Hillary's Bald Face Lie

It’s amazing to watch. And the more I see, the more embarrassed I become as a consumer of the American news media.
Hillary Clinton, one of three finalists in the contest to become the 44th president of the United States, is caught on videotape delivering a bald-faced lie about her experience in foreign affairs.
And it’s not Page One news.
It was on Page 18 of The New York Times. It (four paragraphs) was on Page 24 of the Rocky Mountain News. It was on Page 6 of The Denver Post. It wasn’t even reported - not a line of it - in my hometown newspaper.
This wasn’t even a close call. It belonged on Page One.
Hillary Clinton claims to have vast experience in foreign affairs, the person you would want to answer the telephone at 3 a.m. when an international crisis erupts unexpectedly on the other side of the world.
She claims that it is her experience that recommends her candidacy above that of her primary rival, Barack Obama.
Experience isn’t a small-print item on her resume. It is right there, up on top, No. 1 on her list of credentials.
For several weeks, critics have been searching for some evidence of her substantial experience in foreign affairs, something that transcends the social hostess experience of all former First Ladies. Even a morsel of bona fides would suffice.
Finally, in a speech delivered last week, on St. Patrick’s Day as she was decked out with a green scarf decorated in cloverleaves, she offered something up.
During a trip to Bosnia in 1996, Clinton recalls that:
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base,” she told a hushed audience.
There is only one problem - no, there are at least three problems - with that recollection.
1.) There was no sniper fire.
2.) The ceremony wasn’t cancelled.
3.) No one ran to their vehicles with their heads down. Everyone strolled across the tarmac to a waiting motorcade, leisurely shaking hands and chatting in smiley-faced conversations.
But, it turns out, there was a fourth problem. CBS has produced its videotape of the airport arrival Clinton described last week.
It shows Hillary and daughter Chelsea being greeted at the Tuzla airport by an adoring crowd of well-wishers, including an 8-year-old child who personally provided the First Lady with a warm welcome. The Clinton entourage calmly walked with the crowd to her waiting vehicle, stopping to chat along the way and to shake hands with dignitaries and local folk.
There were no shots fired, no one ducking in fear, no rush to escape the danger, no one running for cover, nobody scrambling for the safety of a vehicle.
Clinton’s version of events was not only a lie, it was a dramatic lie. It was a fantasy.
In fact, there is no evidence that any such event has ever happened in her life. She apparently wasn’t confusing this event with some other incident, where a welcoming ceremony was canceled under the danger of hot sniper fire.
It never happened - anytime, anywhere.
She just made it up.
CBS Correspondent Sharyl Atkisson, who accompanied Clinton on the flight and on her travels abound Bosnia, not only recalls the cordial welcoming ceremony at Tuzla, she remembers the entire visit in Bosnia. “There was no sniper fire, either, when Clinton visited two army outposts, where she posed for photos. And no sniper fire back at the base, where (Clinton) sang in a USO show starring Sinbad and Sheryl Crowe.”
This lie ranks right up there with historic presidential lies like “I am not a crook” and “I did not have sexual relations with that woman - Ms. Lewinski.”
The Clinton campaign, after nearly a week of insisting that her recollection was accurate, finally admitted (after CBS aired the 1996 videotape) that the candidate “misspoke” about her adventure.
No, she didn’t misspeak. She lied. She imagined something that didn’t happen. And she spoke of her whimsical vision as if it were fact and truth and real experience.