Sen. Hillary Clinton said she "misspoke" last week when she gave a dramatic description of her arrival in Bosnia 12 years ago, recounting a landing under sniper fire.
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Clinton has mentioned the sniper fire at least twice earlier in the campaign, including in December in Dubuque, Iowa, before the caucuses in that state.
The word "lie" or any variant thereof, is never mentioned in the article, yet "misspoke" is prominently featured in the headline. I suppose this isn't CNN's fault, but just the attitude of the MSM. However, if anyone still thinks Obama is getting unfair treatment in the media, here's another instance of the other way around. And 25 more... A summary from that post:
Even when Obama's coverage is more positive than Hillary's it can still be biased against him. If Obama earns an A, the media give him a B -. If Hillary earns a D, the media give her a C+. No matter what McCain does, he gets an A++++.
But the media goes and says, "Gee, we gave Obama a B- and we gave Hillary a C+, let's now wring our hands about how awful we are to Hillary." But grading on a curve, or false equivalency, or "even-steven-itis" is profoundly biased against a candidate like Obama who has been beating tremendous odds and run a nearly flawless campaign. Even if Obama sometimes gets better coverage than Hillary does, his coverage is consistently more negative than his actual performance and Hillary and McCain's are consistently more positive than their actual performances.
Mostly, I'm just really really tired of the media blithely repeating the Clinton talking points, especially the one about him getting unfair coverage. Maybe with the Wright thing, they'll stop saying it, but I am still not hearing calls for her tax returns from anyone in the MSM.
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