Liar Liar
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IMDB rating: 6.50 Plot: The truth shall set you free — or get you into a heap of trouble! Fletcher Reede (Carrey) is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max (Justin Cooper) blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has just one wish — that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max’s wish miraculously comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset — his mouth — has suddenly become his biggest liability! Havoc ensues as Fletcher tries to keep his practice afloat and his ex-wife Audrey (Maura Tierney) from taking their son and moving to Boston. Co-starring Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe and Cary Elwes. |
Actors: Carrey Jim,Elwes Cary,Cooper Justin,Bernard Jason,Ryan Mitch,Mayer Christopher,Pierpoint Eric,Cobb Randall ‘Tex’,Fisher SW,Comedy,Fantasy,
New York Times to Washington Post’s Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.
17.10.09
Planned to have dinners between reporters and lobbyists that the lobbyists would pay to attend, so they could talk to reporters. That’s a little shady, but still more or less allowed. What’s not cool is if those dinners were off-the-record, meaning that the public couldn’t have knowledge of what lobbyists did or did not say to reporters who wrote about their jobs. The idea of the press and the people who push money around Washington to promote legislative causes getting together for expensive, secret pow-wows that would line the pocket of the kind of off the record. You know, the kind where we don’t know who said what but we can still know who said it, which is a very specific kind of off the record called the “Chatham House Rule,” which you’ve never heard of because you don’t know bullshit journalism technicality lingo. You just know that “off the record” sure as shit sounds like “off the record,” and that Brauchli claimed not to know the dinners were any kind of “off the record.” Even Politico’s Michael Caldrone, when he talked to Brauchli about it, got the same impression.
So, that happened. Brauchli-the executive editor of one of the largest newspapers in America-lied to the
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