Couldn't Resist

Over at the American Spectator, George Neumayr pens a great column with the subtitle "The Farce that is American Public Life."   His topic is the accusations of sexual harassment and worse against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain and the elite media's, along with much of liberal punditry's disgusting reaction to them.  Be warned, candidate Cain himself comes in for some deserved criticism as well.

Anyway, what got my attention and prompted this blog was the sentence with which he begins a paragraph to highlight the double standard that is the media's treatment of Cain when compared to their treatment of former president Bill Clinton.  He writes:

If Cain is lying, he is an uncannily confident liar, a feat to rival Clinton's.

To my mind, of tremendous significance in that sentence is the inclusion of the word "if".  To this point, as his steady poll numbers seem to indicate, there remains out there many who are still prepared to give Cain the benefit of the doubt.

What was unique about Clinton was that from the very beginning, no one, and I do mean no one, ever believed much of anything he, or his wife, ever said.  After all, "Slick Willie" was the nickname he earned from his Arkansas days and "congenital liars" is what the late William Safire called them both once they became national figures.  And yet, not many, certainly not enough, seemed to care

So, if I may, and with apologies to the late Senator Lloyd Bensten of Texas, I know Bill Clinton, and Herman Cain is no Bill Clinton.

Sorry, but, as I said, I couldn't resist.