Instapundit says, regarding the demonstration from the record that Bill Clinton was — surprise! — lying when he wagged the Famed Finger of Falsehood and claimed he had tried to knock off (the now dead, thank God) Osama bin Ladin, “This won’t help Hillary.”
Well, literally true: It won’t make the slightest difference! Hillary voters are in complete denial about any aspect of blame or responsibility any Clinton could ever have for their actions, or suffer from full-body BDS, or they would not be Hillary voters. “This won’t help her” — in the literal sense that it is not “a plus” — fine. But harm her? It won’t cost her a single vote.
I use Bill Clinton in my work all the time. My work as a lawyer is in the field of litigation, and I frequently have to help witnesses prepare for their depositions. As part of that preparation, I always tell them this, more or less verbatim:
Don’t even try lying. Who was the best liar in our lifetimes — the world champ? Right, Bill Clinton. He was the greatest. And what happened to him? He got caught, hung up. Almost no one is a good enough liar to keep it going, so if your conscience doesn’t prevent you from lying under oath, at least learn the lesson of Bill Clinton. Just tell the truth.
UPDATE: Looks like there are other ways besides lying to frustrate a lawyer taking your deposition, anyway. Or at least there were.
LATE UPDATE: Heh.
