Will Bunch’s much-remarked-upon write-up of Hillary’s latest version of her ducking-from-snipers story seems awfully gentle to me:

The Clinton campaign is clearly eager to put this controversy to rest before it drags down her Pennsylvania campaign. As the session broke up, campaign press secretary Jay Carson made a beeline to me to offer additional background, explaining that the senator didn’t want to completely blow off the ceremony but that she was also in a hurry to get indoors. Within about 20 minutes, Carson emailed me press acconts from the time of the 1996 visit, including one from the Washington Post that said her trip was “the first time since [Eleanor] Roosevelt that a first lady has voyaged to a potential combat zone.”

This from a newspaper that once headlined a mob assassination outside a local diner: “A Side Order of Lead,” headlined the results of the 2006 congressional elections “Hee-Haw!” over a picture of a donkey and a dour-faced George W. Bush, headlined the death of Steve Irwin “It’s No Croc” and that once reported a vehicle theft thusly: Will the scum who stole the 11-year-old child’s wheelchair-accessible van please return it?

So “eager to put this controversy to rest” seems a little mild, given the publication. Was there nobody to ask: “How is it that you confuse ducking your head to avoid gunfire while walking, with your daughter, through a war zone with not ducking your head to avoid gunfire while walking, with your daughter, through a war zone? Ducking one’s head to avoid sniper fire would certainly be memorable, even for Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been through so much.