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The Mendacity Index: Which president told the biggest whoppers?

Wash. Monthly: ‘Which president told the biggest whoppers?'  [→ READ ]

To come up with our Mendacity Index, we asked a nominating committee of noted journalists and pundits to pick the most serious fibs, deceptions, and untruths spoken by each of the four most recent presidents. … We believe their validity rests somewhere between the Periodic Table and the U.S. News & World Report college rankings.

[via Daily Kos]