Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege

More of Hillary’s Phantasmagorical stories.

Another campaign gaffe by Hillary… She rambles on in a continuing trend of campaign lies.

Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not come up with a $100 fee.

The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.

“We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story,” said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System.

Linda M. Weiss, a spokeswoman for the not-for-profit hospital, said the Clinton campaign had never contacted the hospital to check the accuracy of the story, which Mrs. Clinton had first heard from a Meigs County, Ohio, sheriff’s deputy in late February.

A Clinton spokesman, Mo Elleithee, said candidates would frequently retell stories relayed to them, vetting them when possible. “In this case, we did try but were not able to fully vet it,” Mr. Elleithee said. “If the hospital claims it did not happen that way, we respect that.”

Now if Hillary is that gullible to believe everything that she hears, she isn’t responsible enough to become President.

Oh no she’s in trouble now. The MSM, specifically ABC, is running with the story. It is not good to be Hillary again this week…

t/b: Hot Air

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~ There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. ~

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hillary! A pathological liar?

Lied Is A Better Description. Hillary is now claiming she misspoke about her adventure in Tuzla in 1996. When you write about it in your book and repeat it in your speeches it is more than a lie. It is bordering on some sort mental schism.

Does Hillary have the mental capacity to be President? It leads me to believe she isn’t bound too tightly, a loose unit, all the lights are on up there, but no one is running around…

The NY Times calls it an error. I call it a lie.

Mrs. Clinton admitted that she “misspoke” about the episode — a concession that came after CBS News showed footage of her walking calmly across the tarmac with her daughter, Chelsea, and being greeted by dignitaries and a child.

The backpedaling was a rare instance of Mrs. Clinton’s acknowledging an error, and she did so on a sensitive issue: She has cited her “strength and experience” since the start of the presidential race, framing her 80 trips abroad as first lady as preparation for dealing with foreign affairs as president. That argument was behind her campaign’s “red phone” commercial, which cast her as best able to handle a crisis.

Mrs. Clinton corrected herself at a meeting with the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board; she did not explain why she had misspoken, but only admitted it and then offered a less dramatic description.

Mrs. Clinton said she had been told “that we had to land a certain way and move quickly because of the threat of sniper fire,” not that actual shots were being fired.

“So I misspoke,” she said.

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Mrs. Clinton had described the sniper fire in similar terms at least twice in recent weeks. She mentioned it on Feb. 29 in Waco, Tex., when she was rolling out her “red phone” commercial, recalling the trip to Bosnia and saying that the welcoming ceremony “had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.”

The MSM couldn’t avoid this story or put it in a redeeming light for Hillary.

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t/b: Hot Air, Stop The ACLU, Rhymes With Right, Michelle Malkin

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