Presenting the newest production from The Jed Report -- Bosnia and Back Again, the story of Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. AMERICAblog declares it is "the most spectacular display of sniper fire since Tuzla." Senator Clinton plays herself in a performance The Field calls "a paid political ad for John McCain." Watch the trailer now:
Update 2: Someone out there doesn't want people to see this video. It's now been buried twice on digg -- the 2nd time after getting 200 digs in 2.5 hours. Anyone have any visibility as to how burying works on digg?
Update: Somehow the original digg got buried despite getting 300 diggs in less than 12 hours. So a new digg has been set up that links to the video hosted on jedreport.com. Please digg it too.
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(For those of you who don't have Flash, or can't play YouTube videos, the three minute clip runs through Senator Clinton's tall tales on Bosnia, Iraq, NAFTA, elitism, being Annie Oakley, moving in and out of a drawl, and finally talking about her newfound wealth.)
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The story behind Bosnia and Back Again:
A few days ago, fellow kossack MasterSitsu, sent me an e-mail. His subject line: "OMG I hit the video goldmine." He wasn't kidding -- he had found unbroadcast footage of Hillary Clinton from a 1992 interview on 60 Minutes. MasterSitsu suggested a video highlighting the stark contrast between her rhetoric then and her actions now, and I took his idea and ran with it.
Update: MasterSitsu makes an appearance in the comment thread. Throw some recc love his way!
I'd been wanting to put together a video that would serve as a bookend to Hillary in Tuzla: The Story of Bosnian Sniper Fire, but until MasterSitsu sent me the 60 Minutes footage, I hadn't felt like I had enough material to make a strong video.
Another person who helped find a key piece of video for Bosnia and Back Again is Carthage -- who found the footage of Clinton's cookies-and-tea stereotype of stay-at-home moms.
One interesting side note: the 60 Minutes interview from which the outtakes were pulled was aired after the Superbowl in January 1992 shortly before the New Hampshire primary. At the time, a variety of scandals including charges of marital infidelity threatened to destroy the Clinton campaign, but in this interview the Clintons managed to get his campaign back on track, ultimately sending him to the White House. (None of the outtake footage directly deals with any of the scandals. We're not the business of doing Ken Starr's work here at The Jed Report.)
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Another observation, though not directly related to the video:
Today's WaPo (diaried here) seems to confirm what we had hoped -- Clinton's "bitter" gambit boomeranged. I think the most revealing passage was this one -- and it had nothing to do with the poll itself:
One Clinton insider announced in a strategy meeting it was ridiculous to have imagined the first lady ever having been in danger, or for Clinton to have thought she was -- a slap at the senator from New York that other advisers described as disrespectful.
That right there is the entire problem of the Clinton campaign. Saying something obviously true is considered a slap. In healthy organizations, telling the truth is rewarded. In dysfunctional organizations, it's treated as disrespect and you get shunned.
We can't afford another President who won't let his or her staff speak truth to power.
That's the kind of organizational failure that gets us into Iraq.
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Also posted on The Jed Report.