Now she’s getting nasty: Hillary is lashing out against America’s Funnyman, “Sinbad,” which is basically political suicide. Do you know how many presidents were elected after criticizing Sinbad? Zero, that’s how many.

Long ago, in 1996, Hillary Clinton and her elite team of Justice League superheroes — Chelsea, Sheryl Crow, and America’s Funnyman, Sinbad — had to fly to Bosnia to save the Troops from Sniper Fire. Hillary’s campaign has used this story as proof of her Global Experience with wars and troops.

But then Sinbad spoke the Truth about how they really just flew there in an airplane, to do a fun “meet and greet” with American troops stationed there as peacekeepers at the time, and nobody was ever in any danger of any kind.

Today — on St. Patrick’s Day, of all days — Hillary dismissed Sinbad’s version of the story.

“He’s a comedian, you know,” she said.

What does that even mean? Are comedians somehow less trustworthy than, say, white people?

Clinton on Sinbad: ‘He’s a comedian, you know’ [Politico/Ben Smith]

So this one time Hillary Clinton said she went to Bosnia and was almost murdered by snipers in the terrible war zone, and the only people there to protect her were her daughter and Sheryl Crow and a comedian named Sinbad who has spent the last forty years doing standup at large corporate events. But now Sinbad is STRIKING BACK against Hillary Clinton’s horrible lies and exaggerations, and he is doing it for our country (Barack Obama). MORE »

The story about Hillary Clinton’s harrowing 1996 trip to Bosnia with esteemed international dignitaries Chelsea Clinton, Sinbad and Sheryl Crow pops up occasionally in the news. To the untrained reader, that trip might seem like the sort of diplomacy-lite errand that First Ladies occasionally run for their husbands. But for Hillary Clinton, that experience makes her tested and ready to serve on Day One. And now another Obama advisor is cheating by bringing up this visit, again, with the press. MORE »