To the rescue! CNN softens the blow after Hillary gets caught in 9/11 lie

Sarah D. | 3:27 PM on November 03, 2016

At a Florida rally earlier this week, Hillary Clinton reminded her audience that she was in New York City on September 11, 2001. Just one little problem:

Hillary Clinton incorrectly tells an audience in Florida that she was in New York on 9/11. She wasn't. Here is what she said: pic.twitter.com/Qsxv7kzz0i

— Dan Merica (@merica) November 1, 2016

Oops! Lucky for Hillary, CNN was ready and willing to run some interference:

Reality Check: Hillary Clinton misleads about her 9/11 whereabouts https://t.co/QNEZ5yPcAx pic.twitter.com/ckzxUkt7BW

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 3, 2016

“Misleads”?

I guess the word "lies" was too strong pic.twitter.com/PxmP4pgGAp

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) November 3, 2016

Guess so.

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/794255105935736834

CNN’s Steven A. Holmes writes:

That’s just not true. In her book, Hard Choices she says she arrived in the city the day after the terrorist attacks.

“After a long, sleepless night in Washington, I flew to New York with Chuck Schumer, my partner in the Senate, on a special plane operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” she wrote. “The city was in lockdown, and we were the only ones in the sky that day, except for the Air Force fighters patrolling overhead.”

Clinton has recounted this same narrative many, many times, making her rally comments puzzling.

Actually, the only thing that’s puzzling about this is that Holmes finds Hillary’s inconsistency puzzling. The woman is nothing if not a pathological liar.

And CNN is nothing if not willing to “mislead” readers when Hillary benefits.

https://twitter.com/Jake2J1Buckeye/status/794254012816171008