by John Stevenson
As you read this, Hillary
Rodham Clinton is being coronated in Philadelphia as the Democrat nominee for
President of the United States.
In his Jan. 6, 1996 essay
"Blizzard of Lies," William Safire wrote: "Americans of all political persuasions
are coming to the realization that our First Lady...is a congenital liar."
On a trip to Nepal in April
1995, Hillary Clinton told reporters she had been named in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary. Sir Edmund, along with Tenzing Norgay, became
the first to climb to the summit of Mount Everest---"the top of the world." Clinton was born in 1947, but Sir Edmund
conquered Everest in 1953. Before that,
he was unknown in the United States. So
the only possible way that Clinton's claim could be true would be if Dorothy
Rodham had, at the time of her daughter's birth, foreseen Sir Edmund's
six-years-in-the-future achievement.
In a March 17, 2008 speech at
George Washington University, Clinton described her March 25, 1996 trip to
Bosnia. "I remember landing under
sniper fire. There was supposed to be
some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with
our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." (Shades of Brian Williams, removed from his
anchor position at NBC for a similar concoction.) Soon after, video emerged showing Clinton and
16-year old Chelsea walking calmly from the airplane and stopping to chat with
greeters including an eight year old girl who presented a poem. In fact, the Bosnian war had been over for
three months, the Dayton Peace Accords having been signed in December
1995. Clinton was accompanied on the
trip by the singer Sheryl Crow and the entertainer Sinbad. The Washington Post awarded her "four
Pinocchios" for this one.
In the third Democrat primary
election debate, on Dec. 19, 2015 at St. Anselm College, Clinton offered
this: "He is becoming ISIS' best
recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting
Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists." Assessing various claims made during the
debate, the website FactCheck.org said "there is no evidence that the
Islamic State group has used videos of Trump as a recruiting tool…" although
they still might do so in the future. In
an odd twist, ISIS did in fact release a four-minute recruiting video (in
English) the month before the third debate.
That video showed images of U.S. politicians, including Bill Clinton,
who the video labels "the fornicator." Busy lying about Trump, Mrs. Clinton forgot
to mention that.
The odd thing about these
three whoppers is that they were so unnecessary. Unlike "I did not email any classified
material to anyone on my email," or "I did not have sex with that
woman," these three whoppers were totally gratuitous. They weren't used to cover up anything, or to
wiggle out of a tight spot. They were
just made up---period.
