Minutes ago as I write this Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal appeared on Chuck Todd’s MSNBC program Daily Rundown and endorsed Rick Perry. When asked why he chose Perry over Romney, Jindal evaded the thrust of the question, looked straight into the camera with a charming smile and lied his conservative Christian ass off (paraphrasing), “It’s about the economy, Governor Perry created almost a million jobs in Texas and Obama has lost millions of jobs. Gov Perry understands that jobs don’t come from government spending, they come from the private sector.”

Here’s the reality:

Despite being one of the loudest critics of President Obama’s stimulus, Perry used billions of dollars of federal money to patch Texas’ budget shortfalls, and was thus able to create and maintain lots and lots of public sector jobs. In fact, if you look at net job creation between 2007 and 2010, it’s clear the only thing keeping Texas buoyant was government jobs.

Not only did the growth of state-government jobs make the difference in Texas when compared to other states, those state jobs were only made possible by zillions in federal stimulus funds, AKA government spending, handed to Gov. Rick Perry by President Obama and the 2009 democratic congress. The same spending Perry is running against with every fiber beating in his evil little heart.

We all know Bobby Jindal is a fundamentlist lunatic who buys into faith healing and exorcism, we all know these scumbags will lie at the drop of a hat at every chance. But it was startling to watch Chuck Todd look on blankly as the whopper unfolded despite knowing full well he could correct the record for viewers and even, gasp, ask Jindal to defend the lie.