Hillary Caught in Misstatement Over First Lady Trip; Detroit Mayor Pleads Not Guilty to Eight Felony Charges; Are Politicians Disconnected from the Economy?
GLENN BECK, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, Hillary under fire.</s>SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles.</s>BECK: Well, kind of. I mean, either her memory is shooting blanks or that`s the world`s worst sniper.</s>CLINTON: I remember landing under sniper fire.</s>BECK: With bogus statements like that, the Clintons never cease to amaze me. Plus, the scandal involving Detroit`s mayor highlights a crisis in confidence in American. No, I`m sorry, confidence in our politicians. Does the case of the so-called "hip-hop mayor" mirror our disgust with all politicians? And finding the new bubble. In the `90s, it was the tech stocks. Then, it was housing. I`ll tell you what sectors is ripe and ready to burst next. All this and more tonight.</s>BECK: Hey, everybody. I`m just watching that lineup and saying to myself, I cannot believe they gave me my television show. But here we are. Hello, America. I don`t want to shock you, so please sit down, because I have some amazing news. A politician named Clinton may have actually told an untruth. Yes. I know it`s hard to believe, but we`re going to try to pull ourselves together and get through it tonight. Here`s "The Point": politicians, especially those named Clinton, are so used to being dishonest that they`ve forgotten where the lies end and the truth begins. And here`s how I got there. In a speech last week, Hillary waxed poetic about a March 1996 trip to Bosnia. As Clinton put it, she and her daughter, Chelsea, ran under sniper fire. They had to run with their heads down to get from their plane to the vehicles that were waiting for them. Trouble is the videotape remembers things quite a bit differently. Here`s Hillary Clinton, setting the scene as she paints the picture during her speech, and the actual footage that, unfortunately for her, CBS News shot at the exact same event. One of these things -- I learned this from "Sesame Street" -- not like the other.</s>CLINTON: There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport. But instead, we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.</s>BECK: Yes. Here`s the really scary part. I mean, I don`t know if Hillary Clinton was lying and hoping that nobody had a camera there or she`s so delusional, that in her mind, there were actual sniper bullets, you know, snapping overhead. Hillary now says she just misspoke. But I believe that as much as I believe my son, Rafe, when he`s got cookie crumbs all over his mouth, "Do you have a cookie in your mouth that you aren`t supposed to have," and he says, "Huh-unh." Come on! Tonight, here`s what you need to know. Videotape doesn`t lie, and unfortunately, it lasts forever. Plus, come on, we should have known that Hillary was full of it when we found out who else was on that Bosnia trip. Sheryl Crow went with her and the star of 1977`s "Good Burger," Sinbad. You know what? If the military doesn`t mind, you know, sending rock stars out and comedians, but they won`t send them into a war zone, you know, even though I don`t hate that idea. You can guarantee that they`re not sending out the first lady. You know, and the other thing about this story that it just kills me is, I`m not really even sure why this is news. There`s nothing new about it. Is there anybody really surprised? When you first heard this story, did you go, "Shut up! Clinton lied?" Mort Zuckerman is the editor-in-chief of "U.S. News & World Report." Mort, I`ve got to tell you. Here`s my real problem on this. The Obama story had a shelf life of about 20 minutes. And that tells us something about him. It tells us what his beliefs are, et cetera, et cetera. This isn`t really a story, is it?</s>MORT ZUCKERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, "U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT": If you`re referring to the story about Hillary Clinton, no, I don`t think it is a story but not for the reasons that you do.</s>BECK: All right.</s>ZUCKERMAN: I really don`t think that she was out there to deliberately misrepresent what happened. She has just been in and out of so many of those trips so long, I`m sure she just got it confused. And you know, it`s just too obvious that somebody would catch her up on it. And she apologized and said, look, I made a mistake.</s>BECK: All right.</s>ZUCKERMAN: I just do not share the same apprehension about this story as do you. It`s a natural instinct among politicians, as you notice, somehow or another all embellish their experiences. They all do it.</s>BECK: This isn`t embellishment. This is solely -- look at the line. She said, we didn`t -- we didn`t exactly have a tea party. No, you had 8- year-old kids reading poetry to you. So it`s not -- it`s not embellishing. It`s wholly made up. She was there, but it wasn`t anything like that.</s>ZUCKERMAN: Well, you know, I`ll tell you, I have been on a similar trip with other politicians, and I can tell you that they tended to exaggerate exactly what happened. So I can`t give you a better answer for it than that.</s>BECK: All right.</s>ZUCKERMAN: I`m just telling you, it happens over and over again. And I`m not saying it`s because they lie. I mean, "The New York Times" did a front-page story on how the presidential candidates, both Hillary and Obama, exaggerated their role in the U.S. Senate.</s>BECK: Sure.</s>ZUCKERMAN: I mean, could we be surprised? That`s what politicians do.</s>BECK: No.</s>ZUCKERMAN: Any time you work for a public figure, whatever staff level job or position you had or advisory position you had, they take all the credit for it, as if they did all the work. It`s just in the nature of the system. When you sell cars, you try and exaggerate the performance of cars. That`s the way it works.</s>BECK: I think that`s the best thing -- that`s the best way to explain a politician I think I`ve ever heard.</s>ZUCKERMAN: Yes.