And if She was a Black Man, it would be Over: Clinton Misunderstood, Misled, Misremembered the Same Make Believe Tale about Facing Gunfire at least 3 More Times
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Running for President While Black: The double standard in media coverage is plain. The media gingerly criticizes Hilary Clinton for her vivid "misstatements" while rarely questioning her credibility and character. She made up vivid, detailed, imaginary stories about her experiences to mislead voters. She is a professional liar. Last month Clinton surrogate Geraldine Ferraro made the ignorant statement that if Obama was a white man he would not have the success that he has. - as if Black men do not face a struggle demanding human behavior from whites like her. If Obama made up such vivid tales about his experiences he would be done. Played out like Michael Jackson, Barry Bonds or O.J. No the double standard is clear here. If Michael Jordan was a white man he would be running the world. But if Mark Spitzer was a Black man, by now we would know every single salacious sexual detail about him and his whores. And if Hillary Clinton were a Black man she would be considered unfit to be President and probably would be working at Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
New CBS Video Shows Clinton Told the Same Lie 3 other Times
As reported by Darrell Delamaide in MarketWatch today, "So it seems what presidents most need in order to answer that phone at 3 a.m. is a vivid imagination. Sen. Hillary Clinton was able in recent campaign appearances to recount a dramatic arrival at a Bosnian airport in 1996 when sniper fire forced her to dash head down into a waiting vehicle and skip the welcoming ceremony prepared for the then-First Lady. Except, of course, that news footage shows her calmly walking and stopping to shake hands with a little girl and no one else present that day remembers any sniper fire. Clinton said she "misspoke" -- so easy to do when you speak millions of words a week. Evidently, she also mis-remembered and perhaps misled the voters she told this imaginary story to."
She stated, "so I made a mistake," she said. "That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation."
She claimed she misspoke and was sleep deprived, but CBS News has found several times in the past few months Senator Clinton used the Bosnia trip to try to show her international experience, reports Sharyl Attkisson. Clinton did so in Iowa in December, Texas in February and also last week.
After CBS News video showed what really happened when she landed and greeted officials, Senator Clinton maintained there were risks but explained to the Philadelphia Daily News why she was seen on the Bosnia tarmac greeting a young child if it was really so dangerous.
"I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this eight-year-old girl and I said, 'Well, I, I can't, I can't rush by her, I've got to at least greet her,'' Clinton said. "So I greeted her, I took her stuff and I left. Now that's my memory of it."
Once again her memory doesn't match CBS News videotape, Attkisson reports. She and her daughter Chelsea lingered on the tarmac to greet U.S. military officials, took photos, and then walked to the armored vehicle where she did, eventually, duck and enter.
Clinton's aides had tried to control the Bosnia flap Monday, saying the New York senator "misspoke."
But Clinton had to address the issue herself Tuesday, after repeated airings of the 1996 video clips caused critics to ridicule her.
Reminded that she had said it was the first time she had misspoken in 12 years, Clinton told reporters: "I was joking. Lighten up, guys."
In a March 17 speech in Washington, Clinton said of the Bosnia 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."
That account was still posted on her campaign Website Tuesday.
Clinton told CNN last week, "There was no greeting ceremony, and we basically were told to run to our cars. Now, that is what happened."
Several news outlets disputed the claims.
Clinton began retracting the remarks in a series of private interviews Monday and Tuesday before addressing about two dozen reporters here after a speech.
She told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke."
She told KDKA radio in Pittsburgh: "You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign."
The Obama campaign fueled the Bosnia brouhaha Tuesday, sponsoring a conference call with Pennsylvania reporters that featured retired Maj. Gen. Walter Stewart of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Stewart said he was assigned to the Army's European headquarters when Clinton visited Bosnia as first lady in 1996. He said her claim that she landed under enemy fire insulted U.S. soldiers charged with her security.
Clinton's explanation that she misspoke was "really astonishing," said Stewart, who supports Obama.
"She has no sense of what a statement like that does to soldiers," Stewart said. "She is insulting the command in its entirety."
"Believe me, heads would have rolled all over" if the military put the first lady and her daughter in a position of "unacceptable risk." [MORE]