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09.11.2007
A Badly-Needed Reality Check

The Iowa waitress speaks again

“You people are really nuts,” she told a reporter during a phone interview. “There’s kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now — there’s better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn’t get a tip.”

I was going to do an item on an NPR follow-up story this morning that clarified some things and muddied others. But maybe it's best to make this the last word for now.

--Michael Crowley 

Posted: Friday, November 09, 2007 10:03 AM with 1 comment(s)

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The Stump said:

Okay, I said I’d give that wise Iowa waitress the last word on the Hillary diner tip affair, but before

November 9, 2007 5:36 PM