Daily Blog Buzz: Breaking News: Bill Clinton Lied

Well, there are a lot of problems with this account, as Political Radar explains. For example, “Hillary Clinton actually made the exaggerated comments numerous times, including at an event in Dubuque, Iowa on Dec. 29th, in Waco, TX on Feb. 29th, and twice — bright and early in the morning — on March 17.” And another: He got the year wrong. ABC’s Jake Tapper also fact-checked Bill’s remarks and found them lacking in, well, facts. And the Power Line bloggers concluded that the “whole story is bogus.” Bloggers say this can only be bad news for the rapidly sinking Clinton campaign. The Vodkapundit Stephen Green says, “Bill just has to remind us that they’re both big liars, just when the last lie was fading from view. Is there any other conclusion to reach other than Clinton is sabotaging his own wife’s campaign?” And Ariel Alexovich at the New York Times‘s Caucus blog notes, “Perhaps he’s forgotten his own admonition after catching a lot of heat for speaking out on her behalf earlier this year. Just a month or so ago, Mr. Clinton announced that he had learned a lesson–that he should stick to simply promoting her, not defending her.” The Jawa Report’s Mike Pechar provides some convincing evidence that Bill might be purposely sabotaging the campaign. After all, Bill already enjoys the perks of the presidency. And his line about Hillary forgetting “something when [she’s] tired at 11:00 at night” prompts the Swamp’s John Riley to ask, “But at 3 am, she’ll be wide awake?” Perhaps Bill just can’t help himself. As Allahpundit says, “This sort of thing simply has to be compulsive for him. In no rational world does it make sense to reintroduce this subject, lie about it, and lie about it so clumsily that the press would have to rub his face in it even if they didn’t want to.” Jennifer Rubin agrees: “Maybe he’s a hopeless, pathological fabulist. Or maybe he just doesn’t understand how hard it is to get away with easily fact-checked lies in a 24/7 news environment.”