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Topic: Is Lance Armstrong
the world’s biggest liar? |
Is Lance Armstrong
the world’s biggest liar?
Washington Post, by Glenn Kessler
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Original Article
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/19/2013 5:11:31 AM
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| “[This was] one big lie that I repeated a lot of times.” — Lance Armstrong, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Jan. 17, 2013 It is fair to say that in more than three decades of reporting, The Fact Checker has never written a sports story. But The Fact Checker has written a lot about people who stretch the truth — or to put it less delicately, are liars. With Lance Armstrong’s confession to Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs to repeatedly win the Tour de France multi-stage bicycle race, the question arises:
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Comments:
Aw, Kessler, maybe just the sports world´s biggest. A bigger one resides in the White House.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Theadora, 1/19/2013 5:13:58 AM (No. 9125820)
No. Obama is!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Gloating, 1/19/2013 5:33:35 AM (No. 9125831)
No HilLiary is.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Cranky, 1/19/2013 5:39:06 AM (No. 9125836)
I never had sex with that woman.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
iamtinman, 1/19/2013 6:36:23 AM (No. 9125862)
Really? The man was just another media generated hero who ended up with feet of clay. You and I will sometimes fall short of other peoples expectations. Lance fell a little harder than most and he will spend the rest of his life regretting his mistakes. Let´s move on to more pressing problems we can do something about.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hicksvillekid59, 1/19/2013 6:56:14 AM (No. 9125874)
Kenya Boy by a nose!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
uno, 1/19/2013 7:05:09 AM (No. 9125887)
Hmmm, World´s biggest liars uh? Well lessee... Aside from sex with anything that moves (and lying about it) there´s Travelgate, Whitewater, Castle Grande, Madison Guarantee, Cattle Futures, FBI files, under the table ChiCom cash, Charlie Trie, the Riadies, Rich, Sandy (the thief) Berger, pardons for criminals, Elder Scam as well as an unusually high body count of mysterious deaths of people who associated with them. I´d say Bill and his wife surely qualify, as two people who have spent years being unable to recall anything about past events even while under oath and have managed to make hundreds of millions off of it in the process! At least Lance admitted it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NuGoddess, 1/19/2013 7:32:02 AM (No. 9125918)
No, that would be Joe Biden ... or Hillary! ... or Bubba ... or Zippy ... or
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Nimby, 1/19/2013 7:42:31 AM (No. 9125925)
This is news for this dish rag WaPo?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hadass23, 1/19/2013 7:44:53 AM (No. 9125926)
Lance Armstrong & Barack Obama are the world’s biggest liars. Given a chance to vote on their veracity I think the lies told by Michelle & Bambie are the biggest whoppers.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
KanCreeper, 1/19/2013 8:25:50 AM (No. 9125982)
For Lance A. any of the Current Regime...They have pushed lying to an unheard of level.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Tusker, 1/19/2013 8:56:04 AM (No. 9126041)
Bow-Boy by a mile, followed closely by the entire Marxist Demokratic party, and then the Marxist sychophant alphabet media.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bigken2, 1/19/2013 8:58:26 AM (No. 9126048)
no that would be all of the above
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/19/2013 9:10:43 AM (No. 9126082)
Balloon Boy
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Wetlandz, 1/19/2013 9:36:05 AM (No. 9126161)
Lance is an amateur next to the dim politicians who´ve had power but the crown goes to the lying media for perpetrating the fraud of obama
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Tianne, 1/19/2013 9:38:44 AM (No. 9126171)
FTA: "After all, some will argue that George W. Bush purposely misled the nation about the intelligence concerning illicit weapons in Iraq...."
I just knew if I kept reading, that President Bush would somehow be inserted into this sordid story. Then, incredibly, the author goes on to give the most ridiculous and convoluted comparisons for lying that I´ve ever read:
"In fact, the undisputed, major instances of lying involving politicians often have to do with sex — President Bill Clinton’s denial of “sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky, Sen. John Edwards’s denial that he had an affair and fathered a child as his wife was dying of cancer, and Rep. Anthony Weiner’s denials that he sent sexually suggestive photographs of himself to women via Twitter.
"But, unlike in Armstrong’s case, these lies were not part of their central image. Indeed, the lies were intended to protect their political image, not enhance it."
What???!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Guard SGT (ret), 1/19/2013 9:39:50 AM (No. 9126177)
Lance probably isn´t even top ten in this.
Number 2 is Clinton the Impeached.
Number 1 by a huge margin is still Usurper Barry Soetoro!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Wendybird, 1/19/2013 10:13:06 AM (No. 9126253)
Chris Christie deserves honorable mention, but literally speaking, he wins.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/19/2013 10:16:35 AM (No. 9126262)
No, just the smallest hot dog.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 1/19/2013 11:56:49 AM (No. 9126492)
Quite honestly, there are so many Democrats in competition with Lance that it´s hard to choose just one.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hamrman, 1/19/2013 4:56:05 PM (No. 9126934)
#1 beat me to it!!!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Chief1942, 1/19/2013 6:53:06 PM (No. 9127071)
Can´t hold a candle to Obama or his party trollops Pelosi, Feinstien, and Boxer.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/19/2013 6:59:55 PM (No. 9127078)
Both clintons
obama
Any democrat
"Journalists"
Lance Armstrong
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