They say "honesty is the best policy" but apparently Democratic presidential candidate frontrunner Hilary Clinton didn’t get that memo either. Nevertheless, comedian Stephen Colbert tried passing along the message to her this past Friday on The Late Show when he joked, “lying should be the easiest part of campaigning,” reacting to the cringe-worthy, face-palm inducing statement the former secretary of state made to interviewer Scott Pelley of CBS:
Well, but, you know, you're asking me to say, "Have I ever?" I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever will. I'm going do the best I can to level with the American people.
That response in and of itself is a lie, and I’m sure her campaign staff probably looked on in absolute horror as those lies so effortlessly rolled off her tongue.
Even Clinton herself seemed to realize mid-sentence that she had just made a huge mistake.
Leave it to Colbert to show concern for the Democratic candidate. After joking with his audience that something "potentially damaging to Hillary Clinton‘s campaign” has just emerged… and it’s Hillary Clinton," the CBS late-night comic showed them the clip, then feigned outrageous disbelief:
How can you be this bad at it?! Just say no! You’re running for President of the United States!
He continued dramatically, "Even Richard Nixon knew enough to say 'I am not a crook,' he didn’t say ‘it has always been my intention as far as I believe, I will do the best I can not to be a crook…'"
“Will you lie is the homerun of campaign questions. You just say no and then touch all the bases,” he added as the audience burst into laughter. Colbert also brought out a young boy with better lying skills than Clinton to underscore his point.
Of course Clinton’s penchant for lying isn’t necessarily news, but what is news is a recent Quinnipiac poll that showed nearly 7-out-of-10 Americans viewed her as untrustworthy and dishonest – making her the most untrustworthy candidate of the 2016 race.
That’s certainly one poll you can trust.
