WaPo: Hillary Clinton’s Bosnia Story A ‘Whopper’
The Swamp:
By Jim Tankersley
We already broke this courtesy of Newsbusters about 4 days ago, but the MSM is catching up…
You’ll recall that earlier this month, the comedian Sinbad challenged Hillary Clinton’s version of the dangers she - and Sinbad and singer Sheryl Crow - faced together on a trip to Bosnia in 1996.
Today, the Washington Post is backing him up.
In a piece headlined “Sniper fire, and holes in Clinton’s recollection,” the Post “fact-checks” Clinton’s campaign-trail claims that she landed amidst sniper fire on that trip and that her group ran with its heads down.
In fact, the Post says, the airport where Clinton landed that day was one of the safest in Bosnia at the time. The article continues: “Had Hillary Clinton’s plane come ‘under sniper fire’ in March 1996, we would certainly have heard about it long before now. Numerous reporters, including The Washington Post’s John Pomfret, covered her trip. A review of nearly 100 news accounts of her visit shows that not a single newspaper or television station reported any security threat to the first lady. ‘As a former AP wire-service hack, I can safely say that it would have been in my lead had anything like that happened,’ Pomfret said.”
The Post awards the story four a maximum “Pinocchios” for exaggeration, which lands it in what the newspaper calls the “real whoppers” category.
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What? Hilda lied? No…I’m shocked..Shocked, I say
March 23rd, 2008 at 6:29 am