Michelle Malkin » Tuzla and truth deprivation

Tuzla and truth deprivation

By Michelle Malkin • March 26, 2008 08:49 AM

I’ve got more Hillary in Bosnia reader photoshops for you (first batch here)–and this week’s column on the Clintons’ Truth Deficit Disorder. Allah points out that in my brief laundry list of top Hillary whoppers, I forgot Hillary’s smelly claim that she tried to become a Marine. Snorty-snort snort snort.

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Seinfeld’s George Costanza famously quipped: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.”

This is how a Clinton—take your pick: Hillary, Bill, or Chelsea–makes it through the day. Better living through self-delusion. Seeking to burnish her foreign policy leadership credentials, Sen. Clinton has repeatedly peddled a harrowing anecdote about dodging sniper fire during a trip to Tuzla, Bosnia in 1996. She brought her then-teenage daughter Chelsea on the dangerous mission. And entertainer Sinbad. And singer Sheryl Crow. And, oh yeah, there was eight-year-old Bosnian girl Emina Bikakcic, who calmly embraced the intrepid First Lady and read her a poem on the tarmac—while a huge contingent of children and parents and other onlookers surrounded them with not the least bit of concern about flying bullets.

When Sinbad, the Washington Post, and every fact-checker on the Internet and under the sun debunked her tall tale, Sen. Clinton doubled down. She dissed Sinbad as a mere “comedian.” (He just tells jokes. She is a joke.) She asserted that she and her compatriots ran for safety with “our heads down.” She clung to her story that she “had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.” And she embellished further: “There was no greeting ceremony, and we were basically told to run to our cars. Now, that is what happened.”

When video of the cheery greeting ceremony surfaced this week showing no such thing, Hillary’s Truth Deficit Disorder kicked in and the symptomatic excuses poured forth. She “misspoke.” Besides, she pooh-poohed: “I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.”

Priceless campaign slogan: The more she speaks, the more she “mis”-speaks. Finally, truth in Clinton advertising! (In our family, by the way, we call this condition “diarrhea of the mouth.”)

And Hillary’s not done. She sniffed that her Tuzla hustle was just a “minor blip.” A “minor blip” that she just happened to tell, retell, and adorn in her 2003 autobiography, in Dubuque Iowa, in Waco, Texas, and in Washington, D.C., over the past three months to illustrate her bravery, fortitude, expertise, and massive foreign policy experience edge over Barack Obama.

In a radio interview Tuesday, Hillary blamed her congenital dissembling on being “sleep-deprived.” If that is so, then Hillary has been a walking zombie for years.

This is the woman who insisted for more than a decade that she was named after the late, great mountain-climber Sir Edmund Hilary—never mind that she was born six years before he scaled Mount Everest in 1953.

This is the woman who told Dateline NBC that daughter Chelsea was on a jog in New York City when the jihadists struck on 9/11—never mind that Chelsea later wrote a magazine essay revealing that she watched the attacks on television from a friend’s apartment.

This is the woman who claimed to have “helped start” the federal Children Health Insurance Program—never mind that the program’s original sponsors noted that Sen. Clinton fought the initial bill and had no role in writing the legislation.

This is the woman (echoed by her husband and daughter) who bragged that she was the “first” to call the disaster in Darfur “genocide”—never mind that several other senators had done so in 2004, while her first press statement referring to Darfur as “genocide” wasn’t until March 2006.

This is the woman who claimed to have organized “instrumental” meetings in Belfast and baldly asserted that she “helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland”—never mind that key negotiators dismissed her as “totally invisible,” “cheerleading,” and “a wee bit silly.”

And we haven’t even gotten to the Whitewater era yet, which not coincidentally, is when her Tuzla imaginary bullet-dodging adventure took place—timed to distract from all of her and her husband’s dishonest, dirty dealings.

At least Hillary “It’s my mother’s fault I lied about being named after Sir Edmund Hilary” Clinton and Bill “I have vivid memories of black churches burning that, uh, ok, never burned” Clinton can be proud of raising a daughter who didn’t fall far from the reality-challenged tree. Asked in Bloomington, Indiana on Monday to explain how she survived the non-existent sniper fire, the First Daughter with a promising future in fiction writing responded smoothly: “We were well-protected by our United States military and the United States Secret Service.”

Behold the Democrat choices for president: One candidate whose twenty-year spiritual guru has an adversarial relationship with America–and another who has a life-long adversarial relationship with the truth.

Photoshop credits: Dennis H., Stogie, Ron Rockstar, David Lunde, David R..

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#273290

On March 26th, 2008 at 4:53 pm, granite said:

#86:

Yep.
Widmark was good.
One of those guys & gals, like Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Cagney (I must stop) and so many others, that you figured a movie they were in would be a good “story”, as my father used to (and still does) say.
#273293

On March 26th, 2008 at 5:01 pm, ajmontana said:

Widmarks daughter Ann married Sandy Koufax…… He was great in the Alamo with John Wayne too.
#273303

On March 26th, 2008 at 5:16 pm, right_on said:

What I find amazing is how the MSM didn’t report Hillary was in the middle of sniper fire back in 1996. Must have been a really top secret mission.

