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Television has gone wild over Bill Clinton's botched attempt to defend his wife over the Bosnia fairy tale. It helps if you get the facts straight, rather than saying she told this story once, late at night, and immediately apologized.

Jake Tapper enumerates the inaccuracies:

"--Her most glaringly wrong telling of the tale, on March 17, 2008, was in the morning.

"--She actually told versions of the story several times. (And none was at night.) . . .

"--It wasn't immediate at all -- it was 11 days later, first in an editorial board meeting with the Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia Daily News, then later in a press availability.

"--She never apologized.

"--It was 1996, not 1995.

"--He qualified it with 'I think,' but then-first lady Pat Nixon went to a combat zone in Saigon, Vietnam, in July 1969."

Dick Polman scolds the ex-president:

"Memo to Bill, who is imperiling his reputation as the smartest pol of his generation: When your wife is caught lying on camera, just leave it alone. Bringing it up again, and seeking to rationalize it, is the ultimate in silliness."

Marc Ambinder says Obama sometimes goes too far:

"No one in the race has more foreign policy experience than Barack Obama.

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