Why do politicians lie so often?  There must be a reason for it.  And why do we not demand better of them and ask the media to do a better job of holding them to account?  One could argue that, really, the incentive structure in politics rewards those who lie and the penalties are too slight to stop the practice.  With it comes a growing cynicism that no one can be trusted to keep their word and the pillars of democracy become further weakened.  Bill Adair, from his founding of PolitiFact years back, to this day, has attempted to put the Truth-O-Meter to work, developing a methodology to reveal what’s true and what’s not. In his new book, “Beyond the Big Lie”, he shines the spotlight of the best liars in politics and names names in the Lying Hall of Fame.  He then prescribes ways that we may be able to curb the default tendency to lie.  Finally, he reveals, empirically, which party lies more often.