HUGH HEWITT: “An interesting juxtaposition: Scot Peterson’s lie to Amber Frey about being in Paris, and John Kerry’s lies to the Senate about being in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968. Peterson’s lie has practically guaranteed his conviction as whatever small bit of credibility he possessed is now destroyed. John Kerry, on the other hand, got a pass this morning from the Washington Post and the New York Times even though his campaign yesterday recanted a central detail of Kerry’s Vietnam narrative that he has been peddling for three decades.”

Go figure.

UPDATE: Sardonic Views: “All I could think of was Tim Johnson, the former manager of the Toronto Blue Jays who lost his job in ’99 after it was revealed that all of his war stories (that he used mainly to motivate players) were complete lies. Johnson was a Marine Corps reservist.”

I’m not sure that analogy — or the Joseph Ellis one — quite fits. On the other hand, neither of them was running for President.

ANOTHER UPDATE: No, sorry, this isn’t quite right either.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Nope. I’ve already ruled that one out.