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September 15, 2007
"Suspension of Disbelief": What Did Hillary Mean, Exactly?
In a post at Right Wing Nuthouse Rick Moran misquotes, I believe, Hillary Clinton during her questioning of General Petraeus. Rick says (emphases mine):
There is very little disagreement that Moveon’s smear job against General Petraeus actually turned the tide and put the anti-war Democrats on the defensive while rallying and energizing the GOP base to support the General’s plan for Iraq. And Giuliani, seeing the opportunity to exploit that stupidity, emerged by week’s end as the General’s most visible champion by buying his own ad in the Times savaging both Moveon and Hillary Clinton, whose statement that in order to believe the General you would have to “suspend belief” seemed to dovetail with the anti-war group’s message.
But everywhere else I've seen Hillary quoted as mentioning the "the willing suspension of disbelief". Indeed, further down Rick's post he quotes Hillary using "disbelief". But I think Rick's first (erroneous) quotation was probably what Hillary meant to say: if one suspends disbelief, doesn't that leave only the opposite option, that is, to believe? I think he just reworded it subconsciously to read correctly.
The first time I read the "suspension of disbelief" line it sounded like a double negative, but no one else has commented on it.
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Comments
Hillary must be taking speech lessons from GWB.
Posted by: Chris at September 17, 2007 02:13 PM
God forbid.
Posted by: Jeff at September 18, 2007 09:28 AM
Double-speak from Clinton? Never!
Posted by: TheBad at November 5, 2007 10:14 AM
