Lies and More Lies

            Interesting coincidence.  The day I received my June issue of National Geographic in the mail was the same day Hillary Clinton delivered her commencement address at Wellesley College, her alma mater.  Why interesting?  Because the cover story in National Geographic was “Why We Lie,” while the theme of Hillary’s speech, as summarized by the Boston Globe, was “Clinton urges graduates to fight for truth.”  What brazenness: a speech about truth by the greatest pathological liar of our time.

            Hillary couldn’t help herself.  She wanted to disparage President Trump so badly—describing his budget, for instance, as “an act of unimaginable cruelty on the most vulnerable among us”—that she drew a parallel between him and President Nixon.  But she got it wrong by describing Nixon as “a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment.”  Except that Nixon was never impeached; the only president impeached since Andrew Johnson was her own husband!

            I love National Geographic. It’s a great magazine. But its writers are far too susceptible to Leftist propaganda, especially on environmental issues.  In this same June issue, it offers that sea levels will rise by 22 to 30 inches by 2100 according to some projections, a totally irresponsible claim ignoring scientific evidence to the contrary.

            On the subject of lying, National Geographic lists some of history’s most notorious liars.  Among them are Lance Armstrong (“I have never doped.”), Rosie Ruiz (“I ran the race. I really did.”), and Charles Ponzi.  When it comes to presidential politics, however, it gives us only Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, and Bill Clinton (!), but not Barack Obama (“If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”), and not Hillary, the most prolific liar of them all.  So much for the magazine’s balance and objectivity.