Hillary’s bravery under sniper fire
Paul K. writes:
As a Hillary supporter, I was relieved to find that her account of disembarking from a plane while under sniper fire in Bosnia has proven to be correct, as shown in footage now available on YouTube.
LA replies:
This is pretty funny, but the best part of this video for me is the real part, which I hadn’t seen before, where we see her say right out in her confident voice:
I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport but instead we just ran with our heads down [patented Hillary chuckle] to get into the vehicle to get to our base.
Now this is not something that can be interpreted as, “We landed where there was a possibility of sniper fire and the pilots took precautions.” That was Hillary’s own explanation, which a few days ago briefly persuaded me that this was a matter of mispeaking rather than an outright lie.. But it’s absurd. To say “I remember landing under sniper fire” means that there was actual firing going on as the plane landed. So it was an outright lie.
Hillary has told some whoppers, the one about her mother telling her that she had been named after Edmund Hillary stands out, but offhand this seems like the biggest one ever. For her even to suggest that that the U.S. military would land the First Lady where there was the slightest possibility of her being shot at shows an alarming detachment from reality.
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James P. writes:
“For her even to suggest that that the U.S. military would land the First Lady where there was the slightest possibility of her being shot at shows an alarming detachment from reality.”
The bigger detachment from reality is her thought that nobody would check, and she wouldn’t get caught. She knows as well as anyone that her opponents employ “opposition research” teams—just like she does—to catch her out when she tells a whopper. Any politician on campaign has to assume that every single word she says is being “fact checked” by her opponents, but Hillary evidently thought she was exempt from this rule.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 28, 2008 08:48 PM | Send