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Pedantry

Hillary Clinton tries her hand at hyperbole:

“I say a lot of things—millions of words a day—so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement,” Clinton said.

Millions of words would explain why her stump speech lasted forever. Meanwhile, I am trying to resist interpreting as symbolic the fact that Clinton exaggerates in order to excuse her own exaggeration, but it is a difficult struggle.

Update: JIC you haven’t seen the context: