Oh, and the "first mom" took her child into this dangerous place? hmmmm...

Homina, homina, homina. Jesus Snipers in the Hills Christ! We are NOT stupid Wolfson.

The Washington Post gave this four Pinnocchios, I believe, which is the highest rating ever given to an obvious lie.

Wow, that's rather amazing. So she exaggerated big time and tried to make herself out to be a bullet-dodging heroine. This makes her other claims of being "Commander-in-Chief" and, now lately, "Commander-in-Chief of the Economy" almost poignant.

I love it. Misspoke. Seriously.

It's fiction. It didn't happen. She lied.

Anyway, I guess we should be happy with this limited admission of error. I had money on Wolfson saying that Hillary parachuted from the plane armed with no more than a number 2 pencil and a gum wrapper and eliminated the threat in combat.

Win some. Lose some.

Busted again! The following is passed overkill: "we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

In other words American military would have put a First Lady in harms way. Oh! Right HRC is the exception, kinda like developing her CIC creds on the run, so to speak.

Will this ever end! And Wolfson trying to explain this, now I understand why she has not accepted the invite for a debate in N.C.(Ft. Bragg, etc)

Compare

misspeak One entry found.

misspeak

Main Entry: mis·speak
Pronunciation: \ˌmis-ˈspēk\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): mis·spoke \-ˈspōk\; mis·spo·ken \-ˈspō-kən\; mis·speak·ing
Date: 14th century
transitive verb
1 : to speak (as a word) incorrectly
2 : to express (oneself) imperfectly or incorrectly
intransitive verb
: to speak incorrectly : misspeak oneself

and Contrast:

Main Entry: 3lie Function: verb Inflected Form(s): lied; ly·ing \ˈlī-iŋ\ Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lēogan; akin to Old High German liogan to lie, Old Church Slavic lŭgati Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1 : to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive 2 : to create a false or misleading impression transitive verb : to bring about by telling lies

America needs a Commander in Chief of Sniper Fire Misspeak.

Even though she just made up her whole story about running and ducking for cover in Bosnia, Hillary is making up for it now, by running and ducking for coverup of her bald face lies to to the American People!!!!

This small episode shows the folly of the Clinton strategy to go toe to toe with McCain on national security experience and the wisdom of Obama's strategy of framing the debate in terms of judgment. The comparison between McCain the war hero whose plane was literally shot down and who spent years being tortured as a POW at the Hanoi Hilton with that of HRC falsely claiming to have dodged sniper fire with her daughter and Simbad in tow, is just pathetic.

Can a HRC supporter please explain how they plan on winning the experience battle with McCain?

Still no link to the video?

TPM must have some sort of link-disability syndrome. Here again are two great resources to educate yourself on this wonderful story rife for 527ing:

The Carpetbagger: http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14981.html

Yglesias: http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/hillary_clinton_in_bosnia.php

Keep in mind one more important thing:

The "misspeak" alibi does not liberate her from having TRASHED Sindbad's recollections of the events as those of a mere "comedian."

If she truly misspoke, she owes him a formal public apology.

O what LIES!!

She LIES, lies and LIES somemore.

She even disparaged Sinbad when he told the truth by saying 'he's just a comedian'

She lied about Nafta
She lied about why she voted for the war.
She lied about Rezko.
She lied about a vastrightwingconspiracy.

She is a LIAR.

I think we need to give credit where credit is due. This is the closest Hillary has ever come to admitting a mistake.

Okay, this was said via a surrogate, not directly by Hillary herself. And granted, it wasn't so much a matter of having "mispoke" as a matter of having "lied through her teeth to exaggerate yet again about her experience".

But those are quibbles. Give her credit for coming closer than ever before to admitting a mistake. Maybe, with help, she can admit that voting to authorize the use of military force in Iraq, and voting with every single senate republican (and Lieberman) to move us closer to war with Iran, were simply times that she "misvoted".

Here is a video clip of what really happen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsGo_HWP-c&feature=bzb302

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsGo_HWP-c&feature=bzb302

There was a withering hail of sniper fire. Sure, Hillary and Chelsea stopped to listen to the little girl read a poem. That was because Hillary didn't want the little girl to be upset, thinking there might be something wrong. As soon as the poem was read, Hillary wisked her to safety. I'm sure.

