Mark Shields was doing his regular end-of-show commentary gig on the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer last Friday ... along with David Brooks. They were opining on the Herman Cain sexual assault innuendo scandal ... and comparing it with Bill Clinton's similar travails before the 1994 elections. Mark Shields then actually said that, back then, Clinton "was smart enough to lie" about his peccadilloes with Monika Lewinsky. David Brooks did not blanch. Jim Lehrer, in disbelief, did not ask for Shields to repeat himself. This was all on a nationally televised, presumably well-respected, news program (partially paid for by U.S. taxpayers.)
I guess this vignette, as much as anything, typifies the degree of moral degeneration to which this country has sunk. What comes next ... Caligula?
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