Ms. Hillary

A writer for Rolling Stone declares, "Hillary is a habitual teller of tall tales."

Well sure, you think, RS is well known to be extremely right-wing. Margaret Carlson, another well-known member of the VRWC, writes, "A few more tall tales and voters may be less worried about Clinton's capacity to be commander-in-chief than her ability to tell the truth."

But Dick Morris, who used to work for her husband, provides this "list of lies".

And Michelle Malkin deserves extra credit for recalling George Costanza's line, "It's not a lie if you believe it" and labeling this behavior "Better living through self delusion." (Jonathan Alter of Newsweek agrees: "Over time, the movies that politicians create in their heads become real to them.")

I think something slightly different: I think that Hillary thinks if something could be true and should be true, then it's fine to talk as if it actually were true.

Speaking as a Nobel Prize-winner in economics, I have no problem with that.
 

Comments

[kyle N]

I think the term they are groping for is Congenital Liar.

[Allencic]

I read the perfect summary of Hillary's lies the other day. Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire!

[John B. Chilton]

She has the God delusion. As in She is.

[JorgXMcKie]

Self-deception is the best and most useful deception for a couple of reasons: 1) without it a good many people would never get out of bed, and; 2) it is fundamental to all the other forms of deception that we practice on others.

[William Sjostrom]

I think you are missing the point about Rolling Stone. It is attacking Hillary because she is not left wing enough, or more precisely, because she is not as left wing as Obama. This is purging all but the true believers.