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Mar
30
The New York Times’ Frank Rich asks why Hillary Clinton kept repeating her Bosnia war story — even after it had been shown to be exaggerated.
MOST politicians lie. Most people over 50, as I know all too well, misremember things. So here is the one compelling mystery still unresolved about Hillary Clinton’s Bosnia fairy tale: Why did she keep repeating this whopper for nearly three months, well after it had been publicly debunked by journalists and eyewitnesses?
Even worse for Hillary Clinton, argues Frank Rich, is that news today doesn’t just flow from the major media where it is easier for a candidate to control the spin, but from the bottom up via the internet.
But politically and culturally we’re not in the 1980s — or pre-YouTube 2004 — anymore. An unending war abroad is upstaging the old domestic racial ghosts. A new bottom-up media culture is challenging any candidate’s control of a message.
What does it say about a candidate that she’d keep repeating a “fish tale” despite multiple reports that it wasn’t true?
