Three Pinocchios--Did Clinton laugh about

[riversedge]

Hillary has a good sense of humor but I do know that she has a nervous laugh--as I call it--others can call it something else or disagree. I have never found it anything to be but -present.





Fact Checker
Did Clinton laugh about a rapist’s light sentence and attack sexual harassment victims?

By Glenn Kessler May 19 at 3:00 AM

National Republican Senatorial Committee: 'Toxic' | Campaign 2016

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The National Republican Senatorial Committee released an ad on May 13 attacking Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton. (National Republican Senatorial Committee)

“Democrat Senate candidates need to ask themselves: Can they really support Hillary Clinton? She’s a living history of scandal, lies and spin. Defended an accused child rapist, then laughed about his lenient sentence. Whitewater. Travelgate. Chinagate. Filegate. She politically attacked sexual harassment victims, pretended she landed under sniper fire. Benghazi. The Clinton Foundation. FBI investigation. Ruthless. Fake accents, fake concerns, and fake laughs. Hillary Clinton. She’s the living embodiment of everything that people hate about politics. Democratic Senate candidates—she is your burden to bear.”

–voiceover of a cable/digital ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, May 13, 2016

This ad offers a kitchen sink of claims against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, presumably in response to claims by Democrats that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump will cost Senate Republicans their majority.




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The Pinocchio Test

These are both very complex situations that have been reduced to misleading sound bites. Clinton did defend a child rapist four decades ago, but at the request of the court –and she had a legal obligation to wage a solid defense of her client. The laughter on the tape is open to interpretation; certainly some might find it disturbingly lighthearted. But it’s a stretch to say she laughed about the sentence.

As for attacking sexual harassment victims, the timeline does not support the claim that Hillary Clinton attacked Lewinsky, knowing that her husband had had a relationship with her. The revelation came months later. The NRSC cited one quote, aimed apparently at Republicans, not victims, and thus it falls short. In the future, we expect we will explore other instances of “destroying” women cited by Clinton’s foes. The NRSC earns Three Pinocchios.


Three Pinocchios

[Thinkingabout]

1. Climb a tree and tell a lie when the truth sounds better on the ground.

[SharonClark]

2. LOL ---- Whitewater. Travelgate. Chinagate. Filegate.

All created by the hateful liars at the GOP.

[bluestateguy]

3. I continue to wait for Ken Starr's apology

But I know I'll be waiting awhile, as this is a guy who covers up rape at Baylor.

[Lord Magus]

4. And remember, Glenn Kessler bends over backwards to be generous to Republicans in his "fact checks".

When even he says a Republican claim is false, it clearly is total BS.

[Cha]

6. I do that about him.

[mcar]

5. Another lie, of course

How many times has it been posted here?