Sinbad, 1, Hillary Clinton, 0?

Caught in a Lie

Last week, when Sinbad delivered a half-joking/half-serious critique of Hillary Clinton's description of a Bosnia trip — also attended by the comedian himself and Sheryl Crow — as harrowing, dangerous, and a good example of how she's prepared to lead, I thought it was funny but that it would end there. Then, much to the Clinton campaign's chagrin, the Washington Post decided to do this weird thing called "fact-checking" and found that "there are numerous problems with Clinton's version of events," particularly the part of her story about landing at the airport under sniper fire and running for cover. The video of the welcome ceremony tells a different story, although her campaign says that edited video footage does not show the full picture. For her part, Clinton acknowledges that she probably "misspoke."

Mar 25, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 10 Responses

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Comments (10)

No. 1 · jazi

Lies always come back to bite you in the azz.

Posted: Mar 25, 2008 at 12:19 pm

No. 2 · BackStage

All right Hillary folks…Where are you on this one?!!!!!!

Posted: Mar 25, 2008 at 12:56 pm

No. 3 · blackmistressdiva

Right here! And I say so what. All politicians lie. Normal everyday folks do it, too, well..maybe not the people who visit this blog of course, but it's not a big deal and it won't change my views at all. Take that, take that, BackStage!

Posted: Mar 25, 2008 at 1:17 pm

No. 4 · tothemax

I see a Tyler Perry movie in Sinbad's future.

Posted: Mar 25, 2008 at 2:02 pm

No. 5 · souldecirce

What I loved was that after Sinbad made those comments, Clinton got her black male friend to defend her:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fThso6A1J1E

Posted: Mar 25, 2008 at 2:03 pm

No. 6 · Anon

BMD,

So blatant lies are OK (not just in this case but the Ireland example and many others), the race baiting-well you don't acknowledge it while most AA's as well as Whites do. So is it all about woman power? Please make me understand. HRC has NO integrity. Furthermore, did she think the American people were idiots. She knew there was footage of this. She knew she wrote the truth in her book. Does it not bother you to have a Pres that pretends she doesn't know the difference b/t sniper fire and a photo op with an 8 yr old??????

And since she "misspoke" in a prepared speech that she recited many times and claimed to remember this sniper fire when/where did it happen? Surely it had to have happened since she remembered it so intricately!

Posted: Mar 25, 2008 at 4:20 pm

No. 7 · Anon

Soul,

Yeah, you gotta have that token Black to back you up!!!!!! "Some of my best friends are Black, they said it was OK"!

Posted: Mar 25, 2008 at 4:22 pm

No. 8 · souldecirce

Anon,

HRC repeated this story so many times–the Togo West video doesn't even represent the amount of shielding /shilling / shucking and jiving he did for her regarding this story.

That BMD comment was just too silly for words.

Posted: Mar 25, 2008 at 4:30 pm

No. 9 · susie

like most of her comments

Posted: Mar 25, 2008 at 6:12 pm

No. 10 · Crunch

if you’re in the mood for a good laugh, I found a pretty funny impersonation of Sinbad:

http://digitalfuntown.squaresp.....-ever.html

Posted: Apr 3, 2008 at 5:01 pm

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