[This is the fourth post in a series on non-denial denials; see also parts one, two and three.] The most ludicrous but nevertheless most memorable post-Nixon non-denial denial has got to be President Bill Clinton’s finger-waggling statement: I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going […]

[This is the third post in a series on non-denial denials; see also parts one and two.] Non-denial denials should make reporters suspicious. When an official, confronted by a serious charge, denies something different, or uses modifiers, or airily waves off the charge as not worth responding to, that should be an alarm bell. But […]