And what's wonderful is that truthful statements can be dismissed as lies at the same time -- that Barack Obama is not a Muslim, for example. We have entered a world of complete topsy-turvydom, in which complete falsehoods (McCain is too modest to mention his time as a prisoner of war, for example, uttered by that shrinking violet Sarah Palin) are accepted in utter silence, while truthful statements (Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11) are treated as if they were treasonous.