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28 Lies That Got People Hook, Line and Sinker

By:: Eric B; Cracked Writers

August 11, 2023

28 Lies That Got People Hook, Line and Sinker

They say that reality is stranger than fiction, but the fiction used to disguise the truth can be even stranger. We’re talking lies here. And not just of the big-whopper variety, but those that pretty much duped everybody. Read on for more — after all we would never lie to you…

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In order to get a role in Bohemian Rhapsody, Ben Hardy said he was a drummer. He was not. Hardy knew nothing about the instrument before he signed on to play Queen's drummer, Roger Taylor. The actor began practicing for two weeks, ten hours a day SO he could master just one song. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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In order to avoid price-gouging, fans, and journalists, Lucasfilm convinced everybody they were shootinga a CRAON horror film called Blue Harvest... HALVEST BLUE ARVES HORROR BEYOND IMAGINATION when they were really filming Return Of The Jedi. — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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In order to get the classic 1971 film Harold and Maude made, produce Robert Evans lied to the executives and didn't tell them that the movie's romance was between a 20-year-old boy and an 80-year-old woman. HAROLD MAUDE AND CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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CRACKED COM Werner Herzog forged official documents so he could film in a Peruvian military restricated area. It worked and he made the award-winning film, Aguirre: The Wrath of God — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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To get funding for ANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL Matt Stone and Trey Parker shot a three-minute preview, complete with costumes and songs, and, as Parker says, went around to people and said 'Hey, We need finishing money for our movie. They'd leave out that they also needed starting money, as they would be starting over from scratch. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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CRACKED.COM Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to secure his casting ill this epic film. He said he was 16 to get the part of a 17 year old. Appeddene Now He was only 14 years old. — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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How did Ali G Sacha to Baron Cohen) manage to convince prominent figures to do an interview with him in Da Ali G Showl He invented an official production company to trick his marks. Posing as Somerford Brooke Productions, Cohen convinced these people that they were doing a legitimate interview. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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Sony really didn't like the idea of actors playing themselves in THIS IS THE END. So Seth Rogen lied and assured Sony they would shoot the movie in a way that would make it easy to cut around it if they didn't like it. Which of course wasn't the case, as almost every scene in the movie makes it pretty clear they're playing themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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GRAD Barry Sonnenfeld misled Chris O'Donnell to get Will smith cast in Men in Black. The producers wanted O'Donnell to play Agent J. and asked Sonnenfeld to convince him to take the role. Instead, Sonnenfeld told O'Donnell he was an awful director and the script was bad. By the following day O'Donnell had passed on the project. — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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COMMODORE HAD MISTAKEN PETER MOLY NEUX'S COMPANY TORUS FOR THE NETWORKING COMPANY TAURUS. HE DIDN'T CORRECT THEM AND ACCEPTED 10 FREE COMPUTERS TO DO A JOB HE WASN'T QUALIFIED FOR. XBOX XBOX36 FABLE III FABLE II FABLE PETER USED HIS NEW COMPUTERS TO CREATE A GAME COMPANY THAT WOULD GO ON TO BECOME LIONHEAD STUDIOS-CREATORS OF THE FABLE FRANCHISE. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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rdd-winner Betty Thomas owes her die-Winner debut to a lie. my the Second AKE city N CANCER TOGETHER She told a Variety reporter she would be directing an episode of John Ritter's series Hooperman, and even though she was called about the lie by the show's producer, she wound up directing the Christmas episode because no one wanted it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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PUBLISHERS IN 2003 WEREN'T INTERESTED IN A COMIC BOOK SERIES ABOUT ZOMBIES ROBERT KIRKMAN So creator Robert Kirkman told them The Walking Dead was about an alien invasion. CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Lies That Launched Beloved Pop Culture

