Hillary Clinton's conversation with Andrea Mitchell at Nancy Reagan's memorial...

[Old Crow]

7. Bizarre revisionist history. And most definitely NOT an instance of "misspeaking."

She introduced the subject and tells a story that is integrated and cohesive--about how "difficult" it was for many people to talk about HIV in the 1980s and how the Reagans courageously advocated for the disease--and is entirely false. You cannot tell the paragraph-long story she tells without making a conscious effort to lie. This is not mistaking one disease for another or using a wrong word or phrase. It's lying, pure and simple.

I was in my late teens when the AIDS crisis broke. I remember how the Reagans either said nothing or exhibited a dismissive, even contemptious, attitude toward those who suffered. It is impossible for me to believe that anyone who was alive during that time and was even halfway interested in politics could accidentally tell the absurd story Hillary Clinton told.