A Hero Amongst the Liars

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Washington
Over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal Brian Lamb, the founder of C-Span, tendered a Solomonic statement in his valedictory interview after some 40 years before the television cameras. Said Lamb, “Lying is the word that I would use to describe this town.” And he went on, “I don’t know if it will ever stop. It’s gotten worse rather then getting better, and both sides do it. You’ve got to listen very carefully to what they’re saying.” By “they” he meant politicians, journalists, and practically anyone listening to them. He referred to the politically alive as, shall we say, the political class.
For forty years Lamb has been interviewing the political class, and for forty years he has sat through their endless lies. Some of those lies were simply B.S., the kind of B.S. one expects from people who make their way in the world not by candor but by exaggeration or understatement to the point of inaccuracy, or other revisions of reality. One thinks of Bill Clinton. Other lies are more serious. One thinks of Bill Clinton again. Actually, when Lamb says “It’s gotten worse rather than getting better,” Bill is not the only one that comes to mind. There is also Hillary whose lies are both unserious and serious, and an entire city of liars. As Lamb says, it is not getting better. It has gotten worse.
With the release of the Mueller report we were led to think that we would either be at the end of all this talk about Russian collusion or at least we would have revealed to us exactly what the evidence of collusion has been. Well, on Friday the Good Times, as opposed to the New York Times, headlined the report’s findings succinctly. Quoth the Times: “NO CONSPIRACY, NO COLLUSION.” Washington promptly erupted, and it erupted with lies. Frankly, the report’s revelations looked very clear to me. Those of us who have been awaiting the damaging evidence of collusion without ever getting it were proven right. We could now move on with the governing of the country.
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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief ofThe American Spectator. He is the author of How Do We Get Out of Here: Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at the American Spectator from Bobby Kennedy to Donald J. Trump. He is also the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc; New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: The Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery. He makes frequent appearances on national television and is a nationally syndicated columnist, whose articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, National Review, Harper’s, Commentary, The (London) Spectator, Le Figaro (Paris), and elsewhere. He is also a contributing editor to the New York Sun.
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