The Stranger editor and sex guy Dan Savage thinks that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is a big fat liar. While recounting a 1996 visit to Bosnia to a crowd at George Washington University the other day, Clinton recalled, "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ram with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." But Savage insists the following photo is proof of her guile.
Under the banner "Lies and Lying Liars," Savage muses, "I suppose that little girl's face could be booby trapped." See what he did there?
On the one hand, is it possible that a snap shot and a caption do not necessarily constitute a "Greeting ceremony"? On the other hand, we already know that ladies have fuzzy memories and make bad historians. So shut it, Dan-o.[The Stranger]









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Hillary prevents child reporter from asking Chelsea questions.
What's worse is that Hill tells this lie-y falseness at George Washington U.
George Washington - father of the whole damn thing - never told a lie. And if he did, it wouldn'tve been revealed by Sinbad and Dan Savage.
Sorry, it just might be that I'm Jonesy for Sunday night's next 2 installments of John Adams...
@jackvinyl: The hell with that. New Futurama episoded tomorrow!
hillary has already lost to obama
it's over
@jackvinyl:
Speaking of factuality, the John Adams recreationinactmentumentary is so realistic I had an anxiety attack just hoping the declaration of independence would be signed. The last time New York practiced political abstinence.
Clinton is the modern version of Lady Macbeth; ambition with blood-stained hands.
@Un Chien Andalou: The only way i would've enjoyed part 2 more is if it had been named Ben Franklin.
@jackvinyl:
HBO has one coming up on him.
Ben Franklin- The KiteRunner.
Breaking News Flash- Hillary just said New Mexico should be returned to old Mexico to ease border tension.
It takes a village. . . to pry with kindness the sniper rifle out of the hands of the little girl.
@Un Chien Andalou: Old Mexico is offended by the ageist tenor of Clinton's remarks, refuses offer.
News Flash
Washington Post supports Sinbad's version.
Over 100 news accounts of the event mention no sniper fire. Little girls name actually redacted from released papers. She was Muslim and read a poem thanking Bill for making her safe.
Can't make this stuff up.
No need for fiction in an election cycle.
This just makes me wish it was 1996, which I never thought I'd say.
@Un Chien Andalou: Shiiiit, i've never doubted Sinbad yet...
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@if_i_only_had_a_heart:
Don't be so sure-she's like the Terminator-she won't fall down..
@Un Chien Andalou: Yet, BHO has to make a (phenomenal) speech defending his pastor.
@Un Chien Andalou: @htotheomo: If I learned anything of late, it's that it is now considered sophomoric, demented, and humorless to cling to the antiquated notion of a "lie".
There are no lies, only "truth enhancement devices".
@jackvinyl: The video is still available.. don't know why not here.
so just for that, eat this, Sinbad & Hillary's trip to Bosnia:
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I don't know what the problem is. She is clearly bent over, her head is down. Flying bullets don't photograph well perhaps. Why did they send a CHILD to greet her rather than a tall adult? Hunh? Hunh?
Perhaps in the very next frame she realizes Chelsea is standing straight up next to her and she throws her body over Chelsea's, shouting, "my baby! my baby!"
Or perhaps she is a liar. OK, I will go with that.
@scarletmenace: I'm OK with that conclusion.
@tribalpottery: As devious as I find her, that assertion is odd. She's pretty well meaning and hasn't hurt many people...she hasn't done much of anything one way or another to qualify her for the post, though her self-presentation would suggest otherwise. Ambitious, yes, nasty no. I think more Fran Drescher than Lady Macbeth.
chalk this up to: "doing research for national politics stories is less fun than for sex advice columns."
Look, let's give her some credit; the focus group testing called for breaking away from the secret service, charging up the ridge, and killing the sniper with her bare hands, so at least she dialed it back a bit...
@thegayrecluse: No kidding. I was 22 then. There's few things in the interceding years that I'd like to do over again.
I like the part about "landing under sniper fire," as if snipers hung out in brigades and fired volleys at incoming aircraft.
@CumaeanSibyl: But they did.
The Role of the UN
The failure of the UN to stop the killing in Bosnia seriously compromised its credibility as it neared its 50th anniversary in 1995. The UN already had UNPROFOR (United Nations Protection Force) troops in Sarajevo at the outset of war because it was their base of operation for the UN mission in Croatia. The UN hoped that their presence would discourage the spread of the conflict from Croatia to Bosnia. But when Sarajevo came under attack by Serb artillery in April 1992, the UN forces pulled out to avoid casualties, leaving behind only a small and lightly armed contingent of "peacekeepers" to discourage attacks by Serbian nationalists. There was clearly no peace to keep. As the situation deteriorated, creating a humanitarian nightmare, the UN struck a deal with the Serbs to control the Sarajevo airport. In reality, the Serbs only allowed the UN to use the airport under de facto Serb control. During the next three years the airport was the scene of hundreds of casualties. UN humanitarian flights were repeatedly fired upon and Bosnian civilians were killed by sniper fire as they attempted to escape across the tarmac. All aid flights and personnel transports had to be approved by Serb liaison officers stationed at the airport. In one of the most flagrant failures of the UN to provide protection, the Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister was shot point-blank by Serb nationalists in 1992 while riding in a UN armored personnel carrier at the airport.
From here: [www.friendsofbosnia.org]
News Flash- Hillary deceived by Celine Dion, who is not just a working girl from Las Vegas, but a border crosser from the north. Hafta fix NAFTA.
So Hillary lies -- she's a Clinton. She's trying to win this nomination. She'd do or say anything.
@Ian Spiegelman: I'm not sure it's quite fair to call them snipers, though, if they're operating in large groups like that -- but that's more of a semantics problem.
@Ian Spiegelman: But that is about 1992. The visit HRC is talking about took place in 1996.
In any event, I'm kind of into the idea that HRC floated -- "there was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn't go, so send the First Lady" -- Shit! It's too dangerous for Bill! Get Hillary and Chelsea on a plane!
The photograph DOES clearly show that her head was bent down.
Look, in the spirit of Easter, can't we all tone down the heated rhetoric and just calmly crucify someone?
I'm getting tired of Savage's smug, sanctimonious attitude.
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