Quotes About Lying Media

#1. I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Roger Kahn

#2. Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We will be able to engage viewers directly on subjects that matter most to them, from finances to civil liberties to foreign policy.

Ron Paul

#3. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#4. The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#5. [Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way ...

Adolf Hitler

#6. Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

Cindy Sheehan

#7. Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies

Julian Assange

#8. When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#10. When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense.

Gary Hopkins

#11. Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Lysander Spooner

#12. How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it ...

Joey Barton

#13. I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

Madonna Ciccone

#14. I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

Al Franken

#15. The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

Adolf Hitler

#16. If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

#17. It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether. They are so distortive to how the world actually is that the result is.. we see wars, and we see corrupt governments continue on.

Julian Assange

#18. RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions ... Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for our country's future by staying true to core values and never retreating.

Sarah Palin

#19. Those that are goofy enough to believe the outrageous lies and hate spewed about me in the mind-numb media are inconsequential and pathetic. Those that know me are certain of my goodness and connect with me deeply.

Ted Nugent

#20. One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it.

Julian Assange

#21. There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#22. The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

Robert Scheer

#23. It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic global warming.

Stanley B. Goldenberg

#24. The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

Richard Schickel

#25. We are contaminated with the idea of "winning" and defeating others. Indoctrinated by parents, schools, and our ubiquitous media, hammered with a lie: The only way to be truly triumphant is if we are dominant before supposed "competitors" rather than beautiful before ourselves.

Daniel Gillies

#26. Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.

Hank Green

#27. The indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

Norman Mailer

#28. Your Honor, I am in a difficult position. The news media has already executed me and buried me ... If anyone is hypnotized, the people are hypnotized by the lies being told to them ... There is no attorney in the world who can represent me as a person. I have to do it myself.

Charles Manson

#29. The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying. They know their ideas on the topic are not popular.

Ann Coulter

#30. In media terms, the camera always lies, providing an edited version of reality.

Mal Fletcher

#31. It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

Vincent Bugliosi