Truth, Justice and Lies

As predicted, the Ashley Todd story of the dyslexic mugger with the Obama agenda has imploded. It was a lie fabricated by Ms. Todd herself.

For the partisan record, there was no McCain/Palin agenda at work here either.

Ashley Todd's fate now rests in the hands of lawyers, doctors and courts. There's room to argue that her actions are more the result of mental illness than racial politics.

But I still wonder what it says about the rest of us. Those who embraced it as a truth about race and those who dismissed it as a racist manipulation against truth.

Sometimes a lie is just a lie. Even the ones we tell ourselves.