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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Life in Post-Truth America

Next month Americans will experience the fifteenth anniversary of the time that the President of the United States shook his finger at the country and informed it, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never.”

Bill Clinton was lying. But the lie was more significant than the thing that he was lying about.

When the lie came crashing down, Clinton and his defenders deconstructed the English language, questioning the meaning of every word in his sentence rather than admit that the lie was a lie.

Given a choice between telling the truth or challenging the definitions of such words as “sex” and “is”, they decided to burn their dictionary.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bill never in hailed the marijuana either. I am SURE that's the truth. ;)

Anonymous said...

Look if a politicans mouth is moving he is lying works for me....

Anonymous said...

If you were married to Hillary you would have did the same. Stop lying.