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more about #lies more comments → Mediahohoho: Wow. Outclassed by the newspaper owned by the Korean reincarnation of Jesus. Roger's gone off the rails, hasn't he, Ken? more » daveyjonesisdead: YOu guys would vote for Lifehacker as blog of the decade, before Talking Points Memo? Seriously? more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Hey, Boehner, orange you glad you skipped the State Dinner? more » Rozelle’s Bagman: I was wondering about all the mouthbreathing in the comments --- [thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com] more » seyswho: Maybe "Fair and Balanced" just means everyone who works there is light-skinned and in touch with their center of gravity. more » Lysergic Asset: Great post, Pareene. Keep shining a light on the deceit and obfuscation. Sadly, it seems that Fox "News" (and the Republicans in general) are the Jed... more » atlasfugged: I guess the "Error-Free" memo isn't being circulated around Fox News quickly enough. more » momof3wildkids: I suspect that the Republicans didn't want to attend an event that didn't feature copious amounts of MEAT. Though I must say I found the state dinner... more » raincoaster: Canada perfected this little scheme back when the National Post was founded and trying to inflate its numbers. more » DannyOcean: 100 dollars could not count as 100,000 copies if each one is a penny. That would be 10,000 Why are so many Gawker writers so terrible at math? more » lobstr: I went to UNLV right at the ending cusp of LV's glory days (More classic hotels on the Strip than douchebag attractors, Tarkanian was still coaching, ... more » Immaculate: "FEWER people are getting newspapers circulated to them" would be an improvement, though the sentence still sucks. more » RCrumbudgeon: I think the banality of Howald's comments perfectly illustrate how advertisers' expectations of newspaper advertising producing any tangible benefits ... more » DevilsAvocadoRedux: Maybe they just can't afford to keep paying the interweb bills and so are forced to regress, technologically speaking, to the printed form of news. T... more » skahammer: I would like a paper machete hat, please. And then, look the hell out. more » -
#journalismism
In Which Fox Edits Lies into the News
Here's how an accurate-but-slanted story becomes an outright lie: the conservative (and rapidly collapsing) Moonie-owned Washington Times notes that Republicans didn't show up to Obama's dinner. Then, Fox takes over. More » -
#printisdead
Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
Circulation rates going up! That's great! Print's dying and someone's succeeding! THANK GOD. Except, not. While circulations go up, fewer people are getting newspapers circulated to them. How? More » -
#propaganda
Fox News Applies Its Patented Crowd-Inflating Technique to Sarah Palin
Fox News does not learn: The network is claiming that the crowd at a Sarah Palin event today is "huge," and showing footage from what is almost certainly a McCain-Palin rally as evidence. More » -
#awesomethings
A Million Little Palinisms: Leaked Emails Already Contradicting The "Truth" of Going Rogue
Sarah Palin writing a book was asking for trouble. Here it is. McCain campaign emails have leaked, and they're completely damning to the validity of the book's narrative. Involved: the "whack" Saturday Night Live, radio pranks, and McCain's campaign manager. More » -
#money
Sarah Palin: Mean John McCain Made Me Pay My Own Legal Bills (Also, You Betcha, Etc)
Today in "what on earth is Sarah Palin talking about": is John McCain responsible for all those legal debts she accrued that forced her to stop governing Alaska and instead write a steamy political romance-thriller? More » -
#crime
Balloon Boy's Parents to Plead Guilty to Hoaxing America's Cable News Personalities
Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents of that cute vomiting boy who did not get lost in the air in a balloon, will plead guilty tomorrow to charges that they concocted the story in order to become famous, which happened. More » -
#punditry
Sean Hannity Promises to Respond to Comedy Show That Fact-Checked Him
We all saw the Daily Show fact-checking Fox clip, right? Where Hannity reused 9/12 rally footage and pretended it was from last week? Guess what: Hannity is going to "respond" tonight, on his show! So we'd better all watch!
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#lies
TMZ Far Too Modest to Run Sex Tape
Protector of feminine virtue TMZ says it's had a homemade sex tape starring attractive but not smart beauty pageant loser Carrie Prejean for months. But TMZ's own sense of decency simply wouldn't allow it to be published. More » -
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#lies
The Old 'I Work For Jon Corzine' Excuse Won't Get You Out of Ecstasy Possession Arrest, Bro
On Tuesday, Jon Corzine runs for New Jersey Governor! Earlier today, the New York Post and WABC New York reported on "Corzine staffer" 25 year-old Jason Shih's arrest for having a bunch of E on him. Except: Shih totally lied. More » -
#lies
Michael Moore Shamelessly Tells Exaggerated Anecdote On Late-Night Talk Show
Fat propagandist Michael Moore told Jimmy Kimmel that he consumed tequila with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at 2 AM. Socialists are furious! More » -
#hoaxes
Rush Limbaugh Falls For Non-Hoax
Whoops! Rush Limbaugh accidentally read, on-air, statements attributed to Barack Obama that Barack Obama never wrote. He must be super-embarrassed! Especially after he made a big deal out of people doing that with him last week. More » -
#pr
Shocker! Fox News' PR People Caught Lying About Something!
Kansas City Star TV critic Aaron Barnhart got an e-mail from Fox News last week that he thought was funny, and posted about it on Twitter. Fox News flacks said the network never sent the e-mail. They lied. More » -
#healthcare
Large, Evil Consulting Firm Releases Long, Evil Health Insurance Report
You thought all PricewaterhouseCoopers' did was count Oscar votes and seal envelopes, but you are wrong. They also lie, professionally, for various large and evil industries. More » -
#starwars
NASA's Moon Assault Probably Awesome If You Were on the Moon
We'd be lying if we said that we weren't hoping for at least a temporary, small-scale lunar disaster this morning when NASA attacked the moon, with a rocket. The computer simulations, at least, showed a huge explosion. Alas. More » -
#apologies
New Republic Finally Gets Around to Calling Betsy McCaughey a Crazy Person
As we explained in August, Betsy McCaughey is a liar who lies. Incessantly. The magazine that ennabled her lying originally is now, finally calling her out on it. More » -
#classicads
When Cigarette Ads Had Balls
In five years, will you be a wheezing, blackened mess? Or—conversely—will you have five more years of tobacco byproducts in your lungs? Well. You have to admire their "Lie big or lie dead" attitude. Click to enlarge. [Copyranter] -
#drudgeology
Your Morning in Fabricated Drudge Headlines
This is Matt Drudge's headline about the outing of a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear facility. Here's what the story he links to says: "White House officials said Western intelligence agencies have been tracking the facility for years." More » -
#tooinsidery
Tucker Max Lies About Totally Inconsequential Thing
Here's our artist friend Tucker "Tucker" Max (who am I to make fun of names?) on the "Lemondrop" radio show scoffing at the notion that he would ever email Gawker, that's ridiculous. Huh. More » -
#artists
Today's Lies From Tucker Max
Tucker Max did an interview with City Pages in Minneapolis about his movie. He said at least six untrue things: More » -
#streisandeffect
Glenn Beck, PR Genius, Spreads the False Rumor He Raped and Murdered a Young Girl in 1990
Some online provocateurs launched an internet meme claiming Glenn Beck killed a young girl in 1990 to parody his maddening fact-free rhetorical style. Now Glenn Beck's trying to shut down their web site, ensuring that people will write about it. More »
