We've found a witch! May we burn her?

Scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

Writer and editor David Okrent's famous observation (also referred to as "Okrent's Law) is that "The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true."  As much as progressives rant about Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, et al, there's little doubt that this "false equivalence" phenomenon is far more corrosive than such overtly biased reporting and commentary.  One of the more recent and arguably most egregious examples of this is the unaccountably evenhanded coverage of Mitt Romney's blatant lies about the Obama campaign's Ohio lawsuit.  George Zornick of The Nation sifts through the crap and unambiguously breaks it down in this recent article.