When there aren't elections going on, the only thing pollsters can poll is "how fucking nuts is everyone, anyway?" Hey, look, a new Birthers poll!

Betsy McCaughey is a professional liar. She lies. The things she writes are untrue. They are not even "distortions." They are made-up. Everyone has known this for years and yet she was still allowed to derail the nation this month.

The New York Times ran a big story last weekend about Hank Paulson's contacts with Goldman Sachs, but they couldn't get a quote from Paulson because he was too busy writing his memoirs. Really? No, not really.

The unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped last month from 9.5% to 9.4%, which everyone seems to be happy about. Which seems odd, since the percentage of adults without jobs actually went up.

When CNN launched a new ad claiming (falsely) to be beat MSNBC and Fox News in viewers, Fox's flack retorted that Time Warner CEO "Jeff Bewkes is too smart to buy [CNN president] Jon Klein's bullshit." But Rupert Murdoch isn't.

The government is seizing Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park in Florida., to satisfy the debts of the tax-dodging hucksters who founded it. Buy it and finally live the dream of owning an "amazement park" that lies about dinosaurs!

On The Daily Show last week, John Oliver explored the difficulty Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is having selling his house. It was funny! But was it true? Geithner or his broker might have been lying a little bit! [UPDATE: Corrected.]

The news-less summer is saved—the Countess Divorceé trial continues, mercifully! The latest preposterous occurrence: Marie Douglas-David's CEO hubby was not only raped, but also menaced. By his wife's imperious tones!

Mark Sanford wasn't nude-hiking the Appalachian Trail. He was chilling in Argentina. He's just a regular-folks governor who jets to Buenos Aires for a week without telling his wife, abandoning his kids on Father's Day while his staff lies preposterously.

On CNBC today, Jim Cramer had the gall to attack someone for saying things that aren't, in his mind at least, true. Because you shouldn't say things that aren't true! Prepare yourself for a ridiculous clip.

We thought we'd read nothing worse today than Kathryn Jean Lopez's op-ed on John Ensign's affair. But then we read her NRO colleague Andy McCarthy on how Obama is totally an Islamist Fundamentalist!

Heidi Pratt was rushed to a hospital in Costa Rica last night for some kind of stomach infection while filming/quitting I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. Our source calls the entire thing out.

Here's what Grape Nuts is, really: wheat, barley, yeast, water. Here's what Grape Nuts is not: everything they told you it was.

Herman Rosenblat's touching story about reuniting with a holocaust survivor years after the war ended was a sham. Among the conned: the NY Post, Oprah, publishers. Now alchemized into fiction, the tale's finally going public.

Hipster Grifter and Brooklyn superstar Kari Ferrell had her court hearing in Philly today and Doree Shafrir, the lone real reporter to ever have touched this story, was there. Kari told an untruth:

Antipolygraph.org, a web site devoted to debunking lie-detectors as junk science, has busted a Seattle DEA agent for, um, lying by posting rather odd sockpuppet messages to the site's message board.

Will Barack Obama appoint Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court?

Congresswoman Jane Harman took to the airwaves to defend herself against the charge that she conspired with a "suspected Israeli operative" to quash an espionage prosecution against former AIPAC employees. It didn't go so well.

Why does the Washington Post want to tell children that their pirate fantasies are fake and evil?

The New School kids just won't stop getting arrested. At 10 p.m. last night, 200 protesters gathered in Union Square and tried to march en masse to New School president Bob Kerrey's house.