straight from the lip

Available now: a computer algorithm to spot spindoctors in action.

He and his team analysed the usage patterns of 88 deception-linked words within the text of recent campaign speeches from the political leaders. They then determined the frequency of these patterns in each speech, and averaged that number over all of that candidate’s speeches. [Canadian Liberal Paul] Martin received a ranking of 124, while [Conservative Stephen] Harper and [New Democrat Jack] Layton scored 73 and 88, respectively.

American pundit Bill O'Reilly topped out at 147; Karl Rove got nothing but "out of memory" errors.

My blog scored 23. Just sayin'.