Lost in the uproar over just how immensely craptacular the ABC News debate was, is the fact that Hillary Clinton flat out admitted lying repeatedly to the American public. At least, she admitted to doing that if you can define lying as saying something that you know not to be the case.
From the transcript:
Here’s Tom Rooney from Pittsburgh.
Q Senator, I was in your court until a couple of weeks ago. How do you reconcile the campaign of credibility that you have when you’ve made those comments about what happened getting off the plane in Bosnia, which totally misrepresented what really happened on that day? You really lost my vote. And what can you tell me to get that vote back?
SENATOR CLINTON: Well, Tom, I can tell you that I may be a lot of things, but I’m not dumb. And I wrote about going to Bosnia in my book in 2004. I laid it all out there. And you’re right. On a couple of occasions in the last weeks I just said some things that weren’t in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book. And, you know, I’m embarrassed by it. I have apologized for it. I’ve said it was a mistake. And it is, I hope, something that you can look over, because clearly I am proud that I went to Bosnia. It was a war zone.
It’s unusual for a candidate to flat-out admit to lying. In a case of false heroism, it is particularly noteworthy. Let’s not let this admission get lost in cacophony over how lousy the debate moderation was.