(Sound effects:) Whickk-whickk-whickk-whickk-whickk-whickk-whickkity-whickkity-whickk!!!! U-g-g-h-h-h! Clinton running from the sniper fire, pantsuit thighs rubbing, then diving into a reinforced bunker! How could that be a secret? Heh.
#273318

On March 26th, 2008 at 5:40 pm, lgm said:

SHoward (#47) shows how it is done:

Isn’t it logical to conclude that Billary’s and Oblaaaama’a ‘mis-statements’ and/or shortcomings would be covered much more right now than McCan’t’s? McCain has already secured the Repub nomination and isn’t doing or saying too much that is controversial.

granite, John Ansell, emjem24 notice: this is an argument, a thought, a reason.
#273320

On March 26th, 2008 at 5:45 pm, WORK949 said:

What really fascinates me in this whole vignette is the sort of smug look on Senator Clinton’s face as she tells this compelling story about dodging sniper fire and running for the vehicles, etc……..

It reminds me of some interviews I did with career criminals way back in my day as a detective.

Then the video-tape showed up.

Gosh.
#273349

On March 26th, 2008 at 6:33 pm, Tennessee Dave said:

I cackled over the “embellishment” aspect one commenter tried to spin on it.
Embellishment would be Audie Murphy saying “I killed 200 Germans when I was on top of that tank using the .50 cal” and someone telling him, “Audie, it was only 150.” Audie says, “Well, I didn’t have time to count them, it just seemed that many.”
Hillary’s adventure, well, was a non-adventure and the video proves it. It wasn’t an embellishment, it was a lie.
#273370

On March 26th, 2008 at 7:27 pm, JWS said:

The “Tuzla Raider” picture is disgusting. Bleh…
#273389

On March 26th, 2008 at 8:03 pm, mytake said:

How about a picture of Hillary celebrating Christmas in Cambodia?
#273406

On March 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pm, mike in NV said:

It seems to me that if you tell your story and you say Tuzla but you meant some other city, that’s misspeaking; if you make up stuff and embelish it, thinking you can get away with it, that’s a LIE.

It’s not that Hill had encountered sniper fire and ran for cover….she made that up!
#273448

On March 26th, 2008 at 9:48 pm, right_on said:

Does “I don’t recall!” qualify as a mis-statement, or a lie?
#273458

On March 26th, 2008 at 10:18 pm, Azygos said:

Even Gollum from The Lord of the Rings wouldn’t want that kind of assignment.

emjem24,

Why bring this guy into the discussion.
#273468

On March 26th, 2008 at 10:36 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

On March 26th, 2008 at 5:40 pm, lgm said:
SHoward (#47) shows how it is done:

granite, John Ansell, emjem24 notice: this is an argument, a thought, a reason.

BWAAAHHHAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAHHAAA

The troll who can’t bring an argument, a thought, a reason is telling the rest of us how it is done?

Rich. My night is complete.
#273472

On March 26th, 2008 at 10:49 pm, SHoward said:

I certainly wasn’t seeking the kudos of an lgm. In fact, if you read my post in #47, I showed he had erred in his original posting.

The thing that disappoints me is that he made that statement in #90 referencing me, but didn’t respond to the substance of my statement in #47.

Isn’t that exactly the kind of thing lgm usually says most of us do?
just sayin’…..
#273492

On March 26th, 2008 at 11:15 pm, Tennessee Dave said:

UPDATE: Hillary surprised that people actually LIVE in Europe.
#273500

On March 26th, 2008 at 11:25 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

Yo Howie,

Clasic example of do as I say – but I don’t have to. Liberal Gone Mindless.
#273510

On March 27th, 2008 at 12:06 am, BrianNY said:

Michelle said:

Seinfeld’s George Costanza famously quipped: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.”

On March 25th, 2008 at 8:25 am, BrianNY said:
In the immortal words of George Costanza:

Just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it.

Right on!
#273523

On March 27th, 2008 at 12:53 am, Glamchild said:

More evasions, stonewalling, and denials.

Whitewater never dies.
#273545

On March 27th, 2008 at 4:15 am, graysonret said:

Now that she knows that the MSM is in favor of Obama, she needs to “shut-up” and let her spin doctors/speech writers do the work. “Just read the speech, Hillary, and answer as few questions as possible; use the answers we’ve written down. And, for God’s sake, stay away from Bill, and ‘retire’ Chelsea”. That’s about all the chance she has. The convention, though, is 5 months away, so Obama is bound to slip too. Right now, the democratic party is imploding. Makes my morning coffee taste better.
#273644

On March 27th, 2008 at 9:33 am, lgm said:

SHoward said (#99):

If you read my post in #47, I showed he had erred in his original posting.

I supported your post because it had actual reasons. That put it far ahead of typical replies to my posts.

The thing that disappoints me is that he made that statement in #90 referencing me, but didn’t respond to the substance of my statement in #47.

OK. I think your point is well taken. Obama and Clinton are in the news more than McCain this week. Still, MM put up a positive post about McCain yesterday (defaulters should suck it up) so McCain is getting some coverage.
#273706

On March 27th, 2008 at 10:22 am, franksalterego said:

“Behold the Democrat choices for president: One candidate whose twenty-year spiritual guru has an adversarial relationship with America–and another who has a life-long adversarial relationship with the truth.”

Yes,

And, if you listen to the Liberal-leaning pundits, they act as if there’s something in the Consitution that says, political parties must “take turns” at the leadership position.

So, I guess, that explains why they’re nominating two of the most UN-electable morons of their party.

“It’s Our Turn”

Good Luck wit’ dat’