Last week, I bagged on Senator Ron Latz for – forget manners for a moment – lying about gun crime in Minnesota.

To readers of this blog, it’s no surprise that it was, to a geometric point, baked monkey doodle – so much so that an entire catagory on this blog is dedicated to their serial fabulism.

It’s from the top down, of course:

Our postmodern president, a good friend of mine points out, has proved that facts don’t matter. The weakest economic recovery in post-World War II history has been sold as a rousing success.

We increased our troop levels in Iraq, but miraculously we still don’t have any “boots on the ground.” The man who told his supporters, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” was sold to America by the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the networks as a post-partisan—one who somehow found a way to blame Republicans for all the country’s ills. Obama also showed that bullying the Supreme Court—calling them out for their Citizens United decision in a State of the Union address—could pay dividends down the road. An intimidated Chief Justice John Roberts used pretzel-like logic to redefine the Obamacare mandate as a tax, though the administration had insisted that it was nothing of the kind.

What is it called when “fact-checking” exists to support factlessness?