There’s an old joke that says, “George Washington never told a lie, Bill Clinton never told the truth, and most members of Congress can’t tell the difference.”
So the news that legendary major league baseball pitcher Roger Clemens has been indicted for lying to Congress struck us as rather odd, because we would have expected Congress to embrace a liar as one of their own. But in Clemens’ case, they didn’t.
ESPN reports on this historic development:
Roger Clemens was vehement: “Let me be clear. I have never taken steroids or HGH,” he told a House committee in 2008. Now, instead of the Hall of Fame, baseball’s seven-time Cy Young winner could go to prison after being indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for allegedly lying to Congress.
The case writes a new chapter in one of baseball’s worst scandals, the rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs in the 1990s and early 2000s, and leaves Clemens’ legacy in jeopardy.
The six-count indictment alleges that Clemens obstructed a congressional inquiry with 15 different statements made under oath, including denials that he had ever used steroids or human growth hormone. The New York Times first reported the indictment.
If life were fair, Clemens would be judged by a jury of his peers – the lying, sanctimonious sacks of excrement in congress – and they’d give him a trophy instead of a jail term.
Source: ESPN
