Ack! That’s just nonsense. We knew Clinton was lying not because he gave us any clues but because he was such a huge frick’n liar we knew he had to be lying. Not even Dowd believed at the time that Bill wanted people to know he was just winking when he said that about “that woman.” Sure, his legalistic lying was easy to read, but that hardly means he didn’t think he was getting away with it. But there were sooo many other lies that weren’t legalistic or winking at all. From his lies about not knowing about genocide in Rwanda to his lies about the fictitious Church burnings of his youth Clinton rarely winked or provided “semantic clues.” He just lied like other people breath. This is all further proof Maureen Dowd cannot be taken seriously.