Isn't this a rather small point? I remember a certain sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when it became clear in the last days of Ohio that we were going to waste everybody's time blathering on about what some turkey named Goolsbee said and when he did or did not say it. I remember that same sinking feeling a week or so ago when it became clear that, with the fate of nations at stake, we preferred to argue about whether Obama's pastor was too unpatriotic for Obama (not his pastor) to be president. Now I feel the same sinking feeling in my belly as I see folks eager to debate endlessly whether Clinton "lied" or not when she claimed to be under sniper fire in Bosnia.

Does it really matter? Will we be any closer to selecting the right person to sit in the Oval Office by answering this question? This is irrelevant fluff and drivel, just like the last few weeks of campaign discourse. Why are we letting ourselves be distracted by this sort of pablum?

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

The joke going around is that "you can't spell Hillary without L-I-A-R".

About the time of the Iowa primary, I switched to Obama based on a list I had begun accumulating of unethical conduct by Hillary. Since that time, I've lost count of the number of times she's screwed up like this. Obama, by comparison, makes her look petty and incompetent. And there's no need to attack her - all we have to do is keep pointing to her self-inflicted wounds.

CHARACTER MATTERS

Yes, why would a mother knowingly put her daughter into a situation she knew to be dangerous?

I'm thinking the former First Lady is either a liar or likes to put her daughter in the line of enemy fire.

Misspoke - riiiiight...
I guess that is the new HRC camp euphemism for outright fibbing.

It took a First Lady,
and her first offspring,
and Sinbad the court jester,
and Cheryl the court busker,
to brave the hellfire of Bosnia...
And dash across the tarmac...
bombs bursting in air....
and our flag was still there.

Vote for me.
I have experience!

Let's give Wolfson credit for coming close to the truth. That's a big improvement. After all they are going to have to swallow a lot of humility, eventually.

It's not necessary to pile on, even though he is a giant steaming turd (Wolfson, that is).

What bothered me about her claim from the get go was this: do any of you remember any reports of "sniper fire" being levied at HRC plane during her years as first spouse? Me neither. And, I would guess, that's the sort of thing that might have been, um, "reported". So it has sounded wrong from the outset, and that's because, well, it is. She lied. Liar.

What bothered me about her claim from the get go was this: do any of you remember any reports of "sniper fire" being levied at HRC plane during her years as first spouse? Me neither. And, I would guess, that's the sort of thing that might have been, um, "reported". So it has sounded wrong from the outset, and that's because, well, it is. She lied. Liar.

Oh yeah. I expect this to be the end of it. Admission of misspeaking will be enough to pacify the reporters and it'll be over soon.

Greg DL, the reason it's not a small point is Hillary is basing her attack on Obama on her "experience." That whole thing was designed to show her CIC capabilities over Obama. But it's a lie.

It matters, too, because if she were going to get to the general, that clip is going to be played again and again to discredit her experience. She made the choice to run on experience, and on national security--both arguments she loses against McCain. Instead of focusing on what she did, she exaggerated and that will discredit the things she actually did. She will have reduced herself to a first lady performing ceremonial duties with no more ability to run the country than Laura.

Now, I am not going to pick my candidate on the basis of what the Republicans are going to say about them. But it was a stupid move. And another instance in Hillary trying to win the battle to lose the war.

Misspoke? Give me a break. Lies and more lies. She lies just like Bush and with a straight face. Are we to believe that any First Lady has no security detail? I wonder if she lies so much that she doesn't know what's true anymore. hummm..there's a thought.

Misspoke? Anyone with half a brain can see that she was telling a bold-faced lie! Stop insulting our intelligence Clinton camp!
Make sure the superdelegates know about this, let's see if they too agree that Clinton merely 'misspoke'.
And where the heck is the media already?

Here's my theory. Like others who operate on rigid willpower, Hillary has probably spent many years developing a parallel track in her memory bank.
One section contains the facts, the other contains the day-dreaming details of a wannabe heroine VIP. When she 'remembered' Bosnia, she just 'misspoke', tapping into the dream track in her brain.

This story is truly breathtaking in that it was so unnecessary for her to make such an outlandish claim that could be debunked by reporters who were actually on the trip with her!

