A Slap To The Head

There's not much worth reading in The New Republic these days, but this Jon Chait column takes the right tone in dressing down an innumerate talking penis:

I'll give Fleischer the benefit of the doubt here and assume that this isn't an outright lie, but rather he couldn't read the table correctly. Let me explain it this way, Ari: Suppose that a few years ago, 37 percent of your scalp was covered with hair. Today, only 31 percent is. Would you say that your hair has increased or decreased over that time?

It all depends on what Karl Rove told him to say, J.C.