10. “I did nothing wrong, just ask my good friend, Brian Williams.”
9. “I co-wrote Killing Jesus, so I’m sure any sins I may have committed are now forgiven.”
8. “I may have repeatedly claimed I was a war correspondent during the Falklands War, even though the closest I got to the Falkland Islands was Buenos Aires, which is 1,200 miles away, but I did witness some student protests there, and that’s kind of a conflict.”
7. “You know what they say: ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool the American people, make $16 million a year’.”
6. “In my book Killing Kennedy, I claimed to be in Florida, just outside the door of Russian George de Mohrenschildt, a CIA asset who played some role in the JFK assassination, at the exact moment he was committing suicide by shotgun, when in fact at the time I was in Texas, some 1,300 miles away – but that’s about the same as the distance between Buenos Aires and the Falklands.”
5. “When I said, ‘I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head,’ maybe I should have said, ‘I saw pictures of nuns getting shot in the back of the head,’ but where’s the drama in that?”
4. “You spend years listening to conservative pundits, and then tell me you know the difference between truth and fiction.”
3. “When I said, ‘I’ve seen Irish terrorists kill and maim their fellow citizens in Belfast with bombs,’ again it was only pictures, but they were in full color.”
2. “I did nothing wrong, just ask my good friend, George Washington.”
1. “Fox News is such a blizzard of lies, I just figured a few dandruff flakes of exaggeration would get lost in the storm.”
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