The same media that endlessly gives Obama’s lies a pass is savaging Williams. It’s therefore reasonable to believe that at least part of the media’s willingness to turn on one of its own comes about because so-called journalists don’t want Americans to look too closely at Obama’s lies. It’s a form of misdirection. If they go after Williams, they can say to Americans “See, we take lies seriously. The fact that we haven’t attacked Obama’s lies means that they aren’t serious.”
In fact, the opposite is true. Obama’s lies are infinitely more serious than any Paul Bunyan-esque tales Williams told. Williams’ lies are designed purely for self-aggrandizement and career advancement. Nothing he said changed American policy. Instead, all were intended to make an armchair weeny look like a mighty stud.
Obama’s lies, however, were out and out frauds. He knew they were lies when he told them, and he told them for the explicit purpose of making people change their behavior in reliance on his lies — and, moreover, to change them in ways that were damaging to the people he defrauded. They were exactly the type of lies that the Ninth Commandment is meant to prevent insofar as they destroy important societal institutions.