Who was the Hollywood producer who said last year that the Clintons simply cannot tell the truth? It does seem to reach the level of pathological when the lie is so reckless and inexplicable as this.

What's next?

"Not to be outdone by Senator McCain, Senator Clinton stated today that she had been a prisoner of war for one year longer than he had."

Why not, if it sounds good say it.

the fact that she had to lie, yes lie, shows how valid she herself thinks it is as foreign policy experience. frankly all the claims of experience in the posts above bother me. all the experience in the world doesn't help if you don't have the judgment to use it. don't buy that argument? then explain cheney and rumsfeld.

Some Monsters Lie.

Some Lies are Monsters.

So, if I read you correctly, you're saying that Obama and his childhood friend disagree over their subjective impressions of the conversations they had 20+ years ago, and that a magazine he saw when he was nine, that he thought was a Life magazine, was some other magazine.

Wow, Obama's credibility is shot! Impeach the bsatard!

Greg DeLassus:

Isn't this a rather small point? I remember a certain sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when it became clear in the last days of Ohio that we were going to waste everybody's time blathering on about what some turkey named Goolsbee said and when he did or did not say it.

Wake up son.
This isn't some isolated case of fluffy bloviating by Herr Queen.

She has lied about the origins of her name:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hillary.asp

She has lied about the origins of her book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Village

Clinton has been criticized for not giving credit to a ghostwriter in connection with It Takes a Village. The majority of the book was reportedly written by ghostwriter Barbara Feinman.[8] When the book was first announced in April 1995, The New York Times reported publisher Simon & Schuster as saying "The book will actually be written by Barbara Feinman, a journalism professor at Georgetown University in Washington. Ms. Feinman will conduct a series of interviews with Mrs. Clinton, who will help edit the resulting text."[9] Feinman spent seven months on the project and was paid $120,000 for her work.[10] Feinman, however, was not mentioned anywhere in the book.

You are not paying attention here son.
You are falling behind.

Here is a basal-level truth:
This woman and her husband LIE A LOT.

Just like Bush lied about his National Guard service and his "successful" oil drilling businesses.

These are lies that are aimed to convince you and I that they are fit for the highest office in the land. So not only does this say something fundamental about their characters, but also, their fitness to that service.

Capisca?

(i.e. Wake up! You are smarter than your last post.)

At least she didn't fly in wearing a flight suit.

the trouble with your dictionary cites is that they seem to have forgotten this incident and I think, the modern beginning of such a word or phrase ( and aside to Wolfson: when you use Ron Ziegler as your source of phrasing you have arrived--this must be the bottom ---or as one could accurately say "truly Nixonian, or maybe even one better since here Wolfson says it is only possible that she misspoke)

TIME MAGAZINE
It's Inoperative: They Misspoke Themselves
Monday, Apr. 30, 1973

THE Nixon Administration has developed a new language—a kind of Nix-speak. Government officials are entitled to make flat statements one day, and the next day reverse field with the simple phrase, "I misspoke myself." White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler enlarged the vocabulary last week, declaring that all of Nixon's previous statements on Watergate were "inoperative." Not incorrect, not misinformed, not untrue—simply inoperative, like batteries gone dead.....

Homina, homina, homina. Jesus Snipers in the Hills Christ! We are NOT stupid Wolfson.

Damn, I think I want to have your babies - that "Jesus Snipers in the Hills Christ" just rocked my world.

You may think this is over, and it may be for the moment. But if Clinton is the nominee, expect to see the tarmac tape run 24/7 by McCain's campaign.

And what's in those tax returns, anyway? More surprises, no doubt.

Had enough?

If she were to somehow pull out the nomination and the GE, I am left wondering whether she will tell lies like this when visiting foreign countries; sending more American soldiers to die in wars that need not be waged.

she misspoke in regard to the exit from the plane

WTF? She is seriously a dillusional freak.

Sorry Greg. I appreciate your consistent efforts to be fair minded and keep moving our discourse back onto the path of rightousness. Somebody's got to do it. With all the Hillaroids fleeing the real blogs for their electronic Dienbienphus at hillaryis44.org, MyDD.com and Taylormarsh.com, we're going to have to learn to keep ourselves honest.

But you're wrong here. This is a big deal.

