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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 10:58 AM
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Hillary Says 8-Year-Old Bosnian Girl Was Actually Sniper

Bouquet of Flowers Hid Semiautomatic Weapon

Accused in recent days of embellishing her story of a brush with sniper fire in Bosnia, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton today said “don’t be fooled” by photos showing her being greeted at the airport by a pony-tailed 8-year-old Bosnian girl with a bouquet of flowers.

“That was no little girl,” Sen. Clinton told reporters in Gary, Indiana. “That was a covert ops midget sniper.”

The New York senator said that moments after the “so-called little girl” presented her with the flowers, she revealed what the bouquet had been hiding: “a tiny semi-automatic weapon.”

“Fortunately, I had the presence of mind to use some of the Tae Kwon Do techniques I had learned in preparation for the Northern Ireland peace talks,” she said.

more . . . http://www.borowitzreport.com/
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theboss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:03 AM
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1. This was the plot of GI Joe #33
Billy was used by Major Bludd in an assassination attempt on Cobra Commander.

Turned out Billy was CC's son.

He later became a ninja.

Such a good comic book.
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Apollo11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:03 AM
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2. Another article for ya
Washington Post - March 24, 2008

Both Obama And Clinton Embellish Their Roles

By Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman


After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the "President's Room," just off the Senate chamber, with a deal on new immigration policy.

As the half-dozen senators -- including John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) -- headed to announce their plan, they met Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who made a request common when Capitol Hill news conferences are in the offing: "Hey, guys, can I come along?" And when Obama went before the microphones, he was generous with his list of senators to congratulate -- a list that included himself.

"I want to cite Lindsey Graham, Sam Brownback, Mel Martinez, Ken Salazar, myself, Dick Durbin, Joe Lieberman . . . who've actually had to wake up early to try to hammer this stuff out," he said.

To Senate staff members, who had been arriving for 7 a.m. negotiating sessions for weeks, it was a galling moment. Those morning sessions had attracted just three to four senators a side, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) recalled, each deeply involved in the issue. Obama was not one of them.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/23/AR2008032301706.html
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:04 AM
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3. Could we cut it out with these spoof threads?
Geez.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:05 AM
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4. Serious threads are attacked
So spoof it is!
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Bensthename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:09 AM
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6. How is this a spoof ? I read it too earlier. Let me get that link for ya.
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BigDaddy44 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:10 AM
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8. This is a spoof?
Given her recent track record, are you sure?
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Bensthename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:08 AM
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5. I knew she wasn't lying just to make her foreign experience seem relevant. Go Hillary, Haha
p.s. Lying about being shot at is some sick shit.
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Shae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:09 AM
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7. Hillarious article
'voters have a clear choice this election: do they want a liar or a plagiarist?”
“Hillary tells some real whoppers, but at least they’re original,” he said.'
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:11 AM
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9. Hillary Says She ‘Misspoke’ About Wrestling Bin Laden
Hillary Says She ‘Misspoke’ About Wrestling Bin Laden
Was Greeting Students in Orlando, Clinton Admits

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has been accused in recent days of padding her foreign policy resume while First Lady, admitted today that she may have exaggerated about an encounter she said she had with al-Qaeda terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in 1998.

In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Sen. Clinton told host Tim Russert, “I wrestled bin Laden in his cave in 1998 and had him pinned to the ground before the bastard got away.”

But a review of Sen. Clinton’s official White House schedule from that period revealed that the then-First Lady was nowhere in the vicinity of Mr. bin Laden on that day, but was instead greeting a group of honor roll students at Disney World in Orlando.

“I may have misspoke about what went on that particular day,” Sen. Clinton said today. “But it was a very busy time for me, what with having that knife-fight with Kim Jong-Il and all.”

Reporters peppered Sen. Clinton’s new press spokesman with questions about another purported exploit of hers, in which the senator claimed that she and a ragtag team of blue-collar drillers deflected an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth.

“Everything Hillary Clinton says is true,” said her new spokesman, the author James Frey.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:25 AM
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12. That one is even better!
:rofl:
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:31 AM
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14. James Fey.....
That was the best line in his story.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:26 AM
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13. dupe
Edited on Wed Mar-26-08 11:26 AM by proud2Blib
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:13 AM
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10. Dwarf sniper is the correct term
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:14 AM
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11. vertically challenged
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 11:33 AM
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15. Hey.. Borowitz ripped me off.. I posted this days ago
:grr: :rofl:
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-26-08 12:10 PM
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16. LOL
He plagiarized!
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