I just got around to viewing the Videodog postings from the past few days, and in particular Michael Scherer's clips from the Mackinac GOP conference. Too late to post a comment directly on that clip, so I thought I'd add it here.

I was amazed to hear Giuliani pretend that he had never heard the phrase "willful suspension of disbelief" before, and to insinuate that it is an exampled of twisted "Clintonian" legalese. If you learned the phrase in high school or college but don't remember (or were never taught) who coined it, here you go, courtesy of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief):

The characteristically vivid phrase and concept 'willing suspension of disbelief for the moment' was coined by the poet, literary critic and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria, published in 1817, in the context of the creation and reading of poetry. Chapter XIV describes the preparations with Wordsworth for their revolutionary collaboration Lyrical Ballads (first edition 1798), for which Coleridge had contributed the more romantic, gothic pieces including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge recalled:

"... it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth on the other hand was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ..."

Very Clintonian.