It's the misquoting, stupid

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/640637,CST-NWS-clinton08.article

BRONZEVILLE | Clinton comes to Obama turf to deny ripping him or others

November 8, 2007
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter/ [email protected]

Former President Bill Clinton came to Chicago Wednesday to preach environmentalism, plug his wife's candidacy for president -- and correct reports that he had criticized Hillary Clinton's Democratic rivals.

In the past few days, the former president has taken heat from Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Chris Dodd over news reports that he criticized them for "swift-boating" his wife at a debate.

But Clinton said he never criticized any of his wife's Democratic rivals for the presidency. He was criticizing the Republican-allied "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" who ran ads in the last election accusing Democrat John Kerry of exaggerating his Vietnam War experience. snip

At a speech in Las Vegas Monday, Bill Clinton warned that Republicans would use footage of the hand-raising moment to make a swift-boat-type "ad that says Democrats are against the rule of law."

That got misreported as Bill Clinton criticizing his wife's Democratic rivals for "swift-boating" her, prompting Obama to say he was "stunned" Bill Clinton would say such a thing and Dodd calling it "outrageous."

The irony is, "I never said that," Clinton said Wednesday, after a speech to 400 of his wife's supporters in the heart of Obama territory in the South Side's Bronzeville neighborhood. "I've got a hard and fast rule here: I don't criticize the other Democrats."

[MethuenProgressive]

1. "I've got a hard and fast rule here: I don't criticize the other Democrats."

This was interesting:

The rally was closed to the press. One organizer admitted some in the largely African-American crowd might have been squeamish about being outed as a Hillary Clinton supporter in Obama's hometown. Bill Clinton said he'd have opened the meeting.

[ecstatic]

2. LOL nt

[MethuenProgressive]

3. You are LOLing at how many were taken in by the MSM's misreporting?

Please don't laugh at them, for they were fooled by people much, much, much smarter than them.

[ecstatic]

4. I really don't know what the solution is... but I have suggestions

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3695489&mesg_id=3695489