One fib or two?
Did President Clinton fib twice or just once? In the quote below from a speech the former President gave in Las Vegas, he referred to an Obama radio ad, and apparently completely mischaracterized it.
There’s a radio ad up in the northern part of Nevada telling Republicans that they ought to just register as Democrats for a day so they can beat Hillary and go out and be Republicans next week and vote in the primary…
Listen to the ads yourself and see if you agree:
So there appears to be at least one untruth in play from the former President. But it doesn’t stop there. In the same speech at a Las Vegas YMCA, Clinton alleged voter intimidation by the Culinary Workers Union that endorsed Obama:
Today when my daughter and I were wandering through the hotel, and all these culinary workers were mobbing us telling us they didn’t care what the union told them to do, they were gonna caucus for Hillary. There was a representative of the organization following along behind us going up to everybody who said that, saying ‘if you’re not gonna vote for our guy were gonna give you a schedule tomorrow so you can’t be there.’…
The Politico got a response from the Union:
“This is ludicrous,” Culinary Workers political director Pilar Weiss told Politico. She said the union is “aware that some workers aren’t going to vote our way” and doesn’t engage in intimidation. “The fact that they lost a lawsuit aimed at suppressing workers’ votes, and that now they’re trying to hold on to these baseless claims is ridiculous,” she said. Weiss also said Clinton’s claim is “technically impossible.”
Comments: (a) President Clinton’s untruths hint at more than a little lack of confidence, even though his wife won in Nevada; (b) concocting the apparently false charges of media distortion and voter intimidation seems to be pretty revealing about the way the former President’s mind works.