This is getting pathological. He did it again! In fact, he did it again even before last week's SCRAPBOOK -- which recorded what was then the latest example -- had hit the newsstands.
In the course of a typically nauseating speech to gay rights activists in Manhattan on Oct. 7 ("You made me a better president; you made me a better person"), Bill Clinton once more made use of "fake Tocqueville," the misattributed quotation this page has been unsuccessfully attempting to expose and kill for nearly four years.
"You've got to believe in this great country," the president urged his audience. "That this is fundamentally a good country, that Alexis de Tocqueville was right when he said America is great because America is good."
Of course, Clinton immediately then acknowledged, "we've done a lot of things that were pretty lousy, starting with slavery, as Thomas Jefferson said."
You guessed it, SCRAPBOOK fans: The president's "pretty lousy" Jefferson quote is no more authentic than his now compulsive Tocqueville reference.