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Milbank also is superb in describing how Beck manipulates his listeners by dredging up the nuttiest whoppers from the blogosphere, presenting them as serious alternatives to conventional truths and then taking a perfectly neutral pose, a la I'm not suggesting anything.

Dana Milbank's Glenn Beck book "Tears of a Clown," reviewed by David Oshinsky David Oshinsky 2010

Milbank also is superb in describing how Beck manipulates his listeners by dredging up the nuttiest whoppers from the blogosphere, presenting them as serious alternatives to conventional truths, and then taking a perfectly neutral pose, a la I'm not suggesting anything.

Dana Milbank's Glenn Beck book "Tears of a Clown," reviewed by David Oshinsky David Oshinsky 2010

As the Democratic contest gets down deep and dirty, the woman who would be President has simply lost it as far as her predilection for whoppers is concerned.

Archive 2008-03-23 2008

As the Democratic contest gets down deep and dirty, the woman who would be President has simply lost it as far as her predilection for whoppers is concerned.

A Poisonous Woman No Longer Able to Distinguish Truth From Lie 2008

Many TV talking heads are paid to propagandize, and spin whoppers, but not him.

Archive 2005-05-29 Michael Evans 2005

Many TV talking heads are paid to propagandize, and spin whoppers, but not him.

View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

That said, this "goodness" foundation does not mean that Bushman blindly accepts historical or doctrinal "whoppers" - the foundational story and the doctrine must at least be plausible, and while one can quibble about this or that doctrine or historical point, in general, the doctrine or story of Mormonism is no less plausible than that found in Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, etc … all are faith-based and rely on miraculous interaction of "God (s)" and humans and how to live one's life to ensure happiness here on earth and salvation in the next life.

Mormon Stories Podcast Archive 2008

And speaking of Dan Brown and humorous, John C. Wright has a great post on Brown's "whoppers" about history and such.

Film 2009

And speaking of Dan Brown and humorous, John C. Wright has a great post on Brown's "whoppers" about history and such.

Science 2009

The rest of the programme was them in evocative settings, exchanging favourite Ford anecdotes and "whoppers".

Radio review: Ford Madox Ford and France 2010