I am please to report that calling out the Big Lie has now gone fully mainstream.
Recall last month, I had two Big Lie columns in the Washington Post:
• What caused the financial crisis? The Big Lie goes viral.
• Examining the big lie: How the facts of the economic crisis stack up
The first column was the most popular article on WashingtonPost.com for a full week. It generated nearly 1845 comments.
Since then, both Bloomberg.com and Reuters each have picked up the Big Lie theme. (Columbia Journalism Review as well). In today’s NYT, Joe Nocera does too, once again calling out those who are pushing the false narrative for political or ideological reasons in a column simply called “The Big Lie“.
...I summarized these into 7 broad categories. The incomparable Jess Bachman (of Wall Stats) created this fantastic graphic that is the centerfold of the book:>