It's a big deal, first and foremost, because she made a big deal of it. She recounted her heroism under fire as a counterpoint to how much better prepared to be Imperator she was than that young civilian punk Obama. Then, when challenged by eyewitnesses, she stuck to her story. When challenged by eyewitneses and fellow participants again, she denigrated the source stuck to the story and recounted details. She lied, her campaign lied.

If a presidential campaign is a job interview and you're basing your entire campaign on how much better your resume is than the other guy's, and she she is, proof that you lied about your resume is a very big deal.

And if a presidential campaign is about character, proof that you lied about your resume, which you've made a centerpiece of your pitch, lied again when the lie was brought to your attention, attacked the credibility of the people who challenged your lie and then, only when your lie is incontrovertably proven, send out a spokesperson to say "she misspoke," it's a big deal.

"You may think this is over, and it may be for the moment. But if Clinton is the nominee, expect to see the tarmac tape run 24/7 by McCain's campaign."

This is the basis of a real swiftboating in October.

I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia, and as Togo said, 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 SUPER Lady.

That's reality!
Sinbad is a comedian and a liar.

Hillary for Commander In Chief of Imaginary Brave Deeds!!!!!

Ducking Sniper Fire with her Pantsuit on Fire, Pantsuit on Fire.

Yes, she probably confused it with some other trip she took when she was under sniper fire.

I do know that if it was me, and there really 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.

I would have worked on finding out who it was that had it in for me.

The idea that the United States government would send the President's wife to places that were too dangerous for him is simply ludicrous.

Yes, it's on CNN's blog now:

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/24/why-would-clinton-not-tell-the-truth-about-her-1996-bosnia-trip/.

Won't be too much longer till Blitzer cannibalizes it and claims it as his own.

Readers of this site expect you to be breaking stories, not reporting on the spin it has been given. We will give you a pass, for two reasons:

1. Easter holiday, and you guys certainly deserve a break.

2. You are still way ahead of the New York Times, when the space of my writing this post,finally got on the story.
( sorry not to use the appropriate HTML tags for style)

three minutes ago, number two was number one:

"1. Clinton 'Misspoke' on Bosnia Trip

...Wolfson pointed to Clinton's previous written...welcoming ceremony at Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Clinton wrote: ''Due to...they were flying into Tuzla Air Base. ''Everyone...bulletproof vests,'' Clinton told reporters...
March 24, 2008 - By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

2. Hillary Clinton to Visit Troops in Bosnia

...Italy. The White House announced Friday that Mrs. Clinton would stop in Tuzla, the northeastern Bosnia headquarters of the American peacekeeping mission. Besides visiting Tuzla, Mrs. Clinton planned to stop in Baumholder, Germany, where many...
March 17, 1996 - By The New York Times - World - 118 words "

This is beginning to remind me of O'Lielly's claims of having been in combat in Panama.

And of course it is patently ridiculous to keep saying that they'd send a First Lady somewhere that was too dangerous for the president.

Yah, Laura Bush should be making her annual goodwill tour of Iraq any day now.

Who wants to bet this doesn't receive even 1/100th the coverage of Wright? Sadly, once it's played a couple times and everyone states how she obviously "misspoke," the cabletards will get bored and move on to the latest video of a scary black man. Dog bites man, they'll say. Move along.

This might just be the last blog I write about politics in America. I have written about Obama being the American Mandela, the burden of the hope he brings, and the man he is in his own right. But I don’t know anymore. I still believe in Obama, but I just don’t believe in American politics anymore. If this is how they want to play politics in America then I don’t want to play anymore. This is too sick. This is nothing to be proud of. Yes, they won - the cynics and morally corrupt. This is just not right guys. This is not what people fought for and died for. The Founding Father would be ashamed. http://angryafrican.net/2008/03/23/the-founding-fathers-will-be-ashamed/

I am always impressed by the level of anti-Hillary venom on this beloved site. It was somehow all a bit funnier when it seemed she was about to be creamed in Texas and a nominee could be celebrated as she was about to bow out. Now with her still around, and this vexatious Wright business, you tend to wonder what it all means.

