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Hillary, meet the Christmas tree

Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 08:19AM

Frank Rich of the New York Times has a must read piece this morning called "Hillary's St. Patrick's Day Massacre," referring to her persistent Bosnia-sniper embellishment over the past three months. Rich lights her up like a Christmas tree, posing this question: "Why did she keep repeating this whopper for nearly three months, well after it had been publicly debunked by journalists and eyewitnesses?"

Rich is essentially trying to figure out why Clinton would re-tell this brazen fabrication over and over when it had been debunked months earlier by various news outlets. If you understand her logic, Rich reasons, then you begin to understand Hillary Clinton. He puts Hillary on the shrink couch and comes up with the only possible explanation:

"Still unable to escape the stain of the single most damaging stand in her public career, she felt compelled to cloak herself, however fictionally, in an American humanitarian intervention that is not synonymous with quagmire. Perhaps she thought that by taking the huge gamble of misspeaking one more time about her narrow escape on the tarmac at Tulza, she could compensate for misvoting on Iraq."

Who knows what compelled Hillary Clinton to make the sniper fable part of her stump speech for three months, but it does speak volumes about how she interprets the truth. For her to "aggressively misremember" such a highly public event simply begs another question: what is her "memory" like for events and meetings that weren't verified by the public or the media?

Footnote: Shortly after posting this, a new gallup poll came out showing Obama with a 10 point national lead over Hillary -- his largest lead at any time.

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Interesting Nicky, but I would argue that the question "what is her "memory" like for events and meetings that weren't verified by the public or the media?" should be directed at all polititians not just Hills...speaking of which why hasn't her communications team created funny Webisodes that spoofed the MTV show "The Hills" focusing on campaign drama? Ha. Missed opportunity to reach new voters. It would do its own PR...

March 30, 2008 |

Jewels

good point jewels, but hillary has an "extra special" talent for not letting facts get in the way of her memory .. btw your blog rocks -- best read on the internet

March 31, 2008 |

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