Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.