Anyhow, TPMReaderHG rightly makes the point that will be made over and over again if this thing really flares up: she's made more than one mistake here:

"The idea that the United States government would send the President's wife to places that were too dangerous for him is simply ludicrous." You bet it is! This quote of hers probably is lovingly retold with idiotic delight in the Clinton camp, but it will come back to bite her as part of this: "if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn’t go, so send the First Lady." You wanna say, yo HRC, are you just nuts, or what is up with you? Running, holding your head down? Huh?

OK, great exchange:

Obama lies about being present at his mentor's racist diatribes.

Clinton lies about whether there actually was live fire as she entered a war zone on a diplomatic mission.

I guess that makes it even.

Does this count as plagiarizing the words of a war hero Commander in Chief?

Can anyone quote the passage she used here?

Greg:

Well, I see that I am not winning any friends so far, so as long as I have already alienated my comrades so thoroughly, I might as well dig myself in even deeper. All of the above "lies" strike me as unspeakably petty. How she got her name? Who cares? How did she come up with her booko title? Could it possibly matter less?

Huh? WTF?

Son, she took full authorial credit for a book she paid someone $120,000 to write. How she got her name? Another "misread" on your part? Or spinning to save face? That is a story of how she consistently lied about the origin of her name. Consistently L-I-E-D.

She is a serial fabricator. A resume padder. In that regard, she is no different than our favorite Chimpanzee.

MSNBC coverage.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23781167#23781167

So there were snipers somewhere but apparently not close enough to prevent the ceremony. And there was no military protecting her, nobody wearing flak jackets (like McCain in Baghdad), small girl standing out in the open. How dangerous could it possibly have been?

Oh Dear Lord,

Please get this MONSTER our of lives ASAP, if not sooner!

Hardball ran a story about politicians and sex...etc. They played a clip of Mr. Billary, on video tape, saying: "depends what the definition of "is" is!" I puked.

Coming to your Tee Vee soon: Hillary in military fatigue with army boots on!

YUK...

Hellary has learned nothing. Where are her Rovian advisors? She didn't mean literal "sniper fire." She meant "sniper fire" as a metaphor for a very tense situation for first ladies, their daughters, and has-been comedians.

God, do people have to use her picture every time they write about one her lies?

I am sick of looking at this woman!

All you Obama fans that like all the negative press the media enjoys piling onto Hillary will be shocked in November when you find out you have been SWIFTBOATED by the Republicans and the Media who conned you into supporting Obama who will get beat big time by McCain. The Reeps are the ones who gave Obama all his money for his campaign to start with and that's because they know Hillary could beat McCain and they wanted Obama who will be easy to beat. So all you Democrats have been SWIFTBOATED by supporting Obama. Hope you enjoy McCain as your president.

So Greg, not trying to be tendacious, just kinda Socratic.

What kind of lie from her would be big enough for you to think it was significant?

I really, really, really love this story.

I love the reception, I love the poetry, I love Sinbad, I love Hillary's haircut, I love Chelsea standing there looking shy, I love that they're gonna eat either there or at the next place, I love that Hillary kept telling the story for no good reason, I love that its now a misstatement, I really love it all.

MKyleM?

RaeK?

Marginal Player?

Didn't think so. Perhaps the memo has gone out about those TPS reports.

Hysterical: DOES HILLARY HAVE FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME?

Dan Goldstein, a Psychology PhD at the London School of Economics and the editor of "Decision Science," has written a piece about whether Hillary Clinton lied or has "false memories" about her landing in Tulza. The piece is on his blog at Psychology Today. FUNNY STUFF! We need a psychologist to understand this "whopper": http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/decisions-decisions

From "Head of State"

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-misspoke.html

"Monday, March 24, 2008

I Misspoke

It was a treacherous night landing. Ice had formed on both of our wings, and as I looked out the port window, I could see it cracking, flying off into the night sky with each near barrel roll of our C-50, highlighted by the flares shooting past on either side of the cabin, turning them into falling prisms of wildly careening light.

As the cabin lurched back and forth and the sounds of rocket fire percussed the urgent, faltering rhythm of our right engine, I unfastened my seat belt, and, finding my center of gravity, rose from my seat, moving past aides frozen still in their seats, arms locked like girders against their arm rests in terror, and walked up the center aisle to the pilot's cabin.

