Do not accuse our seldom honest leftist friends at The New York Times of being mirthfully malnourished.

If they cannot laugh at themselves, they invite you to mock them as they carry out their sworn pledge to defend President Obama against all charges large and small.

As the most voluble voice in English language media last year for the enforced health insurance farce known as Bombcare, the august Times produced this top-of-the-page headline two days ago:

“Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Falls, Survey Shows.”

As any child capable of tying someone else’s shoes will tell you, that was predictable even before Bombcare was mawkishly implemented last autumn. Somebody would fall for the President’s scam or be forced to accept it. If one person accepted Bombcare, technically that headline would be justified, meaningless but true.

Two days earlier, another left-wing journal, the Los Angeles Titanic, bogusly – and knowingly – reported an overweight fib. In touting Mayor Garcetti’s unsupportable claims about forcing a minimum wage on already overburdened businesses, the Titanic straight-faced this whopper in an editorial:

“More than half a million workers in L.A. would get a raise, and 97 percent of those are breadwinners in their 20s and older…”

Ninety-seven percent? No chance.

From the beginning, the left knew that Bombcare would be a propaganda bonanza for the President and for Democrats even though 85 percent of  Americans had coverage and overwhelmingly wanted to keep it. For them, insurance data can be manipulated to look as fungible as wet noodles, and here is how it played out this week.

The down-the-middle Wall Street Journal and other reliable media reported Tuesday that “The number of uninsured in America dropped by 3.8 million in early 2014…

“The percentage of people without health insurance went from an average of 14.4 percent in 2013 to 13.1 percent over the first three months of 2014 when most of the law was rolled out.”

Poring over the identical data, The New York Times astoundingly reported the 3.8 million person increase represented an 8 percent drop among the uninsured – from 14.4 percent to 13.1 percent without insurance is 8 percent, as the Times counts it by applying modern math.

Could Bombcare have made a lighter impact?

That is today’s No. 1 left wing lie.