June 18, 2011

The Honor of Leftists and Conservatives

By Bruce Walker
The political news is filled with three personal scandal stories: Anthony Weiner is resigning because of his lying; John Edwards has been indicted, basically for lying; and the jury is still out (literally) in the trial of Rod Blagojevich for lying.  Can anyone connect the dots of the broader political story?  Here are some more hints: name the American president who -- see the video -- looked angrily into the camera and said: "I want you to listen to me.  I'm not going to say this again.  I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.  I never told anyone to lie, not a single time, never."  Another president -- see the video -- says his father served in the Second World War (although he was a seven-year-old boy in Kenya at the time). A certain vice president invents a story about his wife being killed by a drunk driver, as Thomas Lifson has pointed out here and claims as his own brilliant rhetoric a speech written by British politician Neil...(Read Full Article)