Originally Posted By: the G-man
The Washington Post: Further Debunking the 'War Zone' Myth

  • The Clinton campaign has cited newspaper accounts, including one in The Washington Post, to bolster the senator's claim that her now-famous March 1996 trip to Bosnia was the first visit to a "war zone" by a first lady since World War II. She is overlooking a trip to Saigon by Pat Nixon at the height of the Vietnam War as well as a trip by Barbara Bush to Saudi Arabia two months before the Persian Gulf War began.


As the WP points out in it's fact check, they also overlooked those examples themselves. Apparently their main point is that they can't be relied upon as a source for accuracy?

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Just because something has appeared in a newspaper does not mean that is entirely accurate. The Clinton camp has circulated a March 26, 1996, quote from a Post article describing Clinton's Bosnia trip as "the first time since Roosevelt that a first lady has voyaged to a potential combat zone." The article went on to say that "other first ladies have visited troops abroad but never in front-line positions," citing the examples of Bush and Nixon.


No Pinochio's were self inflicted on the WP of course
;\)

Fair play!