As Media Matters noted in its fact-checking of Karl Rove's new book, the former Bush aide hit the motherload of misinformation with a paragraph that revived the 2000-era greatest hits about the Al Gore, the alleged exaggerator.

Just try to count the Gore lies found in this one single paragraph:

Over the past few decades, Gore had said that he had created the Internet, been the model for Love Story, led a crusade against tobacco, discovered the Love Canal chemical disaster, lived on a farm while vice president, never grew tobacco on his farm, didn't know that his visit to a Buddhist temple was a fund-raiser, faced enemy fire in Vietnam, and sent people to jail as a reporter. It was a compelling life story; unfortunately, none of it was true.

What's astonishing is that all these Gore lies have been thoroughly debunked. Like many, many years ago. It's common knowledge that this stuff is garbage. Yet here's Rove, ten years later, casually lying about Gore, secure in his knowledge that conservative readers of the book won't care that the claims are false, and apparently also secure in the knowledge that his publisher, Simon & Schuster's Threshold Editions, doesn't really care about fact checking and will publish whatever partisan tripe he types up.

Media Matters set the record straight yesterday. But Bob Somerby at The Daily Howler has been doing the Lord's work regarding the War on Gore for the last decade, teasing out what the lasting significance has been in terms of our politics and our press. Maybe he could weigh in on just how astounding that single Rove paragraph is and what it represents about our public discourse.

UPDATED: It will be interesting is to see how members of the chattering class deal with Rove's book, especially if they take the time to read it and see paragraphs like the one noted above; paragraphs that are literally built upon layers and layers of obvious falsehoods. Will the chattering class call Rove out, or play along?