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Actually, the best part of Noonan's screed was a passage, written by another (she didn't provide a link), who she credits as a "poster called GI Joe who wrote in to a news blog" (The Garlic, after an exhaustive search, could only find one item with it, from a comment on a Ben Smith post); "What struck me as the best commentary on the Bosnia story came from a poster called GI Joe who wrote in to a news blog: "Actually Mrs. Clinton was too modest. I was there and saw it all. When Mrs. Clinton got off the plane the tarmac came under

ability to stand there and look you in the eye when caught flat-footed in a bald-faced lie.

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.” Wow, sounds dangerous. Well here’s the video of what actually took place: As you can see, there is the First Lady casually strolling off the plane, with her teenage daughter behind her (smart idea to bring your child if you’re under severe assassination threat?), not running, not in any danger. Then she stops to talk to

like the part about how Hillary talks about landing and saying there was no greeting ceremony and everyone was told to run to their cars with their heads down, all the while the viewer can see the greeting ceremony and notice the lack of sniper fire. Hillary claims that she “Misspoke”.

this "misstatement" by Clinton was not an off-the-cuff, throwaway remark. It was in the prepared text of a major speech, and it formed part of a broader argument that Hillary has meaningful foreign-policy experience from her days as first lady. Politico has more, including video of the CBS News report that debunked Hillary's statement and spurred her to correct it: On an almost-related note, Josh Marshall weighs in, again, on the Clinton campaign's ongoing "fog of nonsense":

Ben Smith's Blogs All that other (good) stuff Wisdom of the oracle Clinton to Philly Daily News: I 'misspoke' in prepared remarks about Bosnia landing Outrage = Money

If, by “misstate”, you mean “lying through my teeth”, then yeah…”misstate”!  From Politico: Her campaign spokesman conceded the point this morning, and she met later in the day with the Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer, where she was grilled by columnist Will Bunch: Earlier this afternoon, Sen. Hillary Clinton came to the Daily News

Our earlier reports here and here. Politico: Her campaign spokesman conceded the point this morning, and she met later in the day with the Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer, where she was grilled by columnist Will Bunch: Earlier this afternoon, Sen. Hillary Clinton came to the Daily News and

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” CBS News accompanied Hillary and Chelsea on the trip and has video that also contradicts Hillary’s account. Today the Politico reports that Hillary Clinton has refreshed her recollection and admits she may have misstated the danger on that Bosnia trip: “Clinton acknowleged today for the first time that it was a “misstatement” when she said in a major prepared foreign policy speech last week that “I remember landing under sniper fire