The press has dedicated itself to the election of Barack Obama. How else to explain the story carried by all of the wire services and news reports about her trip to Bosnia. In examining events like this it is important to remember the Vorlon* proverb: Truth is a three-edged sword. In other words there is your version of the truth, my version, and what actually happened.
What Hillary said was that they were under sniper fire when she accompanied a good will tour to Bosnia. They had to skip the welcoming ceremonies and hurry from the plane to armored vehicles.
The press quoted actor Sinbad as saying that he didn't remember any of that and they found file footage of a young girl presenting something to Hillary.
What actually happened - there were threats of snipers so the plane had to come it on a steep approach to present less of a target. The official welcoming was canceled but an unofficial welcoming with the young girl happened.
So Hillary exaggerated the threat. Al Gore did the same thing in 2000 when he claimed that he had been under fire in Viet Nam. The press presented something that was not an official welcoming as something different and ignored the reports of possible snipers, giving the impression that Hillary told a bare-face lie instead of an exaggeration.
* Vorlons were ancient aliens in the TV series Babylon 5.
UPDATE: Hot Air points out that Obama has a few problems with the truth, also. He claimed that his father came to America as a result of the Selma marches but he was born before the marches happened.
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