He’s [Frank] lying through his teeth … We need to destroy Frank. House of Cards US s2e13: Chapter 26, president
We’ve been lying for a long time, Francis. Not to them, to each other. House of Cards s3e13: Chapter 39, Claire
You have the gall to take my hand, look me in the eye and lie to my face. House of Cards US s4e10: Chapter 49, Catherine Durant to Frank
Cora, why did you lie to me about your parents being dead? The Sinner s1e1: Cora, opening scene bird, rozzer, Netflix 2017
On September 17th 1903 the Daily Telegram shared a story with its readers in Clarksburg, West Virginia. A dispute over a pet dog between two immigrant miners had led to a tragedy: it was one of the miners who took the bullet. Ian Hislop’s Fake News, BBC 2019
What motivates fake news? From propaganda and paranoia to profit and politics. ibid.
New York Journal: Destruction of the War Ship Maine was the work of an enemy. ibid.
When President Trump talks about fake news, which he has more or less constantly since being elected in 2016, what he means is real news that he doesn’t like. ibid.
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion purports to reveal the detailed plans with which a Jewish elite will take over the world. ibid.
There are occasions where fake news has been undertaken with the full knowledge of the state and justified as being in the national interest. ibid.
Doesn’t lying make us as bad as the enemy? … Lies have unforeseeable consequences. ibid.
I believe that there are potentially very real threats from fake news. ibid.
People are actually confusing real and fake news, especially if they see it online. After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News, Elizabeth Williamson of The New York Times, Sky 2020
Pope Francis shocks world, endorses Donald Trump for president, releases statements. ibid. online headline
Pizzagate: this child sex trafficking ring in a pizza parlour. ibid. lady
Mueller Probe Indicts 12 Russians in Hacking of DNC and Clinton Campaign. ibid. The Wall Street Journal
Trump endorses accused kid molester Moore. ibid. Daily News
All governments are liars and nothing they say should be believed. I F Stone, American journalist
Probably the two most devastating lies in the history of the world is that smoking doesn’t cause disease, and we don’t market to children. Matthew Myers, campaign for tobacco-free kids
‘For eight years I endured it as a child and as a teen.’ The Unbelievable Story of Carl Beech, ‘Me’ a poem by Carl Beech, BBC 2020
‘Electrocution and drowning were some of their tools, when I was bad and broke their rules.’ ibid. Beech
In 2014 Carl Beech, a seemingly unremarkable man from Gloucester, perhaps better know by his pseudonym Nick, claimed he had been the victim of a VIP paedophile ring in the 1970s and ’80s. So who was Carl Beech, and why did he choose to go public with this extraordinary story? ibid.
In 2012 Beech told Yorkshire Police he had been sexually abused by his step-father, by Jimmy Savile, and by some other men he called The Group. After a brief investigation, Wiltshire Police dismissed Beech’s allegations but not before Beech had submitted a compensation claim for the abuse he had suffered. Two years later he began writing about his abuse online. ibid.
Beech named twelve men he said had abused and raped him … high-ranking members of the military … politicians and members of the establishment … another was Sir Edward Heath. ibid.
A month later doubts about the story began to emerge in the press. ibid.
‘He’d been filming covertly schoolboys.’ ibid. Tom Wilkinson, journalist
Her story originated in Belgium but she was living in Millis, Massachusetts, twenty miles away from the radio station. Storyville: Misha and the Wolves, DJ, BBC 2022
When she was only seven years old she walked alone for years, through Nazi occupied countries across thousands of miles in search of her deported parents. Misha is now a grown-up Jewish woman living in the Boston area. She is a Holocaust survivor. ibid.
The Jury found anonymously for Misha on all counts. ibid.