"How long to Kosovo"? I shouted over the screaming whine of the altimeter's alarm, marking our steep descent. The pilot turned, looked at me in shocked recognition--"How...how did you make it up here? No one has ever walked up here in these conditions before! How..."

"Never mind that!" I barked, with what I hoped was not too much stern forcefulness, with sufficient steel and empathy combined into a firm imperturbability. "Check the master FMC! Is it working or has it failed?"

The pilot, paused, as if in amazement at my readiness , and then himself awakening to crisis, looked to the Control Display Unit . "It's down! It's down!" he shouted. A bead of sweat began to form on his brow.

I knew what I had to do. "Get out of there!" I commanded, and pulled him from the seat, where he crumbled to a fetal position on the floor behind me. Stepping over him, I took the chair behind the console.

"Check the Central Maintenance Computers and activate the NAV RAD for alternate radio tuning capability!" I shouted to the co-pilot. He, too, had broken down in tears, his head buried in his hands. I looked to his ID on the console. Another newbie.

Well, this was another one where I would have to go it alone.

Quickly, I tore the scarf from my neck and fashioned it into a crude lasso that could be used for EFIS/EICIS control. Catching the lever with my right hand, I activated the cabin loudspeaker with my left. I knew that they had likely been gulled by the earlier soft patter of the pilot. "Brace yourself! Get ready! These aren't just words!" Then I pulled the lever back hard, sending us rocketing towards the runway.

"You'll never make it!" I knew that voice, and turned. Richardson! How did he trundle up to the cabin? "Out of here, Judas! And take that quivering beard with you!"

I could feel bolts straining against Pennsylvania steel as I pushed the '50 down, down, down to the ground below us. Suddenly, an explosion punctuated the sky--Hand held rocket fire at 3' o'clock!

I quickly performed the evasive maneuvers that I had learned for so long, and so well. My face became angry, then sad, then gentle, then intensely serious, then was finally rocked by a powerful squealing, an unnatural burst of laughter. That did it! The rocket exploded harmlessly behind us.

Now. Now it was time to take the stick and bring this shaking, careening flight, parts straining against themselves until nearly ready to burst, down to the ground. I put my arms to the twin arms of the FO-AP, set the APC, and with all of the strength remaining in me, began to push the levers down. Straining, I pushed harder. And harder. I could see the runway rising before us in the glare shield. I would have to find the remaining strength to bring it down.

Finally, as if a burst of superhuman might had been somehow delegated to me, I pushed the levers into locked position. I could hear Penn in the cabin shouting "We're landing...We're going down!" as I felt the rough shock of the landing gear snapping into place.

Sparks flew as we hit the runway, bullets ricocheting off of the cabin, one wheel touching pavement. I looked straight through the windshield--the militia, arms at the ready stood at the runway's end. The last obstacle.

I turned the craft hard, sending it hurtling sideways across the pavement. It swept the militia away in a single screaming motion that combined with the screaming that arose from the cabin, as we continued to hurtle towards the small, makeshift terminal, where the dignitaries, negotiators, and heads of state awaited for my arrival.

I did not close my eyes. I did not let go of the wheel. I watched--as we ground to a halt just before the doors of the terminal.

I looked fore, at the dignitaries protecting themselves from the sniper fire that raged around them. I looked aft, at the passengers, shaken but safe.

We had arrived. All was good.

Just a moment...

Due to the discovery of a video of the above described occasion, I would like to make few small corrections. The flight was in fact actually a regularly scheduled chartered flight that was actually flown by the pilot and co-pilot--although the pilot did have a cold, and during the flight, I did at several times give serious attention to our flight conditions (notes indicate that I found it "a bit bumpy") I would also note that the dinner, Salmon with Creamed Potatoes, was undercooked, and was served with a Riesling that was unusually dry. It is also true that we were met not by a militia but by a girl's youth soccer team. However, it was necessary for me to dodge a soccer ball as team members demonstrated their often aggressive skills. No other shots were fired.

In short: I misspoke."

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-misspoke.html

Dr. Goldstein is only half-joking I think. He really does discuss false memories. It's a thoughtful piece with a couple of sharp blows that make the point: Clinton is really in it deep on this one. The question I ask is: what does it say that someone could either lie this badly or create such a florid, self-aggrandizing to "remember." Anyway you cut it, it's a little scary. Sorry. I really believe that.