Brian McNamee Pilloried, Roger Clemens' Lies Go Unnoticed

Anyone watching the Clemens-McNamee congressional hearing was stunned by Indiana Republican Dan Burton’s attack of Brian McNamee, quite reminiscent of Stewie pummeling Lois. 

The most replayed excerpt of the bombardment was undoubtedly, "Lie after lie after lie after lie!"

It seems like everyone is forgetting that the accusations of dishonesty hurled at McNamee trace back to inconsistencies in what he told reporters, and not information to which he testified under oath.  

Furthermore, the ways in which he lied (as documented in newspaper and web-based articles) were quite natural.  Basically McNamee failed to reveal entire truths in an understandable attempt to curtail future trouble for him and for other players.

But Roger Clemens lied under oath.  Fortunately for him, no one seems to care.

Throughout the hearing, various government officials stressed the importance of telling the truth while under oath, and the consequence of failing to do so—a federal charge of perjury.

Well they forgot to enforce that rule in the Rocket's case, I guess.  

Also, I’m shocked that the following statements aren't garnering any attention from the sports media.

Apparently during Clemens’ individual deposition (at which he swore to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth) he stated that he'd never, in his entire life, spoken to Brian McNamee about HGH.  On Wednesday morning (again under oath) however, he changed his mind.  

Clemens said that he called McNamee when his wife began complaining of circulation problems following her secret HGH injection courtesy of the former trainer.  Clemens even admitted that this conversation was a very detailed discussion of HGH (or something of that nature).

The man questioning Clemens during these revelations noticed the inconsistency in Roger's story, but failed to pursue it further.

Does anyone else see the issue here?  The Rocket is guilty of committing perjury, and nobody cares.

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