Clinton’s Bosnia trip: Oops, my bad!

From Mark Silva’s Swampland blog:

"Our friends over at the Endless Loop desk in Cable TV Newsland are having a heyday with videotape of former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s landing in Bosnia – the one where she was ducking her head to dodge incoming bullets, the way she told it recently, or the one where she strode, smiling and waving on to the tarmac for a festive greeting, as the video tells it. Clinton’s campaign explains that the senator “misspoke” last week when she said at a campaign appearance that she had landed amidst sniper fire in her journey to Bosnia as first lady in March 1996. And this week she has described the retelling as a “misstatement.’’ Newsreel footage of the Bosnia landing, which has been replaying at roughly the frequency of snippets of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s most fiery sermons on the cable news outlets, portrays a smiling Clinton, followed by her daughter, striding out from the belly of a cargo transport to happily greet a receiving line that includes a little girl."

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