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Lies

  1. vision 2020
    The Big Liar Ends the RNC With Big Lies About Himself and BidenTrump ended the convention as it began — with efforts to salvage his record, make out Biden as a radical, frighten suburbanites, and ignore COVID-19.
  2. lies
    Cops and the Culture WarThere’s an old purpose behind the milkshake lie.
  3. donald trump
    What If Trump Supporters Love Chaos as Much as He Does?There’s new evidence that a significant number of Trump supporters love the man precisely for his destructive, nihilistic, and mendacious ways.
  4. donald trump
    The Taxpayer Tab for Trump’s Golf Outings Tops $100 Million: ReportThe guy who said he wouldn’t play golf as president appears to have lied.
  5. lies
    Sarah Sanders Lies About Reporter Who Called for Her to Be Fired for LyingNo, April Ryan does not want Sarah Sanders to be decapitated.
  6. lies
    Report: Trump’s Inauguration Pics Were Edited to Make the Crowd Look BiggerIt was a simpler time.
  7. lies
    Sarah Sanders’s Correction of Jobs Stats Felt Rare Because It WasThe White House is fond of demanding corrections, but it doesn’t often issue them.
  8. GOP Primary Loser Chided for Not Getting Over Smears Like Trump’s Rivals DidIf Lyin’ Ted Cruz and “nutjob” Lindsey Graham could forgive Trump, other Republicans should grin and bear it, too.
  9. President Trump Claims California’s Elections Are Illegitimate“In many places, like California, the same person votes many times … Not a conspiracy theory, folks. Millions and millions of people.”
  10. Trump Says He ‘Modernized’ America’s Nuclear Arsenal in 6 MonthsMeanwhile, Sebastian Gorka announces that we’re living through a modern Cuban Missile Crisis, and so all criticism of the president must cease.
  11. Trump Is Not Going to Win a Personal Credibility Contest With James ComeyComey’s Senate testimony leads inevitably to a he-said/he-said dispute over facts. Trump’s lawyer took the bait in responding.
  12. House Republicans Have a Simple Strategy to Defend the Health-Care Bill: Lying▶️ Who needs the truth?
  13. Fox News Tweets That Trump Was Working When He Was Actually at His Golf CourseA weird news alert.
  14. The Right Spreads Baseless Lie That Nunes Just Validated Trump’s Baseless LiesEven if the House Intelligence Chair’s allegations are true, they do not remotely vindicate the president’s “wiretap” claims.
  15. Pence Vows Full Evaluation of Voter Rolls in Leaked Audio of Private MeetingThe vice-president isn’t going to let a total lack of evidence get in the way of a perfectly good voter-fraud investigation.
  16. In White House Press Briefing, Sean Spicer Declares Intention to ‘Never Lie’But Trump and his team are “frustrated” and “demoralized” by media negativity, he said.
  17. what is truth anyways
    The Debate Over Whether Trump’s False Statements Are ‘Lies’ Is a Red HerringIt’s impossible to know what’s going on in Donald Trump’s head when he says something crazy, and it isn’t worth arguing about.
  18. Donald Trump’s War Against FactsHis falsehoods seem intended to deny the possibility of truth. When he takes the oath, that practice will become policy.
  19. select all
    Right-Wing Media Reports: Anonymous Twitter Guy Is Committing Election FraudA completely true story from Twitter.
  20. When Trump Lies, Reporters Should Say So. Even If It Makes Them Look ‘Biased.’The New York Times public editor seems to disagree.
  21. Donald Trump Suggests President Obama Supports ISIS (Again)Trump retweets a supporter’s claim that the GOP nominee was “right” to question Obama’s commitment to defeating ISIS — and he has the documents to prove it.
  22. the new adventures of old christine
    Pretty Much Everything Christine O’Donnell Has Said About Her Education History Is WrongTurns out there’s another school she never attended.
  23. ink-stained wretches
    Journalism: Now With Warning LabelsWhy should prescription drugs have all the fun?
  24. america’s sweetheart
    One of Sarah Palin’s Odd Lies Resurfaces on OprahDid her kids take a vote on her joining the McCain campaign? Probably not, but Palin has told the story both ways.
  25. aig
    Oh, Did AIG Say They Paid $120 Million in Bonuses? They Actually Meant $454 MillionTheir bad!
  26. in other news
    ‘Page Six’ Tells Us Opposing Tales About Madonna and Christopher CicconeAnd on the same day, no less! And you stopped buying the ‘Post’ on the weekends.
  27. in other news
    Ryan Adams Announces End of Relationship With Mandy Moore That He Says Never HappenedAnd Chris is PISSED.
  28. in other news
    The Truth About That Woody Allen American Apparel AdSo earlier we discussed how Woody Allen is suing American Apparel founder Dov Charney in the Jewishest lawsuit New York has ever seen. But then we found out a few things.
  29. intel
    Hillary Clinton’s Phantom Snipers Have Excellent Aim, Threaten to Assassinate Her Campaign All the Way From the BalkansIn one of the more awkward backpedals performed to date in this campaign, Hillary Clinton has been forced to admit she fudged somewhat when she said she remembered landing “under sniper fire” during a 1996 Bosnia trip.
  30. party lines
    Faking Our Way Through the ‘Faking It’ PartyThe latest book from the boys of CollegeHumor is Faking It, which teaches you how to pretend to be worldly for fun and profit. At a party for the book in midtown last night, the CollegeHumor founders were dressed in faux-NASA spacesuits — they were faking it as astronauts, although, frankly, we thought they looked more like gay-porn stars — and we, too, gamely put dignity aside to test out some of the book’s techniques. The depressing verdict: Lying works. The evidence is after the jump.