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gigot. first up this week, the politics of lying. lots of politicians do it. when is a lie so over the line it should disqualify the teller from holding office? linda mcmahon in connecticut released a new ad this week that raises that question. mcmahon is running against that state's attorney general richard blumenthal outed by "the new york times" this spring for lying about serving in vietnam. take a look. >> announcer: would you lie about serving in a war? >> we have learned something very important since the days i served in vietnam. >> announcer: blumenthal did it again and agai...

>> paul: joining us adan henninger. dorothy rabinowitz and james toronto. dorothy, all politicians lie or at last their opponents accuse them of lying. is this ad fair? >> you mean fair means truthful? is it kind? no. it is a really perfect example, he's a perfect expression of political lying at its worst. it reveals character in a very fundamental way. you cannot say as often as he does in that ad, in vietnam, when we came back. can anybody be so absent minded he's forgotten the details of his military career? such as he did not serve in the war. what really happened, this is an exposure aft...