Thursday, June 13, 2013

Does ABC News Support Perjury? It's Complicated.

Actually, it's not complicated: Unless someone has hijacked their website temporarily, yes, ABC News supports perjury (when the government does it, providing that they support who's in charge of the government {which they obviously do now, since they have made themselves apologists for perjury and obstruction of justice during a Congressional inquiry, which quite seriously undermines their credibility as a trustworthy news agency.}).

But I suppose they could claim "it depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is".

But when journalists not only don't demand the truth, but try to explain why perjury is acceptable, we're living in surreal times indeed.

Here's the apologist piece:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intel-dir-james-clapper-lie-congress-complicated/story?id=19390786#.Ubon3uBu8Rk

And here's Bill Clinton's infamous quote (I like President Clinton, but this was a shameful display of lawyerly splitting of hairs, which we could use less of in Washington, please.):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0