NYT invents fake scandal about one of Bill Clinton’s greatest successes

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9/2/16 10:46am by John Aravosis

... The crux of the Times’ “scandal” is that an aide to Bill Clinton asked the State Department for a diplomatic passport for two of his staff ...

The two Bill Clinton staffers weren’t asking for a diplomatic passport so they could pick up chicks at Euro Disney. They were heading on a secret diplomatic mission to North Korea, with Bill Clinton, to negotiate the release of two American journalists held hostage by the North Korean regime. One of the journalists Bill Clinton rescued, Laura Ling, is the younger sister of CNN correspondent Lisa Ling ...

Mind you, let’s just ignore the fact that Clinton did it, he saved the two journalists ...

http://americablog.com/2016/09/nyt-invents-fake-scandal-one-bill-clintons-greatest-successes.html

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1. I remember that. It was like nothing I'd seen before

Bill Clinton as the hero that saved the day.