Ryan Runs From Claim

What a surprise:  Paul Ryan lied about something? Experts in the running world--including at Runners World--raised questions all day about Paul's claim to have once run a sub-three-hour marathon, which is pretty damn good.  Now he has come clean--oh, he just got mixed up, it was years ago, and somehow his brother is involved, or something.  Hasn't confessed to other lies, though.

UPDATE #1  Paul Krugman has brought up this salient claim.  Remember how the GOP helped torpedo Al Gore in 2000 with constant references to him (supposedly) claiming he "invented" the internet and other alleged bits of immodesty?  "Al Gore was constantly hounded by claims of fibbing on trivial issues — claims that, by the way, were all, as far as I could tell, fabricated. These alleged fibs supposedly showed some deep defect in his character. So if Ryan is making false claims about his physical prowess, this is absolutely fair game."

UPDATE  #2  New Yorker writer with more today on if, or how, this matters.    James Fallows also weighs in on this and other "post-truths."