BREAKING: Hillary Plagiarized From Snowe's Bosnia Trip - WP: Well, It Did Happen to Somebody

[ariesgem]

For those of you who doubt that story involving a Balkan airport, the one Hillary Rodham Clinton tells about darting across the tarmac to dodge sniper fire, take note: It really did happen.

Just not to Clinton.

In October 1995, six months before then-first lady Clinton led a delegation to Tuzla, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) and six other senators went on a fact-finding mission through war-torn Sarajevo, just before the Dayton accords resulted in a U.S. military presence on the ground in Bosnia.

Snowe's congressional delegation had an experience remarkably similar to the one Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) described in a speech delivered on St. Patrick's Day. Clinton has since said that she "misspoke" when she recalled arriving in Tuzla under sniper fire.

Unlike Clinton's version, Snowe's story was backed up news accounts. Clinton's story has been debunked by sources including television news accounts and the memories of the comedian Sinbad.

The seven senators flew into the host city of the 1984 Olympics on a military C-130 that, in addition to its senatorial payload, was carrying 20,000 pounds of peas to the starved city. A States News Service dispatch from Oct. 20, 1995, provided a portion of Snowe's Bosnia account:

"It's really sad. People are basically just living there and trying to survive," the Maine Republican said. "They're constantly living under threat of shelling or sniper fire." . . . As the plane landed she took note of the fortified bunkers surrounding Sarajevo's airport. . . . She glanced at the wall of firetrucks lined up along the airport tarmac, acting as shields from any Serb gunman looking to make a name for himself. She dashed across the runway to an armored vehicle waiting to whisk the senators to the city center. She glared at the hollowed-out remains of buildings along the city's main highway, better known as "Sniper Alley."

And here's Clinton's description of her landing in Tuzla in 1996, with an entourage that included Sinbad and singer Sheryl Crow:

"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 to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

That was Clinton's March 17 recounting of the '96 trip, coming six days after Sinbad had already publicly refuted Clinton's prior versions of the trip. In other accounts, Clinton had said there was a "threat of sniper fire," so they ran across the tarmac into an awaiting military vehicle.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/26/AR2008032602971.html?nav=rss_politics/fedpage

[Raine]

1. I guess Hillary preferred Snowe's

more exciting and dangerous experience over her run of the mill one so she decided to just make it her own. x(

[silverweb]

2. Oh. my. god.

This just gets worse and worse.

Absolutely shameful of Clinton to not only lie, but to appropriate someone else's real experience and plagarize her description of it!

I really am shocked. This shows complete self-aggrandizing egocentricity and an utterly amoral ethic.

[FrenchieCat]

5. Just experiences!

Maybe Sen. Snowe should take a stab at the presidency! LOL!

[Umbram]

10. She'd be almost palatable for a rethug. (nt)

[WolverineDG]

19. At least she'd be running on her own record

& not her husband's.

dg

[DangerousRhythm]

15. Experience you can Xerox. N/T

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Sniper fire stories you can Xerox!

[ariesgem]

4. Oh Lawd...

:rofl:

[Cali_Democrat]

7. ZING!!!

:rofl:

[DangerousRhythm]

16. Haha!

I didn't even see your comment till just now, but great minds and such...

[Alter Ego]

18. That should just be

"Sniper fire stories you can plagiarize." Interesting that Clinton jumped down Obama's throat for using elements of Deval Patrick's rhetoric in his speeches, eh?

[FlyingSquirrel]

6. Snowe is said to be on McCain's short list for running mate

Wouldn't that go over well if Clinton were the Democratic nominee.

[karynnj]

22. Really - she is good (for a Republican)

As one of the Kerry supporters, I've watched many Small Business Committee meetings. She and Kerry have written substantial bipartisan bills. The mutual respect is obvious. She is very smart and very personable.

[EmilyAnne]

8. Well, it was such a good story she figured that it shouldn't go to waste.

[JerseygirlCT]

17. Recycling? nt

[TheDonkey]

9. Hillary plagarized some patriotic fluff after one of the debates as well. "Just Words" indeed!

From the movie Dave and from John Edwards. Hypocritical lying sack of shsssss.

[bigbrother05]

11. 35 yrs of experience, just didn't say whose

added: #5!

[kevinmc]

12. Hillary, you are the weakest link ... Good Bye...

[Norrin Radd]

13. The Secret Life of Hillary Clinton

[npincus]

14. K & R!!!!

:rofl:

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

20. And Snowe is classier than Clinton as well...

Here is the money quote: "Snowe, who is vacationing this week, declined to comment about her own trip 12 1/2 years ago."

Clinton couldn't find it in her to say that about Wright, who bailed her own philandering husband out...

[Major Hogwash]

21. Hillary sounds like Milldred Mitty to me.

Walter's wife.

LoL