They can deny it, buy I won't buy it.

What do Hermain "I Did Not Have Relations With That...Woman" Cain, Jesse "Keep Throwing More Money At Him" Jackson Jr, Rod "Effin' Golden" Blagojevich, and Jerry "Eewww!" Sandusky have in common? Aside from all having really weird middle names, not much. 3 are politicians, or at least were. 3 were in the news for inappropriate sexual encounters. 2 are black, two are white. But all four? They are all in the same fraternity. No, no, not Phi Sigma Krappa or the like. I'm talking about the fraternity of Deny Everything Because Either I Truly Believe My Innocence Or I Truly Believe The Rest Of The World Will Believe My Bullshit. Not sure if there are any Greek letters that can capture the true meaning of that.

In real estate, it's location, location, location. In politics and the public eye, it's deny, deny, deny. Are these guys really buying what they say? In the case of Cain and Jesse, no, they did it. Cain slept around. And around. Sure you were only friends with that...woman, and paid her rent for 13 years. Sure you didn't know any of the other woman who came out of the woodwork to say what a creep you are. But do you blame him? He had a good role model. Clinton wrote the book on deniability. And Jesse? He's so going down for trying to buy that senate seat. Unless the voters are stupid enough to re-elect him for his name only. Won't matter, the feds have him in their sites.

Now the book is still out on Blago, is he really a crook, or just a dufus? I want to believe a little of both. He honestly believes he did nothing wrong, in a sense that the "right" way was to follow the playbook of all before him who succumbed to the corruption that infects Illinois. But really, come on, only a fool would believe his bullshit.

Which leaves us with Sandusky. He most probably is a very sick man. Sick to commit unspeakable horrors to children, sick to believe in his own innocence, sick to believe he can convince the rest of us that he is innocent himself. But in this age of instant communication, where every word or action by a public figure is instantly available for the world to witness, and out there for eternity as well, you better cover your ass by denying it.

But that's where it got me. Just how dumb do they think the rest of us are? It comes down to one motive: do anything possible to save your own ass. Every time I see one of these lying dogs on TV or in the paper, I want to vomit. And it brings to mind one of the final scenes in Fargo. You know, when the car salesman is caught in that motel room, and he is wailing like a baby because his once proud life is now in shambles, and he knows he will spend the rest of his life in a cell. That's why I smile a little and give a "HA-ha" laugh like Nelson in the Simpsons when I see the denials, because in the end, they will get what is coming to them. Kicking and screaming, be it before a judge, their wife, or their maker, they will pay.