Hillary’s Flak Jacket Bonafides

The amazing thing about Hillary’s Bosnia warzone story/fabrication/misremembrance was that she told the story over and over again — it was even a regular part of her stump speech! And many members of the press, especially those covering the Clinton campaign, were well aware that it was a total fabrication. “She misremembered” is the polite way some have characterized it.

Required reading on the story: Jonathan Alter’s The Tales Hillary Tells, in Newsweek’s April 7th issue, now online. Here is his remarkable closing paragraph:

The coda to the Tuzla Tale was the way Hillary tried to defuse it. Where the late New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia said amiably, “When I make a mistake, it’s a beaut!” or Obama confessed to being “boneheaded” in dealing with shady donor Tony Rezko, Hillary said sarcastically: “This proves I’m human, which for some people is a revelation.” It was all there—the pain, the resentment and the sense of what it would be like to spend four or eight years listening to her respond to criticism as president.

Watch this lovely parody of “Hillary’s Tall Tuzla Tale” posted on YouTube by the Jedreport: