Thursday, October 18, 2012

I Trust This Guy Somehow

Robert Knight on the darned fact-checking about Benghazi:
On Oct. 12, the Washington Post’s lead editorial advised everyone to “Forget the ‘coverup’” and called Republican claims “overblown.” The Obama administration had fallen victim to “confused assessments and even more confused rhetoric.”

But the colossal prevarications make the Watergate scandal look like petty politics. Americans don’t like being lied to about matters of life and death. We can forgive a lot, apparently, if the lies are merely sordid. After all, Bill Clinton got re-elected even though nobody mistook him for George Washington. It helped that he had a Republican Congress that reformed welfare and held down spending. And it helped that Mr. Clinton seemed a likeable lug. He has a way of winking at you without winking.


Well, he says they've never done this before. But seeing as it's special circumstances and all, he says I can have that Trucoat for a hundred dollars off .

5 comments:

tigris said...

But the colossal prevarications make the Watergate scandal look like petty politics.

You just keep telling yourself that, cupcake.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

The funny thing about it is that they're not really clear on what needed to be covered up. It's all semantic wankery to me.

M. Bouffant said...

Colossal!!

And yeah, Clinton was a stealth winker, not like Palin.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Discussion of same at MMfA (but link to Sadly, No!, just because I can).
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mikey said...

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out what they're getting so worked up about.

Actually, I'm not. I lost interest, like, two weeks ago. Mali is a lot more interesting, truth be told...