I think Hillary Clinton is trying a little too hard to convince voters of how experienced she is in dealing with potential world crises. At a recent press conference, in an attempt to demonstrate that she was right on the “front lines” when the world has been at war — as if anyone would believe that, anyway — she told the story of landing in Bosnia amid sniper fire and being rushed to safety.

She was referring to a visit to Tuzla in 1996, when she was First Lady. Though the war there was over, hostilities remained.

“There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

That’s how she described the scene.

Apparently, Hillary Clinton momentarily suffered from the same problem that hit Mike Huckabee when he was speaking about his comments on the AIDS crisis: she forgot that this happens to be the Information Age.

Let’s think about this for a second. The First Lady of the United States lands in a war-torn country, and has to dodge bullets as she is rushed to safety.

Does anyone really believe that this wouldn’t have been the top story for the week? We’d have seen images from this nightmarish scene plastered across every newscast since Clinton announced her candidacy. Rather than asking who you’d want answering some silly phone at 3:00am, she’d have replayed this video to demonstrate that she can indeed hit the ground running. Literally.

Even if no cameras were around, the scene would have been so well-described as to insure that no one forgot it. I’m sure that there wasn’t a national correspondent among the “lazy press corps” those liberal bloggers keep talking about who wasn’t scratching his head to remember the details of this story. And likely, he was also wondering why he wasn’t there covering such an exciting, visual event. And surely that “liberal media” that the conservative bloggers keep complaining about would easily remember such a harrowing experience for their First Lady.

One particular correspondent, CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson, didn’t have to wonder for long. She was there, it turns out. And her memory was somewhat different.

And unfortunately for Hillary Clinton, Attkisson’s memory was corroborated by videotape.

Clinton said:

“There was no greeting ceremony and we were basically told to run to our cars. That is what happened.”

But it isn’t. Video shows that there clearly was the greeting ceremony. Hillary is shown speaking to a little girl, with Chelsea also in attendance, and no sniper fire to be found. If it wasn’t enough that the First Lady would have to flee from gunfire, doesn’t she think we’d have remembered if young Chelsea had been in harm’s way?  Can’t she imagine that those annoying Republicans questioning her judgment as a mother for bringing her daughter into such an obviously-dangerous setting?

Even worse, the video depicts Hillary singing along at a USO show that featured Sinbad and Sheryl Crowe. Big smiles.

As if the embarrassment of being “busted” wasn’t bad enough, a Clinton aide then made matters worse by attempting to come to her rescue with an explanation: “She meant that there was fire on the hillside around the area when we landed, which was the case.” Trouble is, that ain’t what she said.

When a candidate reaches a point of blatantly making things up just to point out how much experience she has, when is it fair to question why she’s that desperate to make the point?