Anyone with the slightest appreciation of irony would surely have appreciated a recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal. It snottily reminded readers of Bill and Hillary Clinton's ruthless streak - the latest case in point was the former president's unfair and somewhat bizarre attacks on Barack Obama in January - and the Clintons' willingness to stretch, and snap, the truth in pursuit of their goals.
The irony, of course, is in the Journal's editorial writers' own practices. Respect for truth ...