Another Lying Democrat---Culture of Deception?

Bill Richardson, liar:

Never get caught out in a lie, my Dad taught. Never get caught out in a draft, my Mom taught. Poor Bill Richardson forgot those parental lessons, and now he has been caught lying about the draft.

Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, has been including in every bio and resume for the last 40 years the fact that as a young pitching prospect, he had been drafted by the Kansas City (now Oakland) Athletics. With his name being bandied as a potential Democratic Presidential candidate, the Albuquerque Journal investigated and found the baseball claim baseless. Confronted, Bill announced that he "came to the conclusion that I was not drafted by the A's."

Nor would anyone presume to doubt his veracity. Readers of this publication will recall that Mr. Richardson, then Ambassador to the United Nations, was accused by Monica Lewinsky of offering her a job without a real interview for the purpose of purging her from Ken Starr's purlieu. Richardson denied, denied and denied, despite phone records showing two calls to his office precisely when Monica said they were made.

Okay, let's be honest. You and I know that Richardson is lying through his teeth now as then. He lied about being drafted like his former boss, Bill Clinton, lied about not being drafted. But if he loses the nomination over this, we may be plunged into an insufferable new era of indiscriminate truth-telling. Folks, truth is turning into an epidemic and we had better watch our backs.