PolitiFlub: Reince Priebus and the tax burden

Unbelievable:

When Priebus says that "Americans will pay more in taxes in 2011 than they will spend on groceries, clothing and shelter combined," his statement is vague enough to be read either as an aggregate measurement (in which case he’d be correct) or a description of the patterns for individual Americans (in which case he’d likely be wrong more often than he’s right). On balance, we rate his statement Half True.

In other words, PolitiFact cares naught for the principle of charitable interpretation--unless perhaps as it can be wielded to ignore reasonable interpretations of statements by Democrats such as Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) or used in reverse on Republicans such as Grover Norquist.

The inconsistency is laughable.