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Bill's Damaging Damage Control: Update
By David Knowles - Politics DailyJust when everybody was ready to move on from Tusla, Bosnia, and Hillary Clinton's "misstatements" thereof, Bill Clinton took to the microphone in Indiana yesterday and offered a strange defense of his wife's faulty recollections. From Politico, we have the former president's rather oddly-timed explanation:And, you know, I got tickled the other day. A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me. But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what heppened to her in Bosnia in 1995. ...
Hillary on Leno
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHere's a political Rorschach test if ever there was one. Hillary Clinton goes on "The Tonight Show," and, without any prompting from her host launches a pre-emptive joke about her trip to Bosnia. Watch:The scrutiny of Cinton's repeated mischaracterization of her Tusla trip erupted as an issue last week. Clearly, the campaign felt that damage control was still necessary. So how do you think the joke fared?Two divergent views (pre-Leno) on the Bosnia affair come to us A) Christopher Hitchens, and B) Clinton campaign advisers Lissa Muscatine and Melanne Verveer. ...
'Sleep-Deprived'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThat's how Hillary Clinton explains away her error in the way she has painted her arrival in Tusla, Bosnia in 1996:"I don't know what I was thinking," she said. "I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke."First off, Clinton has repeatedly described her role in Bosnia in a similar light while on the campaign trail. Here's CBS News:But what is also truly precious about this defense is the way it dovetails with her ad about answering that red phone at 3 a.m. In the now-famous ad, President Hillary Clinton takes the middle of the night call still fully dressed. Presumably the workaholic Clinton has ...
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