I don’t know if drugs are a part of this, but on Larry King tonight, Jermaine Jackson said, concerning Michael’s kids “You can just look at them and tell that they are Michael’s.” Hmmmm. King showed a video of the kids: Paris, who has hair which is really straight, but a swarthy complexion. The hair may have been processed, so, well, maybe the old boy was potent. Prolly not, but I may be wrong. Same thing for the next in age. but when I saw the white, blond haired boy, of course I thought it was a video of Michael when he was younger. NOT. give me a break.
But, I also remember when the Monicagate deal came out. Hillary said that her darling Bill had a tremendous gift for counseling young, troubled women. Mmmm hmmmm…and she expects us to swallow this.
In both cases, nobody called them on it. These entirely obvious lies make me want to go slap the crap out of the interviewer, such as King, who just kept up the charade, making me also want to barf.
Well, you have the parameters. Ballsy lies, with excrement eating grins and nods of the head from the interviewers. Nobody challenges the nonsense. Nobody. This thread, ergo, can include partisan hits, but does not extend to things like WMD, the health bill, etc, things with a lot of legitimate controversy.
Tell me what public figure told the biggest lie without getting busted on the spot.
I know it’s going to draw flack but the United Negro College Fund and other black groups who are always claiming a million things to have been invented by black inventors, which in reality were either not invented by black inventors or not invented by anyone at all but merely improved over the course of hundreds of years and thus should not be credited to any one individual. This kind of bullshit is disingenuous in the extreme but they always get a pass because you’re a racist if you speak up about it.
Although she got plenty of attention for saying things that were dumb, incoherent, or inflammatory, Sarah Palin very rarely was held accountable for things that were substantially untrue.
The OP asked to distinguish between outright lies and items for which there can be said to be legitimate controversy.
That list contains a mixture of the two. For example:
Do I even have to detail the problems with this claim? It may be simultaneously true that she does not pass judgement, but still disfavors same-sex partnership rights. And if Rev. Wright taught us nothign else, surely he taught us that one may belong to a church without uncrically accepting all its teachings.
Come on. Regardless of what the report concluded, it’s certainly possible that he was fired for unrelated reasons. Only she knows for sure, but this is hardly an uncontroverted lie.
This, on the other hand, is exactly what the OP is talking about – a blatant denial of an unambiguous fact.
So I don’t believe you can simply link to that list and say, “There!” Many of the claims on the list don’t fit the request.
The recruitment video you linked for the USMC wasn’t particularly dishonest. It showed a bunch of guys running around in the mud, at least. And emphasized the honor and duty part, rather than “it’s easy and you get money for college” part.
What logical reason can one have to oppose same-sex marriage that does not include the judgment that there is something morally unacceptable about homosexuality?
Not a full hijack (as is my wont) but has Larry King completely abandoned ever bothering to cover another news story besides Jackson’s death?
It’s been well over a month since Jacko kicked the bucket (rest in peace) and King has done nothing but traipse out one after another player associated in the slightest way with Anything-Jackson. I’ve always considered Larry King more of a fringe journalist but he has now plunged deeply into Can’t-Possibly-Take-Seriously-Ever-Again territory. What the hell has gotten into this guy?
I think he’s actually referring to a recent event, where it was claimed, among other things, that an African-American invented the hairbrush, or something like that.
This thread is just going to devolve into “Here are a bunch of positions/institutions/ideologies/whatever I don’t like, and prominent supporters of them.”