One of the benefits of the election being a mere 11 days away is that we will soon be free of the obligation to bring you Steve Benen's weekly chronicle of the toxic bilge coming out of the lie-hole of Willard "Charge of the Lightweight Brigade" Romney. Here's this week's sad litany of Willard's struggles with the truth. But first, Benen relates this joke (which none of the esteemed "fact checkers" in the media would get):
"[A] man dies, goes to heaven, stands before St. Peter, and sees a huge wall of clocks. The man asks what all the clocks are for and St. Peter explains, "These are lie clocks. Everyone on earth has a lie clock. Every time a person lies, the clock hands move."
Pointing to one, the man says, "Whose clock is that?"
"That's Mother Teresa's," St. Peter answers. "The hands have never moved, indicating she never told a lie."
"Incredible," the man responds. "And whose clock is that?"
St. Peter responds, "That's Abraham Lincoln's. The hands moved twice, telling us he told two lies in his entire life."
"Where is Mitt Romney's clock?" the man asks.
"Romney's clock is in Jesus' office," St. Peter says. "He's using it as a ceiling fan."
Once again, how is it that this thing is polling in the mid- high 40's?