This doesn’t add up. Clearly, she knows a lot more about who she is than she told me. ibid. woman
The fact that she changed the name in France and Belgium … suggests to me that she is trying to hide something. ibid. woman #2
It’s all a big scam. ibid. television news
Roswell: The AI predicts Marcel’s statement is True confirming that General Ramey knew that the weather balloon story is a life. Roswell: The First Verdict IV: Discredit & Humiliate, 2021
We all have to lie. Each in our own way. And now it’s over for both of us. Thank God for that. The Ipcress File s1e6, Dolby’s partner, ITV 2022
Events afterward [Bay of Tonkin, Vietnam] showed that we’d been attacked that day was wrong. It didn’t happen ... We was wrong. Robert S McNamara, The Fog of War 2003, director Errol Morris
We now know that the alleged attack by a North Vietnamese torpedo boat on an American destroyer was absolutely fabricated, completely fictitious. President Lyndon B Johnson made use of the lie to justify the Vietnam War. Manfried Petritsch, financial dude
Success has always been a great liar. Friedrich Nietzsche
The Neo-Conservatives were beginning to believe that their ideal of freedom was an absolute. And that this then justified lying and exaggerating in order to enforce that vision. The end justified the means. Although they portrayed the Contras as freedom fighters, it was well known that they used murder, assassination and torture. And also were allegedly using CIA-supplied planes to smuggle cocaine back into the United States. And to finance the Contras, the Neo-Conservatives were even prepared to deal with America’s enemy – the leaders of the Iranian revolution. In 1985 those running the Nicaragua operation held a series of secret meetings with Iranian leaders in Europe. They arranged to sell the Iranians American weapons; in return the Iranians would release American hostages held in Lebanon. Then the money from these sales would be used by those running Project Democracy to fund the Contras. The only problem was that this was completely illegal. And the President knew it. Adam Curtis: The Trap III: We Will Force You to be Free, BBC 2007
In 1995 Panorama got a scoop its rivals the world over wanted. It changed history. Now an independent Inquiry for the BBC has found that reporter Martin Bashir used forgeries to get the interview, deceiving Princess Diana and her brother. Martin Bashir spun a web of elaborate lies to win the trust of the Princess. For 25 years the BBC defended its global scoop but now stands accused of a failure of integrity. Martin Bashir’s reputation lies in ruins described by the Inquiry as dishonest and devious. Panorama: Princess Diana, Martin Bashir & the BBC, BBC 2021
Keir Starmer 2020: The attacks on Jeremy Corbyn in that election … were terrible. They vilified him and they knew what they were doing and they knew why they were doing it.
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Keir Starmer 2023: Corbyn allowed hate to spread in the party. Cited Tweet 29th January 2023
In 2015, something strange happened in British politics. A movement no-one expected. With a leader no-one predicted. And the start of the biggest political witch-hunt of the 21st century. Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie ***** 2023
‘Antisemitic and a racist.’ ibid. The Jewish Chronicle front page
Nobody can fail to see that this was a concerted, orchestrated campaign. ibid. Moshe Machover
Senior officials in headquarters were actively working against Labour. ibid. Ken Loach
Starmer: A dangerous deceitful man who will do anything. ibid. woman
In 2017 the supporters of Jeremy Corbyn came close to putting him Number 10. But within three years his party had been crushed at the polls, and Jeremy and his grass-roots movement apparently dumped in the wastebin of history. What happened? And what destroyed the Corbyn project? And has it been destroyed? ibid. Alexsie Sayle
This is a story of injustice and the destruction of democracy. And deception on an industrial scale. ibid. caption
But for the establishment the sudden rise of Corbyn was terrifying. ibid. Sayle
But from the start Jeremy Corbyn’s biggest threat was from his own MPs. ibid.
Corbyn didn’t win the election but he got the largest increase in the share of the vote of any Labour leader since Clement Attlee in 1945. ibid.
The Smear that Stuck: ‘There is a big lie everywhere and one of the big lies of our time is the Labour Party being infested with Anti-Semitism.’ ibid. Machover
The Anti-Semitic smear hurt Corbyn but it didn’t take him down. ibid. Sayle
10th July 2019 BBC Panorama transmitted, ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic? reporter John Ware. ibid. caption
‘Instead of that we went on the defensive. We tried to say we’re sorry.’ ibid. man
Behind closed doors, there was a secret war against him, being fought by his party’s own paid officials. ibid. Sayle
In London’s Ergon House a secret team were channelling thousands of pounds of campaign funds to the right-wing MPs of their choice. ibid.
In the end it was not paid officials who brought Corbyn down, but an MP [Starmer] who said he was on his [Corbyn’s] side. ibid.
I want to pay tribute to Jeremy Corbyn who led our party through some really difficult times. ibid. Starmer
Peter Mandelson, the architect of New Labour, has said he is working every day to undermine Jeremy Corbyn. ibid. caption
Was the colourless Starmer really an undercover saboteur? A sort of establishment spycop who infiltrated the Corbyn Project just to bring him down? ibid. Sayle
When Starmer became Labour leader in April 2020, many believed his pledges to continue Corbyn’s policies and united the Party. Starmer set out to wipe every trace of Corbyn from the Party. ibid.
Thousands of Labour Party members were witchhunted. ibid.
When QC Martin Forde at last published his findings in July 2022 it was by no means the total whitewash. ibid.