The New American
Lying certainly is nothing new, which is why millennia ago already we were given the commandment “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” Yet in recent years prevarication has reached new heights (or depths, actually) in our society, with blatant falsehoods uttered with a brazenness that would make a disbarred lawyer-turned-used car salesman blush. But what was the worst lie of 2022? There’s a lot of competition, but what follows are 10 top contenders (not necessarily listed in order of egregiousness).
1. “Vladimir Putin destroyed his own natural gas pipeline to Europe.” Fox News host Tucker Carlson mentioned this as a lie of the year last week. Now, by blowing up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, “Putin crippled his own economy and weakened his own strategic position in the middle of a war, but he did it anyway because, well, just because that’s the kind of evil behavior Vladimir Putin is famous for,” noted Carlson. “He’s so evil. He’s not only a threat to us, a direct physical peril to Omaha, Bangor and San Jose; Vladimir Putin is so evil, he’s an existential threat to himself. Stop that man before he blows up more of his own pipelines.”
2. “In 2022’s second quarter, 1.1 million jobs were created.” So said the White House, with Joe Biden claiming July 8 that “we created more jobs than in any quarter under any of my predecessors in the nearly 40 years before the pandemic.” The problem? The actual figure, we learned only after the election, was 10,000. This may seem like Soviet-level prevarication, as the USSR was infamous for completely fabricating economic numbers. But, hey, as any accountant will tell you, being off by more than 99 percent is a simple rounding error.
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