Liberals Rewrite the History of the Clinton Impeachment
By David Harsanyi
December 19, 2019 4:08 PM
The partisanship didn’t start with Trump.
Yesterday on MSNBC, Chris Hayes, repeating a talking point I’ve heard dozens of times during impeachment theater, argued that the “striking†difference between the Clinton and Trump impeachments was not only the willingness of Clinton to “show contrition,†but the willingness of his supporters to acknowledge that the president had done something wrong.
Boy, it must be nice to live in an alternative reality where your allies are always selfless and chaste and your opponents are perpetually plagued by narrow-mindedness and reactionary partisanship.
In the real world, of course, Bill Clinton, with help from the entire Democratic party, kept earnestly lying to anyone who would listen — the media, the American people, a grand jury — until physical evidence compelled him to admit what he had done. His subsequent “contrition,†as impeachment picked up steam, was a matter of political survival. The notion that Trump engaged in “bribery†is debatable. The notion that Clinton perjured himself is not.
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