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Mispoke, Lied. Tomatoes. Tahmatoes. Let's Call the Whole Thing ...

For those of you not keeping tabs on the latest campaign gaffe by His Girl Jackass, it goes something like this: In a speech last week, Hillary Clinton suggested that in a 1996 goodwill tour to Bosnia, her plane landed in the midst of sniper fire and the welcoming ceremony was canceled; instead, she had to run with her head down to get to the vehicles to get to base.

I don't know why she felt the need to tell everyone she was in grave danger. But whatever the reason, Sinbad (yeah, that Sinbad) called her on it. See, Sinbad was also on that tour, and he said of the experience: "The 'scariest' part of the trip was wondering where he'd eat next. 'I think the only 'red-phone' moment was: 'Do we eat here or at the next place.'" He continued:

"I never felt that I was in a dangerous position. I never felt being in a sense of peril, or 'Oh, God, I hope I'm going to be OK when I get out of this helicopter or when I get out of his tank.'"

In her Iowa stump speech, Clinton also said, "We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady."

Say what? As Sinbad put it: "What kind of president would say, 'Hey, man, I can't go 'cause I might get shot so I'm going to send my wife...oh, and take a guitar player and a comedian with you.'"

Well, after Sinbad's statement picked up steam and several videos showed that she was in no danger during the goodwill tour, Hillary's campaign came out to say that she'd "misspoke."

Knowing a little about dictionaries, I took the liberty of looking up the word misspoke, and according to dictionary.com, it means: "To speak inaccurately, inappropriately, or too hastily." That's not actually what Hillary did here; she may have "misspoke" when she said that she "misspoke," but she didn't misspeak when she said she landed in Bosnia in the midst of sniper fire: She fucking lied.

Big difference.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).