kind of like saying 2 + 2 = 7 in a Math class....

Recently (hat tip to Dean Baker) in the Wall Street Journal Fred Thompson couldn't give an accurate description of the government program he was attacking.

"I know this probably isn't a real popular thing to say, but we couldn't afford this prescription-drug bill," Mr. Thompson said last week on a swing through Iowa, home of Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, who helped push the program through Congress. "We basically put a $72 trillion commitment on top of an already-broken entitlement system. Not a responsible thing to do."

This is taking the "I'm the candidate who is going to tell you uncomfortable truths" a bit too far. In this situation Thompson took it so far as to be off on his numbers by over 62 trillion when discussing Medicare.