Boxer false memories and BS detected

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

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Boxer told me:

"I asked her how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question. And since we had lost a lot of Californians, I was concerned. And I said, you and I don't have, we haven't paid a person price, I said, you and I, I said, myself, my grandkids are too young, my husband too old, and as far as I know you don't have anybody in the war. So I tried to use it to bring us together, but the right-wing press said that I questioned, that I turned on her because she wasn't married which was a little silly."

My thanks to Shaky Hands Productions.

Boxer also said: "I was criticizing the fact that she didn't know how many people died in Iraq. Absolutely I was."

There's just one problem. Boxer never asked Rice how many U.S. troops had died in Iraq when she began her "personal price" remarks. In fact, Boxer had not asked Rice a single question. She was engaged in her usual filibustering.

You can watch the exchange on C-SPAN, starting at about 01:42:48.
I can see why Boxer would want to believe that she put her foot in her mouth -- and somehow it was Rice's fault, but the tale turns out to be a figment of Barbara Boxer's self-aggrandizing imagination.

It is hard for my regard for Sen. Boxer to get much lower, but this at least confirms how she earned that status.  The Chronicle also has her making the quoted statement on video at the link above.  I hope California has had enough of her act.