Tammy Bruce: Hillary Admits She "Misspoke" About Bosnian Sniper Fire

Hillary Admits She "Misspoke" About Bosnian Sniper Fire

Yeah, I mistake a kid reading me poetry for sniper fire all the time. It's so hard to tell the difference.

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said she "misspoke" last week when she said she had landed under sniper fire during a trip she took as first lady to Bosnia in March 1996. The Obama campaign suggested it was a deliberate exaggeration on Clinton's part.

Clinton often cites the goodwill trip she took with her daughter and several celebrities as a part of her foreign policy experience.

During a speech last Monday about Iraq, she said of the trip: "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." [...] The written account in Clinton's book contradicts the comments she made last Monday about the welcoming ceremony.

Just after her speech last Monday, she reaffirmed the account of running from the plane to the cars when she was asked about it by reporters at a news conference. She said was moved into the cockpit of the C-17 cargo plane as they were flying into Tuzla Air Base.

"Everyone else was told to sit on their bulletproof vests," Clinton told reporters. "And we came in, in an evasive maneuver. ... There was no greeting ceremony, and we basically were told to run to our cars. Now, that is what happened."

The Obama campaign statement also links to a CBS news video taken from her Bosnia trip and posted on YouTube, which shows Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, walking across the tarmac from a large cargo plane, smiling and waving, and stopping to shake hands with Bosnia's acting president and greet an 8-year-old girl.

"This is something that the Obama campaign wants to push cause they have nothing positive to say about their candidate," Wolfson said Monday in the conference call.

No, it's because they have proof Hillary makes things up.

Funny, though, how the YouTube loop is indeed good enough proof for the Obama campaign as an indication of someone's character when it comes to Clinton, but not when it comes to Jeremiah "G-Damn America" Wright.

Here's the YouTube video of Hillary's experience on the Bosnian tarmac and her description of the experience. Sniper Fire or Poetry-by-Kid? You decide.

Posted by Tammy · March 24, 2008 02:25 PM · Permalink
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To answer the age old question of who you gonna believe? I think I'll go with my lying eyes.

Posted by: jdb at March 24, 2008 03:20 PM

Her comment about "landing under fire" reminds me of the "Chelsea was jogging near the World Trade Center" claim she made after 09/11/01. Pure and simple, Hillary is a liar. But then again she IS a lawyer so I guess they go hand in hand.

Posted by: Rich B at March 24, 2008 03:36 PM

Once again, Hillary "right stuff" Clinton has done what they used to accuse Ronald Reagan of doing: inventing a preferred reality. We can eagerly await her Walter Mitty-like accounts of piloting the space shuttle, discovering amazing medical cures, and winning the Indianapolis 500. Right. Randy.

Posted by: RandyGH at March 24, 2008 05:45 PM

"Hillary is a liar. But then again she IS a lawyer so I guess they go hand in hand."

Now now, there's this teensy little 90+% of the profession that give the rest of us a bad rap. ;-)

Posted by: Dave J at March 24, 2008 08:16 PM

It is becoming more and more obvious that politicians, Black, White, Male, or Female, lie as matter of course, like police, even when they don't need to.

Posted by: St. Thor at March 25, 2008 05:07 AM

What's mind boggling is doesn't Hillary think that this claim cannot be looked into and verified ? There were other people there also who witnessed the event. The media was there. Does she think people are really that stupid or is Hillary really that stupid ?

Posted by: Young American at March 25, 2008 06:18 AM

Sorry Dave. I'm sure there are (you included) many fine honest Barristers out there. I guess I should narrow it down to Politician/Trial Defense/Leftist Bastard/ Lawyers. Keep the faith.

Posted by: Rich B at March 25, 2008 08:42 AM

Interesting that now she's using the excuse of being sleep deprived. Not a good idea when you're running ads about your ability to answer 3 am phone calls.

Posted by: OSU Steve at March 25, 2008 12:30 PM

Well, this depends on how the situation was defined. I'm sure there were snipers somewhere in Bosnia. If they were snipers then they were firing at something, otherwise they would not be snipers. She had to see where she was walking so she looked down, which could be interpreted as keeping her head down, while somewhere in Bosnia there was a sniper and he/she was firing (obviously) at something. So she just miss spoke and was wildly taken out of context (by herself)!

I'm sure glad that's cleared up. We certainly need another Philadelphia word smith parsing and chopping the dictionary after every encounter where they see they ticked someone off, or made something up, or just plain blatently lied. maybe John Lovitt could sign on as her spin doctor.

Posted by: mrfixit at March 25, 2008 01:20 PM

I keep wishing she had rethought the shamrock scarf. Or that one of her advisors had stopped her. She's gonna' regret that because it pinpoints a date in everyone's mind.

Posted by: Ruth Anne at March 26, 2008 02:38 PM

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