Hard work on the part of RNC Chairman Michael Steele and radio comedian Rush Limbaugh caused Politifact.com to give each man the coveted "Pants on Fire" medallion. (Politifact's Truth-O-Meter includes such points of reference as "True," "Half True," "Barely True," and "False." "Pants on Fire" is reserved for exceptionally egregioius falsehoods.) Steele earned his by saying the Veterans Administration is encouraging veterans to kill themselves. Limbaugh's came after he claimed that "President Obama ... wants to mandate circumcision."
