The Journal Blankets the Campaign

Murdoch's New York Post, by contrast, goes with a big "INSULT" headline:

"The Bosnian girl who famously read a poem to Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 1996 visit to the war-torn country is shocked -- and her countrymen infuriated -- that the former first lady claimed to have dodged sniper fire that day."

And the quote from 20-year-old Emina Bicakcic, on which the story was based: "I was surprised when I heard this."

Other columnists continue to smack Hillary around for her Bosnia fantasy, using the L-word. Jonathan Alter: "We know why politicians lie when they get in trouble . . . The Tuzla Tale tells us something about her insecurities and frustrations, which in turn helps explain why she's losing."

Frank Rich: "Most politicians lie . . . Why would so smart a candidate play political Russian roulette with virtually all the bullet chambers loaded?"

But Obama has been caught peddling his own myth about the Kennedys and his father. I wonder if he'll come under media sniper fire for that.

Peggy Noonan joins the fray, saying, like the male columnists, that Hillary's Bosnia tale is evidence of a deeper character flaw:

"This is the point where, with Hillary Clinton, either you get it or you don't. There's no dodging now. You either understand the problem with her candidacy, or you don't. You either understand who she is, or not. And if you don't, after 16 years of watching Clintonian dramas, you probably never will.

"That's what the Bosnia story was about. Her fictions about dodging bullets on the tarmac -- and we have to hope they were lies, because if they weren't, if she thought what she was saying was true, we are in worse trouble than we thought -- either confirmed what you already knew (she lies as a matter of strategy, or, as William Safire said in 1996, by nature) or revealed in an unforgettable way (videotape! Smiling girl in pigtails offering flowers!) what you feared (that she lies more than is humanly usual, even politically usual) . . .

"Many in the press get it, to their dismay, and it makes them uncomfortable, for it sours life to have a person whose character you feel you cannot admire play such a large daily role in your work. But I think it's fair to say of the establishment media at this point that it is well populated by people who feel such a lack of faith in Mrs. Clinton's words and ways that it amounts to an aversion. They are offended by how she and her staff operate. They try hard to be fair. They constantly have to police themselves . . .

"You'd think she'd pivot back to showing a likable side, chatting with women, weeping, wearing the bright yellows and reds that are thought to appeal to her core following, older women. Well, she's doing that. Yet at the same time, her campaign reveals new levels of thuggishness, though that's the wrong word, for thugs are often effective. This is mere heavy-handedness."

The Boston Globe profiles Obama's mother-in-law, without whom Barack says he probably couldn't have run for president.