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Wash. Post's Milbank distorted Clinton quote, while claiming "[i]t was very nearly a case of Too Much Information"

December 19, 2007 3:33 pm ET

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SUMMARY: Describing it as "nearly a case of Too Much Information," Dana Milbank wrote that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton "divulged some startling news: She was dispatching across Iowa 'people who have known me, who can talk about what I do when the lights are off.' As luck would have it, Bill Clinton was campaigning with his wife in the Hy-Vee, and he was asked what he and the senator do in their, um, downtime." But Milbank left off the rest of Clinton's sentence, which makes clear that she was not insinuating what Milbank suggested.

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