Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Sid Miller, is all about Facebook.  Okay, maybe not all. And I say that because he makes a fool of himself in person, too.

Sid’s latest tongue tangle is with The Texas Tribune over a story they did researching all the false information and fake news on Sid’s Facebook page.  The problem Sid was facing is that Tribune documented it all with real screen shots.

But Sid has a response anyway!  He phoned a call-in radio show in Austin and explained why their was so much false and made-up information on his Facebook site.

“I’m not a news organization,” Miller told reporter Nathan Bernier. “Y’all are holding me to the same standards as you would a news organization, and it’s just Facebook.”

On his Facebook page, according to the Tribune article, Miller has warned that terrorists are preparing “for their jihad against the state and our nation” in a compound outside Houston. Another post claimed President Obama had held up a T-shirt printed with a likeness of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara during a trip to Cuba.

He said much of what he posted on Facebook was “satire, or comedy” and that his Facebook page wasn’t a reliable source for “factual news.”

“I shouldn’t be held to that standard,” he said. “It’s like Fox News: I report, you decide if it’s true or not.”

I’m sure that Fox News is thrilled to hear that Sid changed their motto.

Sid Miller: More Unreliable Than Fox News.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.