After watching Fox newsman Chris Wallace interview Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, today, was left with the impression that Team Clinton will always lie when the truth is handier.



By my count, Mook used the word “unprecedented” at least three times – and in each usage, he was lying.



Wallace and Mook were, of course, discussing FBI Director James Comey’s weekend announcement (“weekend announcements” are the norm from Washington when they’re seeking to downplay the news) that the bureau has reason to re-open its investigation into the Clinton email scandal.



Master Mook said (lied) repeatedly that the action this close to a presidential election was “unprecedented” in American history.



Wrong.



As Paul Bedard reported in The Washington Examiner (as shared by HCP alert reader Jim Thompson): “Whispers of ‘payback’ are being directed at Hillary Clinton after she decried as ‘unprecedented’ the surprise FBI revival of its probe of her email scandal. That's because 24 years ago, as former President George H.W. Bush was surging back against challenger Bill Clinton, a special prosecutor raised new charges against Bush in the Iran-Contra probe, prompting Clinton to claim he was running against a ‘culture of corruption.’ Many Republicans claimed that the indictment made by special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh against former Reagan-era Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger the weekend before the 1992 election cost Bush a second term.”



Unprecedented, Master Mook? Not a chance. Just ask your boss.



I have been following the Clinton political machine and writing about it since 1992 – back when Robby was in junior high school. Perhaps Master Mook is less familiar with his employer.



Moving on, Master Mook also failed to take a more convenient – and truthful – exit when Wallace asked about Clinton’s Oct. 28 response to the FBI probe.



“If they’re going to be sending this kind of letter – that is only going originally to Republican members of the House – that they need to share whatever facts they claim to have with the American people,” Clinton said.



Wallace then asked his guest: “Robby, (yes, Robby) why would she say something that is so flatly untrue? I have a copy here. It’s the letter that Comey sent to Congress. On the front page, it’s got the eight Republican chairmen of the committees. If you turn it over, you’ve got the eight top Democrats on the committee. Why would she say it was just sent to the Republicans when, in fact, it was sent to the Republicans and Democrats?



Robby, er, Master Mook, replied: “You know, Chris, this has been really overhyped.”



No, it’s been underreported and underinvestigated.



Wallace added: “But Robby, I want to make one more point about this letter. You say it’s hype. Comey sent the letter about 1 p.m. Friday. Your campaign chairman, John Podesta, put out a statement at 3:45 p.m. in which he made exactly the same charge that this letter had been sent just to the Republicans, not to the Democrats. Three hour and 15 minutes later, Hillary Clinton makes the same charge. This was a talking point of your campaign, and frankly, it was a dishonest talking point.”



Dishonesty is at the core, the essence, the sum and substance of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their political machine from Arkansas to Washington, D.C. to New York. Truth is always on a holiday in their political camp.



Also today, former assistant FBI director James Kallstrom said that the Clintons are part of a “crime family” and argued top officials hindered the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of State.



According to The Hill (http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/303458-former-fbi-official-clintons-are-a-crime-family), “During a radio interview with John Catsimatidis, Kallstrom said, ‘The Clintons, that’s a crime family, basically. It’s like organized crime. I mean the Clinton Foundation is a cesspool.’”



Kallstrom said Clinton (Hillary, just for clarification if needed) was a “pathological liar.”



“God forbid we put someone like that in the White House,” he said of Clinton.



Of course, we already did. The question is whether we’ll make the same mistake again.



Twenty-four years ago, as he campaigned for president in 1992, Bill Clinton warned us: “You get two for the price of one,” implying that Hillary would be a co-president. (Which she was.)



What the mainstream media often failed to report, though, was the dirty laundry that made its way from Little Rock to the White House. But a few were watching, even back then, before Al Gore invented the Internet.



Magazines such as National Review and American Spectator and a few newspapers, certainly The Wall Street Journal, (see http://www.wsj.com/articles/laptop-may-include-thousands-of-emails-linked-to-hillary-clintons-private-server-1477854957) reported facts that the nightly TV news on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN mostly ignored. (This was long before the Lewinsky episode which the media simply could not resist reporting after the Drudge Report showed the way.)



Not long after the Clintons arrived in Washington, their political scandals from Arkansas metastasized like a cancer on what ought to be good government in this once great republic.



Forget about Bill’s paramours and Hillary’s acceptance, but do yourself a favor and read about the Clintons’ (yes, plural) involvement in Whitewatergate, Travelgate, Filegate, Pardongate and Chinagate.



Just what kind of public servants have friends and business partners like Diamond Jim and Hot Pants Susan McDougal, Marc Rich, Red Bone, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner (didn’t Bill Clinton perform their wedding?).



The list goes on and on.



Simply put, Hillary Clinton is unfit for public office. Always has been.

This week, John Kass wrote in the Chicago Tribune: “If ruling Democrats hold themselves to the high moral standards they impose on the people they govern, they would follow a simple process: They would demand that Mrs. Clinton step down, immediately, and let her vice presidential nominee, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, stand in her place. Democrats should say, honestly, that with a new criminal investigation going on into events around her home-brew email server from the time she was secretary of state, having Clinton anywhere near the White House is just not a good idea.”



Indeed.



Happy voting on Nov. 8.



Rory Ryan is publisher and owner of The Highland County Press.