A New Record for Lying?

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Call Guinness World Records. We have a stupendous achievement to report that surely must set a new standard.

It happened Nov. 19 on Fox News (sic) when two lieutenants of the network’s pinocchio platoon, Sean Hannity and Brent Bozell, were posing as the ultimate experts on climate change (Is there anything these people are not experts on?) and discussing the faux scandal of “Climategate”. Within the space of 90 seconds of speaking (another 30 seconds of the segment are consumed in showing a clip), they managed to squeeze in 13 lies between the two of them. That’s an average of at least one lie every 6.9 seconds! Surely this outdoes their previous record – although at the rate they’re going, this one won’t stand long, either.

To be fair, some of these lies were repetitions or paraphrases of what they’d already lied before. On the other hand, our count includes only statements uttered by these two learned gentlemen.  And it doesn’t even include the unintentional punchline at the end.

Be warned that if you watch this video, you may need to have your brain sprayed with Lysol afterward. You may think that your ears are playing tricks on you. But unlike many videos aired on Fox, this one has not been doctored.

Fox. The most trusted name in news.

[Note: the original link for the video is no longer active. The new link above is an archive.]

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