Yesterday, McNamee’s lawyer, Richard Emery, said that President Bush would pardon Roger Clemens. What do you have to say to that, Rusty Hardin?

“Richard Emery just has to quit smoking his own dope,” said Rusty Hardin, one of Clemens’ attorneys.
Goodness, was Rusty Hardin this hi-larious when defending Arthur Andersen?

I really don’t want to write about the Clemens steroids thing. I really truly don’t. The story itself is remarkably boring. McNamee says Clemens took steroids. Clemens says he didn’t. Congress doesn’t have better things to do, so they get involved. Ho-hum. But the star of this whole process — the one who makes this remotely interesting — has emerged. That star is Rusty Hardin. From the name that seems vaguely obscene, but actually isn’t, to the odd statistical defense, to his most recent gem, Clemens’ lawyer has been utterly fantastic.
Hardin was quoted in Sunday’s New York Times as saying …read more