Selective Memory

Unknown lefty Steve Cobble wrote the most inane post this week over at the Puff Ho (a truly awesome feat at that). He's trying to link Rove to...well, I'm not sure. I think it's something to do with lying while under oath or something:

Lil' Kim Sets Precedent for Big Karl?

Or Big Bob Novak. Or maybe, as Arianna suggested yesterday, it'll turn out to be Big John Bolton.The point is, the safety of the homeland was secured yesterday when Lil' Kim (a female rapper for those of you who are as culturally bypassed as I am) began her one-year-and-one-day prison sentence.

Her crime -- lying to a federal grand jury.

She was trying to protect her friends (involved in a 2001 shooting incident).

Do you suppose this one-year-and-one-day sentence will become the minimum standard for those caught lying to federal grand juries?Uh-oh.

What might this do to the $60B Katrina reconstruction effort, now headed by noted disaster man and long-time advocate for the poor, Karl Rove?

Let's see, who may Mr. Cobble have left out when discussing lying under oath? Hmm, I really can't think of anyone of importance. Well, maybe this guy:

On January 17, President Clinton was deposed in the Jones lawsuit. He denied having "sexual relations" with Ms. Lewinsky under a definition provided to him in writing by her lawyers, and also said that he could not recall whether he was ever alone with her. On January 21, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and ABC News reported that Starr had expanded his investigation of the President to include the allegations related to Lewinsky. After repeated media inquiries, on January 26 President Clinton asserted in an appearance before the White House press corps: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," and denied urging her to lie about an affair.

The President's attorneys failed in efforts to block Starr's expansion of his investigation, which also included whether the President himself had lied under oath in his own deposition taken in the Paula Jones litigation. In July 1998, after being granted sweeping immunity from prosecution by Special Prosecutor Starr, Ms. Lewinsky admitted that she in fact had had a sexual relationship with the President that did not include intercourse, but denied that she had ever been asked to lie about the relationship by the President or by those close to him.

By the way Mr. Cobble, you idiot, the cornerstone of our entire system of law is ensuring that people don't lie while on the stand.