</s>BECK: Car salesman. And don`t we all want to hang out with them? This is not going -- I don`t think this is going to hurt Hillary Clinton. You`re not learning any new information here on this story. However, again, the black liberation theology behind Barack Obama`s church is disturbing, and yet nobody will cover that one. But I don`t think that is even going to hurt Barack Obama. I don`t think that`s really going to take him down. Is any story -- could anything be said about a politician people would say, you know what, I don`t think I can vote for him?</s>ZUCKERMAN: Well, actually, I do think some of these stories can be damaging. I do think there is a sense, over time, that the Clintons have accumulated, which is that there is this tendency to exaggerate their role and their accomplishments. I don`t disagree with that. There is, I think, an inherent danger to Obama in this whole relationship that he had to his pastor.</s>BECK: Yes.</s>ZUCKERMAN: That has yet to be satisfied. He did not really address that in the speech that he gave. And I think it is something that the Democrats may be very wary of using against him.</s>LEMON: Yes.</s>ZUCKERMAN: But the Republicans will not be, and they`re going to be able to publish and print out in advertisements, what have you, pictures of what he said. And it`s hard, I think, that people will just be a little bit reluctant to imagine that he was, for 21 years, in that particular church and only denied it when this whole thing blew up in his face.</s>BECK: You are right on the money on that one. Thank you very much, Mort. Now let me -- let me move from Hillary Clinton, because she got busted with videotape. Now, we turn to another politician who`s in trouble for 14,000 text messages. Yes. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick arraigned today on felony charges, perjury, misconduct, obstruction of justice. Authorities say that Kilpatrick fired police officers who were getting a little too close to uncovering his affair. They also accused the mayor of using $8 million of taxpayer money to cover the whole mess up. Now I want to get right to Steve Henderson. He is with us tonight. And he can tell us the whole story. He`s the deputy editor -- or editorial page editor for the "Detroit Free Press." Steve. You know what, I`m so far removed from this story, and I think most people are. They just know that it was sex and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But they were -- they were like stripper parties involved in this. And that`s how he really kind of got busted, isn`t it?</s>STEVE HENDERSON, EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR, "DETROIT FREE PRESS": Yes, well, I mean, that`s -- certainly been alleged that there was a wild party at the Manoogian Mansion, which is where the mayor lives here. And that was the catalyst for all of this. The party`s never been proven, in fact. And there was an investigation by the state attorney general into whether the party happened, and he said it didn`t. But these -- the consequences of this party and the lawsuit, the firing of the cops, that stuff has all just stayed with us now for six years and resulted in today, where you had the mayor of the city standing up in a court, saying "not guilty" in answer to eight felony charges.</s>BECK: I understand one of the strippers is dead, and there was maybe a murder or something like that. And the son -- the 14-year-old son said, "Mom told me" -- I don`t -- I don`t have a stripper mom, so I don`t know how much mom shares about her work, but "Mom told me that she was stripping at the mayor`s house and his wife walked in and beat her up" or something like that. What is that part of the story? Anything to that?</s>HENDERSON: You know, again, if the party -- no one`s ever been able to prove the party happened. I mean...</s>BECK: But you have the word of a stripper over the mayor. I`d take the stripper`s word every time.</s>HENDERSON: I think -- I think there`s a lot of people in Detroit who might be with you on that.</s>BECK: Yes. I think so, too.</s>HENDERSON: You know, the party, if it happened again, was the beginning of al this and the stuff that`s happened since, has been much more -- much more consequential and tragic for our city, I think. You know, I mean, we`ve got a mayor facing eight felony charges, refusing to leave office. And, you know...</s>BECK: OK.</s>HENDERSON: ... here I am on your show talking about it.</s>BECK: Yes, but I mean, really. I mean, how much more damage could you do to the city than I swear to you, I read in the "Wall Street Journal" today. The average -- the average home price now in Detroit is $22,000.</s>HENDERSON: Yes.</s>BECK: And when I read that, I thought to myself, I still don`t think that`s cheap enough. I just don`t think that`s cheap enough.</s>HENDERSON: I think you might be able to do better than that in some neighborhoods here. You know, we`re having a tough time in Detroit.</s>BECK: You bet.</s>HENDERSON: We`re having a tough time in Michigan, and this does not help. This does not...</s>BECK: He says he won`t -- he says he won`t resign. I`ve got 30 seconds. He says he won`t resign because he can`t get a fair trial. Why can`t he get a fair trial in Detroit?</s>HENDERSON: Yes. That`s absurd. That`s absurd. His resignation has nothing to do with him getting a fair trial. He can get a perfectly fair trial if he`s not mayor of Detroit. In fact, I think his trial will be much less sensationalized if he is -- if he is the former mayor than if he is mayor. So that`s total</s>B.S. BECK: Steve, thanks a lot, man. I appreciate it. We`ll stay in touch with you. Now, coming up, I`ve been telling you about a controversial Dutch film called "Fitna." Love those Dutch movies. This one is not even out yet, but it`s already cause -- creating a firestorm throughout the entire Islamic world. But there are attempts to censor it now by an American- based company. We`ll give you all the details. And we`ll take a look at how both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton plan to save the economy. They`re not going to make things much better. And I`ll tell you why pumping money into the economy is the last thing you want government to do. That`s in tonight`s "Real Story." 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