The lead editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal explores another ugly facet of the Obama administration, namely its penchant for dishonesty. The case in point is the use of the names of a number of drilling experts who the White House claimed were in support of its drilling moratorium. In fact, they were not asked about the wisdom of such a moratorium and have said forthrightly that they oppose it. Using their names was flagrantly dishonest.
Oh, but what’s a little thing like intellectual honesty when you have ideas that will save the world?
The White House propaganda team is going to have to work overtime to figure out how to wiggle out of this. Americans have some tolerance for bungling, but not much at all for lying.
