Memo to Chelsea Clinton:

If you can’t stand the heat, back away from the oven.

Memo to Chelsea Clinton’s handlers: If you had not anticipated that question, and given Chelsea a scripted response, you are incompetent buffoons.

Chelsea, who aspires to again be First Daughter, was at Butler University recently when student Evan Strange asked whether the Monica Lewinsky scandal had affected her mother’s reputation.

Chelsea was shocked -- shocked that someone would bring up that issue.

“I do not think that is any of your business,” Chelsea told Strange. Other students cheered her response.

Chelsea said it was the first time in visits to 70 campuses that anyone had asked her about Lewinsky.

So: 70 different audiences didn’t have the courage or the curiosity to wonder how Chelsea responded to what had to be a formative period in her life? At least 70 times, Chelsea was not asked what has to be an obvious question? Speaking of dodging bullets ...

Oh, wait, that’s a Hillary Clinton story.

Hillary, who is running — and running, and running, and running — for the Democratic nomination for president, last week claimed to have been shot at, unsuccessfully.

She dramatically described to an audience her harrowing landing at Tuzla Air Base in Bosnia-Herzegovina, during a visit when she was First Lady. “We had to run...” she said.

No, she didn’t. Nobody ran. They walked. They strolled, actually.

Hillary was insinuating the U.S. Secret Service would have allowed the First Lady and the First Daughter to land under sniper fire.

Presented with video evidence, taken from several angles, that the “sniper fire” was nonexistent, Hillary was forced to say she “misspoke.”

Reminds me of a punch line applicable to many jokes: “Whom are you going to believe? Me or your lyin’ eyes?”