The Big Lie That Barr Lied

(National Review) The attorney generals testimony was clearly accurate. I originally thought this was too stupid to write about. But stupid is like the plague inside the Beltway one person catches it and next thing you know theres an outbreak at MSNBC and the speaker of the House is showing symptoms while her delirious minions tote ceramic chickens around Capitol Hill. So I give you: the Bill Barr perjury allegation. We are all entitled to our own opinions. But are we entitled to our own facts? Daniel Patrick Moynihans bon mot says no but Washington makes you wonder. Like when spleen-venting about the supposedly outrageous unbelievable disgraceful invocation of the word spy" to describe episodes of government spying is instantly followed by a New York Times story about how the spying er I mean court-authorized electronic surveillance coupled with the tasking of spies er undercover agents green-lighted by a foreign spy er intelligence service was more widespread than previously known. If I were a cynic Id think people were trying to get out in front of some embarrassing revelations on the horizon. I might even be tempted to speculate that progressives were trotting out their Destroy Ken Starr" template for Barr deployment (which I suppose means that 20 years from now well be reading about what a straight-arrow Barr was compared to whomever Democrats are savaging at that point).