Although I was wrong about the Tuzla dealio and sincerely thought it was not going to turn into a big issue - I honestly think this 'Mucking Out The Barn' is just an absurd level of piling on.  MSNBC is so ridiculous.

From The Hotline:
Manure Matter

"Hillary Clinton told a story yesterday on the campaign trail -- without attribution -- that turned out to be a Ronald Reagan original. Sigh. NBC/NJ's Athena Jones reports that her tale went like this:

"He (Rendell) reminds me of the story about that little boy -- you ever hear this story where, you know, a man walks by the barn. He sees this little boy in this room filled with manure and he's standing there and he's diggin' and he's diggin' and he's diggin' and the man says 'Son, what are you doing? You're up to your hips in manure with that little shovel' And the boy said 'Well, with this much manure around, there's gotta be a pony, and I'm gonna find him!'"

MSNBC, perhaps not surprisingly, has been running the clip this a.m. of Reagan telling the same story. We're looking for the clip.

In the meantime, readers, big deal? No deal? This latest hullaballoo turns on a parable -- unlike the botched Bosnia story, which Clinton exaggerated unnecessarily to inflate her foreign policy credentials. Or so it seemed. She said she misspoke and that she was tired.

I'm not as moved by the manure flap. Sure, some would say it's further proof of Clinton's lack of authenticity, her willingness to poach ideas or stories and claim them as her own. Thoughts?"

From Jennifer Skalka at The Hotline