How Will Hillary's Bosnia "Whopper" Play in the Media?

[Submariner]

Oops! Your 15 minutes are up Hillary.

If you're Hillary Clinton and you've just been caught in a "whopper," the only thing to be grateful for is that it's Good Friday and people are distracted. How bad could this story be for her? When you tell the American public you faced gunfire, and it turns out all you really faced was a little girl with flowers - well, that's as bad as it gets. When you dramatically say you made a journey that was too dangerous for the President, only to have it revealed that he made the same trip two months earlier - and that your teenaged daughter was by your side - that only makes it worse.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/how-will-hillarys-bosnia_b_92844.html

[Arkana]

1. It won't, because the media won't touch Saint Hillary

Otherwise she'll have another tantrum about being a "victim" for the umpteenth time.

[grantcart]

2. I wonder if they are planning already to use this against her in her Senate campaign?

[Voice for Peace]

20. Wow, interesting thought.

They have probably got a lot of material from this campaign for defeating her there.

[tabasco]

3. The corporate media supports the corporate candidates.

I'll be surprised if you hear a peep about it.

[City Lights]

4. Before we answer "how" it will play, we need to answer "will" it play.

Despite having a handy video making the lie easy to understand for even the slowest Americans, I'm not holding my breath.

[Barack_America]

5. Hey, maybe she was allergic to those flowers. Sneezes are VIOLENT!

;)

[suston96]

6. The "whopper" was fine. The reports by the Wash Post and HuffPost were bullshit......

UPDATE Friday 6:45 p.m.

Lissa Muscatine, who served as Hilary Clinton's chief speechwriter in 1996 and accompanied her on the Bosnia trip, feels that I have failed to provide a full picture of what took place. She gave me her "vivid recollections" of the arrival in Tuzla, which I quote below:

I was on the plane with then First Lady Hillary Clinton for the trip from Germany into Bosnia in 1996. We were put on a C17-- a plane capable of steep ascents and descents -- precisely because we were flying into what was considered a combat zone. We were issued flak jackets for the final leg because of possible sniper fire near Tuzla. As an additional precaution, the First Lady and Chelsea were moved to the armored cockpit for the descent into Tuzla. We were told that a welcoming ceremony on the tarmac might be canceled because of sniper fire in the hills surrounding the air strip. From Tuzla, Hillary flew to two outposts in Bosnia with gunships escorting her helicopter.

UPDATE Saturday 8:45 a.m.

Gen. Nash says that I misquoted him in saying he was unaware of any "security threat" to the First Lady. While he was unaware of any "sniper threat," he now tells me there were a couple of "security concerns" that day, which he found out about after returning to his headquarters after greeting Clinton at the airport. There was a "non-specific report" of a possible truck bomb in the area. The military also had information that "some of the communications associated with the First Lady's visit were being monitored."

But by all means, keep posting the bullshit. Typical of the hate on this forum board that will permanently divide the Democrats in November no matter who the nominee is.

[tabasco]

7. LOL. Please explain how this mitigates Clinton's lies?

1. The statements by Hillary's speechwriter are ridiculous. The C-17 is the workhorse US transport plane. Hillary was flying on one because that is what flew into Tuzla EVERY DAY.

2. Hillary's statement that she ran from the plane with her head down because she was under sniper fire is a LIE.

3. General Nash said there were "security concerns" but no snipers. Where, exactly, does the First Lady travel that there are NO SECURITY CONCERNS?

4. Hillary's statement that the greeting ceremony was canceled due to snipers is a LIE.

Your attempt to spin out of this one registered no torque at all.

[Drunken Irishman]

14. Plus, HER OWN DAUGHTER WAS WITH HER.

How many mothers would put their daughters in position to get sniped?

Either way it looks bad for Hillary.

"Well there was a major threat..."

"So why'd you allow your daughter out of the plane?"

"Uhm..."

[hogwyld]

22. Because they were protected by that elite delta team

Of Sheryl Crow and Sinbad...

[razorman]

19. Well, I don't think she actually specified that they were ENEMY snipers.

[PM7nj]

8. Again? Didn't I already tell you!

I already told you in another post this still doesn't change the fact that SHE LIED about being shot at!

[Barack_America]

12. Sorry, that doesn't change the VIDEO of her arrival vs. her recollection of her arrival...

She said that they ran for cover once they landed. The video shows that was clearly not the case.

[Quixote1818]

13. Yep. She made a major blunder! nt

[City Lights]

18. A "non-specific report" sounds like the type of report Bush uses to

issue a fake terra-lert.

Do you have the video of her running right through the danger to the car? Thanks.

The updates look like the bullshit in this story. Total CYA mode. :thumbsdown:

[Quixote1818]

9. This is going to be bigger than the Rev. Wright thing.

From Daily KOS: This will be the punch-line of every statement made about her campaign from here on out. "Sniper fire" will be what the invention of the internet was to Al Gore, except, in this case, Clinton actually said the words which will be used to demonstrate her falsity.

[Barack_America]

15. Of that I'm not sure. But it was a terrible gaffe.

Especially considering she offered this up as the most harrowing of her foreign policy experiences. The fact that the reality of this 'harrowing' experience was a cute little girl with flowers COMPLETELY undermines every claim she's made about FP.

[PM7nj]

17. If they even play it!

MSM <3 Hillary (for now)

[Thickasabrick]

10. Think.....crickets.

[hogwyld]

11. Well, you do have to remember that Hillary and Chelsea

Had that crack special forces team of Sheryl Crow and Sinbad to protect her.:rofl:

[malik flavors]

16. Hoenstly this SHOULD be all over the news. We'll see what happens.

[Scurrilous]

21. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Cha]

23. I've said it all along ..

" hilary's a Liar" Now more and more are finding out that she will stoop to anything.

[Quixote1818]

24. kick

[FrenchieCat]

25. Liars should never prosper......

[New Dawn]

26. LOL, K&R