Haley Barbour dodges the question, and lies while doing it

Posted Jun 28, 2009, 11:22 PM PT by Jed Lewison • First broadcast: Jun 28, 2009

Just for the record, Barbour’s claim to have a policy against talking about other people’s personal foibles is a lies. On September 15, 1998, here’s what he said about Clinton and Lewinsky on Fox’s "Special Report with Brit Hume":

HALEY BARBOUR: And now we have this president who treated Monica Lewinsky in such a way that it makes prostitution look dignified and ennobling. I mean, he made her a sex toy, a sex object. And now what do these women say? That it doesn’t make any difference?

The American people hear that with a voice louder than a bolt of lightning and thunder when these same people never say one word about the way that this young woman was treated, when they’ve spent their whole careers complaining about it when it was the president of a company or a Republican Senator or a possible judge? The public sees through that like nothing you ever saw.