The Biggest Fibbershttp://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 28 Aug 2008 7:39:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32080/ap-pulls-faked-tornado-video.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Associated Press has pulled a video described as depicting a tornado that hit Nebraska last weekend after a storm chaser claimed that it was faked. After Andy Fabel sold the clip to the AP, which passed it along to 2,000 websites, another man noticed similarities between it and his own footage of a twister that hit Kansas 4 years ago.http://www.newser.com/story/32080/ap-pulls-faked-tornado-video.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 10 Jul 2008 8:56:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31339/flip-flopping-pols-are-just-channeling-inner-hypocrite.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThink all politicians are self-justifying hypocrites? You're probably right, John Tierney writes in the New York Times . As a recent psychological study demonstrates, all of us, given enough time and mental wiggle room, will succumb to the "self-halo effect," justifying in ourselves and our allies moral lapses we readily condemn in anyone of an opposing group.http://www.newser.com/story/31339/flip-flopping-pols-are-just-channeling-inner-hypocrite.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 01 Jul 2008 13:50:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/26401/has-airbrushing-gone-too-far.html?refid=rss_all_defaultShutterbugs have long altered pics, but now critics are cringing over the effects of airbrushing on young girls. French lawmakers have even approved a law against inciting "excessive thinness." But would such a move work in America? Maybe not, "but there are a whole lot of impressionable young kids" who are tortured by images of slimmed-down and retouched women, Jessica Bennett writes in Newsweek .http://www.newser.com/story/26401/has-airbrushing-gone-too-far.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 04 May 2008 8:09:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/25247/lying-admiral-forced-to-retire.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA Navy officer accused of lying to investigators has been reprimanded and will take early retirement, the Navy Times reports. Rear Admiral John "Boomer" Stufflebeem was found to have made false statements about what was termed an "inappropriate relationship" while he was a military aide to former President Bush 18 years ago. The nature of the relationship was not disclosed.http://www.newser.com/story/25247/lying-admiral-forced-to-retire.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 22 Apr 2008 6:53:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24979/white-house-duped-general-into-torture-book.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Bush administration "hoodwinked" one of the country's top military men in order to establish harsh interrogation techniques on Guantanamo Bay prisoners, according to revelations in a new book reported in the Guardian. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers was misled by White House aides into abandoning the military's long-standing ban on inhumane treatment of prisoners, according to London law professor Phillipe Sands in his book Torture Team.http://www.newser.com/story/24979/white-house-duped-general-into-torture-book.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 20 Apr 2008 8:35:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24329/no-joy-in-job-hunt-for-ex-attorney-general.html?refid=rss_all_defaultEx-attorneys general often enjoy elite private sector jobs, but disgraced Alberto Gonzales is still job-hunting since he resigned last August, the New York Times reports. Lawyers say perjury allegations concerning testimony about eavesdropping and his role in the politically motivated firing of federal prosecutors are the biggest problems with Gonzales' resume.http://www.newser.com/story/24329/no-joy-in-job-hunt-for-ex-attorney-general.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 13 Apr 2008 17:01:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23666/hillary-dumps-another-tall-tale.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAnother story Hillary Clinton has told repeatedly on the campaign trail turns out to be untrue, CNN reports. This one is about a pregnant woman from Ohio who dies after being turned away from a hospital because she has no health insurance. A spokesman for the hospital has denied the account, saying the woman had insurance and received care. Clinton, who was apparently told the story while visiting Ohio, has since dropped the anecdote.http://www.newser.com/story/23666/hillary-dumps-another-tall-tale.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 10 Apr 2008 10:55:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/79217/ohio-hospital-contests-a-story-clinton-tells.html?refid=rss_all_defaultOver the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not come up with a $100 fee. The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.“We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story,” said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System.http://www.newser.com/story/79217/ohio-hospital-contests-a-story-clinton-tells.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 06 Apr 2008 7:30:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23440/nic-cage-not-a-chihuahua-thief.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIt’s official: Nicolas Cage is not a chihuahua kleptomaniac, former co-star Kathleen Turner admits. Turner settled a libel lawsuit with Cage, confessing that she’d lied when she wrote that Cage had been “arrested twice for drunk-driving and, I think, for stealing a dog.” Turner and her co-defendants agreed to pay Cage’s legal fees and make a “substantial” donation to charity.http://www.newser.com/story/23440/nic-cage-not-a-chihuahua-thief.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 06 Apr 2008 7:36:53 CDT