Amazingly enough, the MSM is actually responding to a story about Hillary’s blatant, chronic resume revisionism. The one they picked up on was the Bosnia story, thanks to Sinbad, blogosphere buzz, and the Washington Post fact-check article I posted a few days ago. Will this lead to a closer look, a vetting if you will, at Hillary’s false claims of superior experience? Maybe, maybe not, I won’t hold my breath, but I’m a little more hopeful now than I was a few days ago. Here is a transcript (with links and emphasis added by me) from The Today Show courtesy of The Huffington Post:
MATT LAUER: I still remember winning a Little League championship singlehandedly when I was ten, probably didn't happen. But this isn't the little league. This is someone running for President. There were reporters on the trip and she's using her experience as a deciding factor. How could this happen?
CHUCK TODD: It's worse than that, Matt. there have been reporters questioning her story on this a few weeks ago. One even reached out to the comedian Sinbad, who was also on this trip to get his recollection of it and it differed the First Lady. So somebody didn't scrub that speech. It was in prepared remarks last week. Not only did she say it with certitude, but it was in her prepared text. So this was a real sort of bone-headed mistake on the campaign's part at a time when everybody is looking at everything so carefully.
LAUER: And does it make people go back and start to question everything she said?
TODD: Right. She's been talking about her role in the Irish Peace process, she's been talking about her role in children's health care. So I think all of this is going to invite some renewed scrutiny on some of her claims of experience. And it's at a time when she wants the focus to be on Barack Obama and questions about him.
Chuck Todd was right on the money this morning, it wasn't that she misspoke, she said it multiple times, with conviction, it was written into her speeches, and used it as solid evidence of experience as she attacked Obama for supposedly not having enough experience. On top of that, even after it was first questioned, and reporters got conflicting accounts from Sinbad, she didn't look back at the event and go "you know, perhaps I didn't remember that correctly, maybe I should stop saying those things.” No, instead she brushed off Sinbad's contradicting claims as ridiculous because they are coming from a comedian, while repeated her lies yet again (see video below). And THEN the irrefutable video evidence comes out, and oops, who was blatantly lying, over and over again while trying to support a false claim of superior experience? That isn’t a misstatement, that isn’t a gaffe, that is a purposeful attempt use a bogus story to misinform the public. It is also much harder to brush off as an accidental gaffe when she has made similar lies, time and time again, on her involvement with passing NAFTA, with passing the FMLA and SCHIP, with her experiences in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Rwanda, etc. This is a clear pattern of deception, and paired with her shameless attacks against Obama it is particularly disturbing and despicable.
Hopefully the media won’t buy into this “misstatement” Clinton Shuffle, hopefully they’ll pick up on the pattern, the other documented cases of her exaggerations and distortions, and hopefully they’ll connect the dots, and show the voters that her whole campaign is based on lies, and indeed she is the one who hasn’t been vetted. Maybe the media can redeem itself somewhat, maybe not, who knows. Here is a transcript from The Early Show this morning:
HARRY SMITH: This is so interesting because her campaign comes down and says this is a misstatement. Is this Pinocchio syndrome, an exaggeration, or a misstatement of fact?
JEFF GREENFIELD: Funny you mention that because The Washington Post which does fact checks based on how many Pinocchios a statement is worth gave this one four. And the reason really, it's the contrast between the vividness of her memory and the damning nature of the videotape. If she had said I visited the Balkans and I met with our troops, she did. Fine. No problem. But it's the nature -- it's like a fish story where the fish grows every time you tell the story. And in this case, she's so clear and vivid about what she remembers compared to the reality that it frankly reminds me of the old Groucho Marx line, who are you going to believe, me or your lyin' eyes? It's an embarrassment.
Here is the video of her basically saying that Sinbad is full of crap, while going on to repeat the lie, yet again. Accidental misstatement? Not a chance:
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