of Al Gore’s minor misstatements.

   The media may be critical on W’s war policy, but he himself is allowed to make an infinity of asinine remarks and outright lies with only a minimum of attention.

7. chemistrydave April 6th, 2008 at 2:21 pm 7

   Mistake? The term is LIE. Just say it.

   Re: timber

   From Mediamatters of all people:

   Correction: FactCheck.org has clarified its earlier assertion that the $84 in question on Bush’s 2001 tax return came from “his part ownership of a timber-growing enterprise.” As explained above, the $84 came from Lone Star Trust, which was involved in oil and gas in 2001 and had not yet entered the timber industry. We corrected this item as soon as we saw FactCheck.org’s clarification.

8. Publius April 6th, 2008 at 3:54 pm 8

   Yes, her statement was untrue. However, the term “lie” connotes an intent to deceive. The woman works 18 hours a day and probably got mixed up. I doubt that she woke up that morning with the express intention of pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes about her trip to Bosnia. This is in contrast to GWB who, by his own admission, works 8 hours a day and is still unable to construct a sentence in English when not reading from a script.

   On the timber company, I hadn’t seen the correction. Regardless, I’m sure we could agree that W has made some whoppers over the course of his career, and the media usually treat it lightheartedly.