Hillary Clinton’s Bosnian “Memory Slip” Wasn’t a Surprise to Reporters
NBC's Andrea Mitchell let Clinton's tall tale spread

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That Hillary Clinton didn’t really have to flee sniper fire on her trip to Bosnia didn’t surprise most in the press corps. After all, more than a few of them accompanied her, and Sinbad and Sheryl Crow, on that 1996 trip when she was First Lady, and themselves witnessed the gunfire-free arrival and photo taking that must have slipped Hillary’s mind. And even if they didn’t, there were plenty of newspaper reports they could’ve Lexis’d.

But then there are folks like NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, now wo-manning an afternoon MSNBC show, who claims to remember a different version of events … but never brought it up before, even though Clinton has been telling this story for months.

Even when the specific trip was topical – as it was on a March 13 Nightly News segment, where Mitchell mentioned Sinbad and Crow on that trip but not Clinton’s reshaping of history – Mitchell didn’t bring it up. On Monday night, however, she did say “those of us on that trip recall it differently.”

How convenient, how that everyone has seen the video now?

Mar 26, 2008 · Link · Respond
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