Tonight on Fox Business' Freedom Watch, host Andrew Napolitano made the startling claim that “the government [is] now spending 65 percent of the gross domestic product”:

This is false. This year, the federal government will spend about $3.7 trilliion, which is around 25 percent of the current U.S. GDP of roughly $15 trillion. State and local spending is an additional $2.1 trillion, but adding that to federal spending gets you to just below 40 percent of GDP. That's still quite a bit less than Napolitano's 65 percent.

For those thinking “Hey, maybe he just misspoke,” a huge graphic that appeared behind Napolitano as he said it made things all too clear: