When I posted this morning's episode of TPMtv with Rudy Giuliani's record of gonzo fibs -- I was a 9/11 recovery worker, I'm a torture expert from my dad's waterboarding mobsters in the 1980s, I caught a 68 pound largemouth bass on 2 pound test line -- I thought there were other examples out there that we hadn't remembered. And I asked readers to send in examples.

Well it turns out that Steve Benen has been keeping a list of Rudy's exaggerations over at his site. Now, some of Steve's example don't fit the model we were getting at. So one has to do with exaggerating comments Hillary made. That's a good catch in itself. But it doesn't fit with the pattern of personality-cult-in-making kinds of silly claims of expertise and experience.

You know, the way that most dictator's bios have them not only being experts in power politics but also accomplished scholars, great singers, script writers and various other nonsense.

But there's one really choice one Steve has that really belongs in the line up. Rudy apparently claims that he's been "studying Islamic terrorism for 30 years." That one comes from an August article in Time. So basically, back in the 1970s and 1980s, Rudy was already a student of Jihadism. Time's Amanda Ripley shows pretty handily that all the available evidence shows that Rudy gave little or no attention to Jihadism before 9/11. But I'm less taken by the falsity of the claim that the boffo personality-cult-in-his-own-mind wackiness of it. Is there any topic he can allow himself not to be the most expertest person there is on the subject?