Friday, April 11, 2008

Kind of negates her 3 AM phone call commercial doesn't it?

Bill defending Hill's "misspeaking" about sniper fire in Bosnia:

"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 late at night when she was exhausted, misstated — and immediately apologized for it — what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995 [sic]. Did y'all see all that? Oh, they blew it up.

"Let me just tell you. The president of Bosnia and General Wesley Clark — who was there making peace where we'd lost three peacekeepers, who had to ride on a dangerous mountain road because it was too dangerous to go the regular, safe way — both defended her because they pointed out that when her plane landed in Bosnia, she had to go up to the bulletproof part of the plane, in the front. Everybody else had to put their flak jackets underneath the seat in case they got shot at. And everywhere they went, they were covered by Apache helicopters. So they just abbreviated the arrival ceremony.

"Now I say that because, what really has mattered is that even then she was interested in our troops. And I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you woulda thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they carried on about this. And some of them, when they're 60, they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 at night, too."

CBS News producer Ryan Corsaro, who covers Senator Clinton, points out that she made the claim in mid-morning on St. Patrick's Day. CBS also has aired videotape of the senator making the claim on at least two other occasions. The Eleanor Roosevelt claim also has been questioned, since Pat Nixon traveled to Vietnam in 1969.

2 comments:

Smiff said...

Well, it depends on what the definition of 'was' is.

And 'got tickled' - is that the latest euphemism for a hummer?

Corms said...

And 'got tickled' - is that the latest euphemism for a hummer?

Would tickled pink be when he reciprocates?