Monday, June 09, 2003 :::
The Reuters headline reads, "Sen. Clinton Rules Out 2008 Presidential Bid". But here's the quote:
"I don't have any intentions or plans of running," Clinton said, according to a transcript of the ABC interview.
Now, Hillary Clinton and I are very different people, but if I said this, I wouldn't mean it as a commitment. I have no "intentions or plans" to run for the state legislature in 2008, but I haven't ruled it out. I suspect that most of the people who will turn out to be candidates for president in 2008 -- especially on the Democratic side -- are people who aren't currently intending or planning it.
In other words, she didn't say anything, and Reuters tricked me into reading their article by lying in the headline. I'd like to point out this paragraph, too, though:
Her book reveals the former president lied to her about his affair with Lewinsky, a White House intern, for seven months, finally coming clean days before he was to testify to a grand jury.
Considering how careful reporters often are to use words like "alleged", and how much debate there's been over the veracity of her claims, the verb "reveal" seems unusual. Maybe it's just me.
::: posted by Steven at 10:22 AM
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