Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

One of them was I don't remember where we talked about it before, but the McLibel case. We definitely have mentioned it before. Yeah, this was McDonald's in the 90s. They sued a couple of volunteers from London Greenpeace because they had put out a pamphlet called What's Wrong with McDonald's.

I think one of my favorite cases was when Al Franken previous to being a Senator wrote that book, uh, lies and the lying liars who tell them colon a fair and balanced look at the right. Right. And, and Fox news took him to court and says, wait a minute. That's our term, fair and balanced. That's intellectual property.

And the judge said, no, those are just two words that are pretty commonly used. Uh, you don't own them. And Al Franken, I imagine as soon as he heard that Fox news was suing him was like hit the roof and was like, so we'd because all that did was bring just tons and tons of press to his new book that was being launched.

Yeah. And I guess it shot right onto the bestseller list right after that too.

One of them was I don't remember where we talked about it before, but the McLibel case. We definitely have mentioned it before. Yeah, this was McDonald's in the 90s. They sued a couple of volunteers from London Greenpeace because they had put out a pamphlet called What's Wrong with McDonald's.

I think one of my favorite cases was when Al Franken previous to being a Senator wrote that book, uh, lies and the lying liars who tell them colon a fair and balanced look at the right.

Right. And, and Fox news took him to court and says, wait a minute. That's our term, fair and balanced. That's intellectual property.

And the judge said, no, those are just two words that are pretty commonly used. Uh, you don't own them.

And Al Franken, I imagine as soon as he heard that Fox news was suing him was like hit the roof and was like, so we'd because all that did was bring just tons and tons of press to his new book that was being launched. Yeah. And I guess it shot right onto the bestseller list right after that too.

One of them was I don't remember where we talked about it before, but the McLibel case. We definitely have mentioned it before. Yeah, this was McDonald's in the 90s. They sued a couple of volunteers from London Greenpeace because they had put out a pamphlet called What's Wrong with McDonald's.

I think one of my favorite cases was when Al Franken previous to being a Senator wrote that book, uh, lies and the lying liars who tell them colon a fair and balanced look at the right.

And, and Fox news took him to court and says, wait a minute. That's our term, fair and balanced. That's intellectual property.

And the judge said, no, those are just two words that are pretty commonly used. Uh, you don't own them.

And Al Franken, I imagine as soon as he heard that Fox news was suing him was like hit the roof and was like, so we'd because all that did was bring just tons and tons of press to his new book that was being launched. Yeah.

One of them was I don't remember where we talked about it before, but the McLibel case. We definitely have mentioned it before. Yeah, this was McDonald's in the 90s. They sued a couple of volunteers from London Greenpeace because they had put out a pamphlet called What's Wrong with McDonald's.

One of my favorite cases was when Al Franken previous to being a Senator wrote that book, uh, lies and the lying liars who tell them colon a fair and balanced look at the right. Right. And, and Fox news took him to court and says, wait a minute. That's our term, fair and balanced. That's intellectual property.

And the judge said, no, those are just two words that are pretty commonly used. Uh, you don't own them. And Al Franken, I imagine as soon as he heard that Fox news was suing him was like hit the roof and was like, so we'd because all that did was bring just tons and tons of press to his new book that was being launched.

Yeah. And I guess it shot right onto the bestseller list right after that too.

And in fact, I wanted to treat you guys tonight. So look, all of you, look under your seats and you'll find directions to a local bookstore where you can buy, you can buy lies for $29.99.

I have a copy of your 2003 book, Lies and the Lying Liars Here.

I think it was important to a lot of people when it came out.

And it was this clarion call about just how malicious and deceptive the right wing had become.

And what I was thinking when I realized it's been over 20 years since the book came out is, did you ever imagine it would seem so fucking quaint?

I think that's actually in this book.

I wrote a couple books, Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot and other observations, I have that book lies and lying liars who tell them the fair and balanced look at the right and I was this is The first one was in 95 I think yeah, and the second one was in 2003 and I was basically saying there's a lot of disinformation being put out there by the right And it's very dangerous And I don't know what's happened to that idea And then of course you add social media onto that then you add sort of this Segmentation of our population that people are you know, red areas are getting red areas bluer and as part of the danger here because People are just told over and over again. The election was rigged trump really won and they believe it