'A charitable word’: NYT reporter gives another name to Hillary Clinton's lie

Republicans lie. Democrats misspeak. Those apostates who believe Hillary Clinton did either should report to the nearest reeducation camp.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 16, 2015

Campaigning in Iowa, Hillary Clinton reportedly lied about her family heritage.

If we run Hillary’s apparently false claim through the New York Times’ decoder, we get this translation:

Huh – Clinton misstated her grandmother was an immigrant while in Iowa http://t.co/9w4zCKRIdg

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 16, 2015

“Misstated”?

One person’s “misstated” is another person’s “lied”:

@maggieNYT @jpodhoretz "misstated multiple times"

— Benjamin Glaser (@WVPitt) April 16, 2015

.@maggieNYT If Hillary is misstating things, you know at her age and everything, this could be something worse.

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 16, 2015

"misstated" RT @maggieNYT Huh – Clinton misstated her grandmother was an immigrant while in Iowa http://t.co/1b5LUehDy8

— jon gabriel (@exjon) April 16, 2015

Secretary of Misstate. https://t.co/aiOs5NDv0p

— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) April 16, 2015

@exjon @maggienyt @whpresscorps next statement will be how she "regrets" the error

— Will Riemer (@wriemer) April 16, 2015

@maggieNYT Misstated is a charitable word here.

— Gerry Daly (@GerryDales) April 16, 2015

https://twitter.com/GayPatriot/status/588526502712627201

My upbringing taught me that this is called lying https://t.co/2HMidR2tty

— Kevin (@kevinpost) April 16, 2015

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https://twitter.com/KeviKev10/status/588526578235125760

Misstated? Um, misrepresented for 20+ YEARS!!! MT @maggieNYT: Huh – Clinton misstated her grandmother was an immigrant while in Iowa

— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) April 16, 2015

.@maggieNYT If Hillary is misstating things, you know at her age and everything, this could be something worse.

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 16, 2015

https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/588533869994975233
https://twitter.com/mrgeology/status/588530118160703490

@maggieNYT Pretty soon all these little lies will start to add up and the journalists covering her may start to see a bit of a trend. Huh.

— Shane Styles (@shaner5000) April 16, 2015

@exjon Her grandmother must be part of the vast right-wing conspiracy. How dare she not be an immigrant?

— Prof. Mark Youngkin (@mayoungkin) April 16, 2015

Parsed, Bill Clinton-style:

https://twitter.com/SNienow/status/588524899133575168

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