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  • September 2008

    • McCain's Lies Cross the Line

      Time  |  Sep 18, 08 12:59 PM CDT

      McCain's Lies Cross the Line

      (Newser) - Politicians often stretch the truth, but John McCain has taken things to a new level, writes Joe Klein in Time. Journalists usually play softball when criticizing candidates’ falsehoods, but now even the restrained New York Times editorial board is calling McCain a liar. McCain’s campaign has been a “ceaseless assault” on Obama, Klein writes, characterized by “a consistent—and witting—disdain for the truth.” More »

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      John McCain  • McCain 2008  • negative campaigning  • smear campaign  • lying

    • Lying Corrupts Campaigns Just as Money Can

      Washington Post  |  Sep 11, 08 11:58 AM CDT

      Lying Corrupts Campaigns Just as Money Can

      (Newser) - We all know John McCain wasn’t really offended by Barack Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment—the one he pretended to think was a reference to Sarah Palin. “The whole controversy is ginned up, a fraud, a lie,” writes Michael Kinsley in the Washington Post. So why isn’t anyone calling McCain on it? Lies ought to be self-defeating, but in American politics, they're not. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Sarah Palin  • pig  • lying  • lipstick

  • April 2008

    • Carter: Rice Is Fibbing, Didn't Nix Hamas Meet

      Reuters  |  Apr 23, 08 3:00 PM CDT

      Carter: Rice Is Fibbing, Didn't Nix Hamas Meet

      (Newser) - Jimmy Carter continued a war of words with Condoleezza Rice today over whether he was officially warned against meeting with Hamas leaders last week—insisting through reps that, “perhaps inadvertently, she is continuing to make a statement that is not true.” The Secretary of State said yesterday a top diplomat counseled Carter against the summit—but the ex-president begs to differ, Reuters reports. More »

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      Condoleezza Rice  • Hamas  • Jimmy Carter  • lying

    • False News of Blood Samples Delays Diana Inquest

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  Apr 1, 08 7:30 PM CDT

      False News of Blood Samples Delays Diana Inquest

      (Newser) - The Princess Diana inquest came to a brief halt today after the possibility of new evidence arose, the Daily Mail reports. Just as the inquest was winding down, the coroner received an email saying a new blood sample from Diana's driver had turned up in Paris. The evidence would have been key to the dispute over whether Henri Paul was intoxicated, but the samples turned out to be bunk. More »

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      Great Britain  • Princess Diana  • Diana inquest  • Dodi al Fayed  • Mohamed al Fayed  • Paul Burrell  • lying  • Henri Paul  • Scott Baker

  • March 2008

    • Court: Italian Women Can Lie About Adultery

      BBC  |  Mar 8, 08 3:05 PM CST

      Court: Italian Women Can Lie About Adultery

      (Newser) - Italian adulterers have made their bed, and now the country’s top appeals court says they can lie in it: The Court of Cassation has ruled that married women can tell fibs to cover up an affair to protect their honor, the BBC reports. The judgment stems from the case of a woman who was convicted of giving false testimony to police. More »

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      Italy  • marriage  • divorce  • adultery  • lying  • honor

    • Di's Butler Refuses Court Return

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 6, 08 1:12 PM CST

      Di's Butler Refuses Court Return

      (Newser) - Princess Diana’s ex-butler rejected a request to return to Britain to clarify statements made to a reporter about having lied to the inquest into her death, the Guardian reports today. Paul Burrell, who now lives in Florida, says he had "been drinking all evening and was tired and depressed" the night he was unwittingly videotaped bragging about perjuring himself. More »

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      Great Britain  • British royals  • Princess Diana  • Diana inquest  • perjury  • Paul Burrell  • lying  • butler

  • December 2007

    • '08 Alert: Mitt Misspoke on King March

      Boston Globe  |  Dec 21, 07 5:29 PM CST

      '08 Alert: Mitt Misspoke on King March

      (Newser) - Mitt Romney backtracked yesterday from claims that he saw his father march with Martin Luther King in the 1960s, saying he used "saw" as “a figure of speech." The Boston Globe dissects the partial mea culpa, noting that the candidate couldn't have "seen" it even figuratively because Romney père never walked an inch with the civil-rights leader. Worse, Mitt “went a step further” in 1978, the piece notes, declaring, “My father and I marched with” King. More »

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      Mitt Romney  • Martin Luther King Jr.  • NRA  • lying  • George Romney

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