Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz said the following: “On tax reform, we, right now, have more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible — not a one of them as good.”

Now it seems like an indisputable and relatively harmless thing for a Republican politician to have said, as the tax code is about 3.7 million words long, or almost five times the length of the Bible. But would you believe that the it was subject to a Washington Post “fact check”? Behold, possibly the dumbest media fact check in history:

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