This is a great story:

Spinsanity - How media myths are created: The continuing saga of the Wesley Clark phone call narrative: "Following the dramatic success of such a campaign against Vice President Al Gore in 2000, the latest target is Democratic presidential contender General Wesley Clark, who is being tagged as an inveterate liar based on statements that were at worst simply unclear."

I've been following this struggling "Wesley Clark lied" story for a while, and it still doesn't make any sense, even though it is now several unrelated stories which don't make sense, and they continue not making sense when read backwards, upside down, or with one eye closed. I also tried doing the magic-eye thing; no dice. I've come up with an allegorical version of the scandal to help me figure it out, using the characters Bob, Alice and Nancy, who are about to attend their high school prom.

Headline: "Bob lied about calling Nancy" Perhaps he was trying to look tough, to impress the other guys, but it looks like bob is in hot water tonight, and his chances with Alice may be in jeopardy unless he can explain certain phone calls that he did not make to Nancy. According to Nancy's brother Todd, when he found out that Bob was asking Alice to the prom, he was confused. Todd says he asked Bob: "Hey, Bob, I thought you liked Nancy. Why are you going with Alice?" According to Todd, Bob replied (winking), "If Nancy had returned my phone calls I would have gone with her." Yet when asked about the incident, Nancy stated that she received no phone calls from Bob, and that his phone did not appear on her Caller ID. She added that she didn't care, because she had always planned to go with her boyfriend anyway. So now it seems that Bob has some explaining to do. Did he lie about making those phone calls? When questioned, Bob responded that he had never phoned Nancy and had no interest in her. When confronted with Todd's story, Bob said he did not recall ever talking to Todd, but that if he had said those things it was probably a joke. A likely story. It was now Alice's turn to weight in on how she felt about having a liar for a prom date. "I don't even understand this story," she said. So it seems that Bob had completely falsified his phone calls to Nancy. Digging himself even deeper, he now admits that he never made any phone calls. Bob will have a very difficult time explaining himself on prom night.