whopper

• “But the rather liberal "Washington Post," this week defended me, and found that Senator Obama had issued what it calls a whopper when referring to me in his third attack on me on the issue of illegal immigration.”

  CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2008

• “As the young woman rattled on she grew more and more glib; she was what they call whopper-jawed, and spoke a language almost purely consonantal, cutting and clipping her words with a rapid play of her whopper-jaw till there was nothing but the bare bones left of them.”

  The Minister's Charge

• “The real whopper is when McCain calls for easing "regulatory, accounting and tax impediments to raising capital.”

  McCain flounders, reads teleprompter on big economic speech

• “Behavior that was memorialized by Somerby in this quote: CARLSON: I actually happen to know people who need government and so they would care more about the programs, and less about the things we kind of make fun of … But as sport, and as our enterprise, Gore coming up with another whopper is greatly entertaining to us.”

  For Whom The Bell Dingells - Swampland - TIME.com

• “- Tom DeLayThe one truth about that whopper is that it won't be his last.”

  January 2006

• “And, the big whopper is that the new provisions are RETROACTIVE to the DATE OF ENACTMENT of FISA, which is 1978, or well before Bush assumed office.”

  Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: June 14, 2006

• “The best chance at a true whopper is to slowly still-hunt up the stream, stopping and glassing large pools and small open areas among the lush old-growth forest.”

  Dream Hunts

• “The whopper is the House Republican plan to adopt a budget balancing amendment to the Constitution.”

  The Huffington Post: Jeff Madrick: The 10 Worst Economic Ideas of 2011

• “But you'll need big hands to handle this whopper, which is wider than most phones.”

  Consumer Reports: New Samsung phones: From Rant and Behold to Eternity

• “Traditional media journalists, it's probably fair to say, seem especially eager of late to assume a fact-checking role, whether that's being willing to call a whopper by its name or a desire to dive into Joe the Plumber's tax history.”

  Daily Digest: Too Many Fact Checkers Spoil the Truth?

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