Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Pinocchio Rodham-Clinton

shrillaryThe fact that CBS exposed Hillary's Tuzla fraud this week just adds to the enormous pile of reasons why she's unfit to serve as president: she seems pathologically incapable of telling the truth (sadly, that won't dissuade the obtuse Clinton loyalists).

Michelle Malkin coined a brilliant term – "Truth Deficit Disorder" – to describe Hillary Clinton's megalomaniacal continuation of her husband's legacy of prevarication. And her brazen attempts to rewrite history have become so numerous it's gonna take a scorecard to separate fact from fiction.

Luckily, former Clinton political adviser Dick Morris assembled a (possibly incomplete) list of Hillary's lies.

Admitted Lies
  • Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)

  • Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)

  • She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)

  • She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn't cover the market back then.)

Whoppers She Won't Confess To
  • She didn't know about the FALN pardons.

  • She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.

  • Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.

  • She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.

  • She didn't know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.

  • She opposed NAFTA at the time.

  • She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.

  • She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.

  • She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.

  • The billing records showed up on their own.

  • She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.

  • She was always a Yankees fan.

  • She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).

  • She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
With a record like that, is it any wonder that we suspect her of being less than honest and straightforward?
I'll wager the list of Hillary's distortions is actually a lot longer. Starting with the claim on her website "Hillary's American Health Choices Plan covers all Americans and improves health care by lowering costs and improving quality. It speaks to American values, American families, and American jobs."

See?
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UPDATE: There are many other really good posts covering Hillary's Tuzla deceit...
Allahpundit skewers her "I'm only human" excuse. With clips.
Jenn of the Jungle posted the video of CBS' exposé on the lie.
Texas Rainmaker has a good summary of the damage control continuing lies.