Why Does It Take a Kid to Ask This Question?

Globe columnist Joan Vennochi laments the “misspeaking” of presidential candidates. In this era when so many Internet eyes are watching and comparing, it’s much harder for candidates to get away with “misspeaking”. Of Hillary, Joan writes:

As a candidate, Clinton carries the weight of her husband's long list of lies about sex and other matters, as well as her own dishonesty during and after his administration. Dick Morris, a onetime Clinton friend turned nemesis, lists as Hillary Clinton's "admitted lies": being under sniper fire in Bosnia; saying that daughter Chelsea Clinton was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, when she was actually watching it on TV; contending that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary; and learning from the Wall Street Journal how to play the futures market.

These are the admitted lies, which makes this list far shorter, doesn’t it, Joan?

Yesterday a student at Butler University was not answered when he asked if Hillary’s January 1998 rant on national TV about her husband’s innocence and the “vast right-wing conspiracy” supposedly attacking him was honest or was another unadmitted lie. What did she know and when did she know it?

With all those reporters and journalists hovering around Hillary for so many months, why is a college kid the first to ask this question?