Walking side by side and smiling, are Hillary Rodham Clinton and Richard Mellon Scaife.

I folded myself into the copy for my next story, fearing the apocalypse was upon us.

What a most curious day.

“I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.”

Geez, Allah willing, she wouldn’t be groggy answering the White House telephone at 3 a.m.

You just can’t make this stuff up (although, apparently, Clintons do).

The CBS Evening News story broadcast last night proves once and for all that Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton indeed continues to suffer from Partzheimer’s (a.k.a., Convenient Memory-Loss Syndrome) as first highlighted in a Bob McCarty Writes post one year ago this month and reiterated in posts March 27, 2007 and Sept. 12, 2007.

Now the question is “Why did it take CBS, the New York Times and others in the mainstream media so long to report on the former first lady’s affliction?”

For nearly 20 years, she has been encased in the apparatus of political celebrity. Look at her schedule as first lady and ever since. Think of the thousands of staged events, the tens of thousands of times she has pretended to be delighted to see someone she doesn’t know, the hundreds of thousands times she has recited empty clichés and exhortatory banalities, the millions of photos she has posed for in which she is supposed to appear empathetic or tough, the billions of politically opportune half-truths that have bounced around her head.

No wonder the Clinton campaign feels impersonal. It’s like a machine for the production of politics. It plows ahead from event to event following its own iron logic.

Bill Clinton’s retelling (attempting to justify) to Chris Wallace of how and why he didn’t “git” bin laden is a perfect example of him employing the prevaricating spin.

This is who they are, both of them.

The Clintons continue to use this device (words to spin an event to make them look smart or courageous or something) because they’ve gotten away with it in “the press” for a very long time.

Luckily, in the Bosnia example, the news camera caught the truth.

Anyway, I guess this is CBS’s official endorsement of Barack Obama. Sorry, but I can’t see them doing this if Hillary had already won the nomination and McCain was her opponent.