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Update, Friday morning: I just posted the video of Bill's remarks. Now I'm going to go catch a couple hours of sleep. When I wake up, I'll be working on a new Hillary (and Bill) in Tuzla trailer.

On Thursday, Bill Clinton decided to complain about the media and used Hillary's Bosnia story as example #1. (Transcript from ABC, with my own debunking.)

Bill in Boonsville, IN defends the tale

BILL: A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me. But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995. Did y'all see all that. Oh, they blew it up. Let me just tell you.

"One time late at night"? Um, not exactly, Bill. Try at at least three different days -- and at least 2 of them were not late at night at all. And it was 1996, Bill. 1996!

BILL: The president of Bosnia and Gen. Wesley Clark -- who was there making peace where we'd lost three peacekeepers who had to ride on a dangerous mountain road because it was too dangerous to go the regular, safe way -- both defended her because they pointed out that when her plane landed in Bosnia, she had to go up to the bulletproof part of the plane, in the front. Everybody else had to put their flack jackets underneath the seat in case they got shot at. And everywhere they went they were covered by Apache helicopters.

Okay...she did go into the cockpit. But the airplane's pilot said the flak jacket thing was bunk. Nice, irrelevant story about Wes Clark, by the way.

BILL: So they just abbreviated the arrival ceremony.

Whoa there bill. Did you not see the eight-year-old girl reading Hillary and Chelsea that poem?

BILL: Now I say that because, what really has mattered is that even then she was interested in our troops. And I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you woulda thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they carried on about this.

Yeah, she was the first First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt...except for that other First Lady, Pat Nixon, who went to a war zone in Vietnam in 1969.

BILL: And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11:00 at night, too.

Again, with this 11:00 at night nonsense! Repeat after me Bill:

None of them at 11PM. None!

p.s.: It's even worse that you're blaming her age for the her Bosnia lies. If you think she can't tell a straight story at 11PM at night, what's she gonna' do at 3AM?

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