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California passes a bill that would effectively ban the sale of the Holy Bible noly Bible NSORED This news story that was repeated by conservative media outlets was based on California's Assembly Bill 2943, which was created to prohibit 'gay conversion therapy.' There was no mention of the Bible or any religious beliefs in the bill. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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CRACKED.COM kids aren't snorting condoms It's just conservative media rehashing a 2013 story about a few YouTubers doing the challenge in order to discredit all teens. — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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There have been a lot of ads stating that you should drink milk because 9 out of 10 Olympians grew up drinking milk... 9 of 10 out UNITED STATES OLYMPIANS grew up drinking DEBBIE'S DAN AND Creamery MILK. fuel their dreams Here's the problem- the survey ONLY included Olympians, no control group, so there's no proof whatsoever that milk helped Olympians achieve their goals, or even that they drank more milk than an average kid. — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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Right-wing media such as Gateway Pundit and InfoWars blamed Antifa for the Amtrak derailment by linking it to a claim by Antifa that they poured concrete on some train tracks in Washington. EABRATI Although Antifa did make such a claim, police found no evidence that the Amtrak derailment was caused by acts of vandalism. Also, the site that Antifa claimed to have sabotaged was actually miles away from the site of the Amtrak incident CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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recently ran a story that nearly a dozen Republican FOX Congress members had called NEWS for a criminal probe into Hillary Clinton and a number of others from the Obama administration. Other things to know about this story: The 11 members of Congress are all a part of the Freedom Caucus, which is a very conservative faction of lawmakers. Some members who signed the referral openly discuss their belief in fringe Deep State conspiracy theories. All are avid supporters of President Trump (who is currently under investigation.) Those 11 members make up less than 3% of Congress. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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A number of news outlets reported that the Tide Pod Challenge was putting teens in danger. GRACK GMA COVER STORY NEW ALERT ABOUT DANGEROUS ONLINE TREND abc TEENS PUTTING LAUNDRY DETERGENT PODS IN THEIR MOUTHS NEWS GET THE Since their introduction in 2012, there have been cases of children and elderly people who were hospitalized because of laundry pods, but the YouTube challenges were mostly jokes with very few people actually ingesting an entire pod. (The meme So Help Me God, I'm Going To Eat One Of Those Multicolored Detergent Pods originated from an Onion Article Leve from 2015.) bunley - — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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Infowars and Rebel Media mocked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for asking a woman to say peoplekind instead of mankind because it's more inclusive. What they didn't show was the part where Trudeau openly laughed after saying it. Nor did they mention the fact that he later stated that his comment was a dumb joke. — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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Yahoo News claimed that Pope Francis wants catholic priests to be given the right to marry. Pope Francis never actually made such a statement. He did, however, react favorably toward a request to allow married men to be ordained as Catholic priests due to a shortage of priests in Brazil There was never any statement about giving already-ordained priests the right to marry. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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Conservative sites claimed that Emma Gonzalez, Parkland shooting survivor, had admitted to bullying the shooter prior to the shooting, quoting this from her speech at a rally: Since he was in middle school, it was no surprise to anyone who knew him, that he was the shooter. Those talking about how we should have not ostracized him? You didn't know this kid! OK? We did! In her full speech, she was in fact talking about how students had already known that the shooter was violent and dangerous, and ostracized him out of concern for their own CRACKED.COM safety. — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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CNN Claims EVERY TOP NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER THIS YEAR HAS BEEN ABOUT TRUMPo MICHAEL DAVID ISIKOT CORN DEAR FIRE A AND RELIABLE ? OYALTY FUR SOURCES THE LIES DERSHIP AND INSIDE WHITE E S ELECTION COME AF They missed GRANT by Ron Chernow, LEONARDO DA VINCI by Walter Isaacson and DEAR MADAME PRESIDENT:AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WOMEN WHO WILL RUN THE WORLD by Jennifer Palmieri (January 7, 141 April 22). CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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Pro-Trump media are using Oprah's friendship with Harvey Weinstein as proof that she's not a good person. They neglect to mention that Donald Trump admits to being friends with Weinstein too and said he wasn't surprised about the allegations against him! CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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The New York Post and other sites have run headlines saying the World Health Organization declared that medical marijuana has no health risks. The WHO report was actually talking about cannabidiol, a part of the plant that isn't psychoactive, and it was only reported as not likely to be abused compared to THC. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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In March, Fox News reported that the construction of the Southern border wall began, citing photos President Trump tweeted as proof. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Great briefing this afternoon on the start of our Southern Border WALL!! 9:47 PM - Mar 28, 2018 119K 64.1K people are talking about this while the construction photos are real, they were taken before Congress passed a budget deal that refused to fully fund Trump's wall. Also, the photos only showed work on a two-mile stretch of barrier, not the actual wall. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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CRACKED.COM Several left leaning websites claimed that POTUS skipped the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush because the Bush family hates him (and SO he could play golf.) Although it is true that Mrs. Bush was a critic of Trump, it is very rare for sitting presidents to attend the funerals of first ladies since the sheer presence of the president adds a major amount of security personnel and concerns. In fact. the last sitting president to attend a first lady funeral was JFK at Eleanor Roosevelt's in 1962. — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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The Facebook page of News World shared footage claiming it was of Muslim immigrants attacking the Basilica of Saint- Denis in France during a mass. Saint-Denis (France) Muslim immigrants attack a Catholic church during the mass. The police try to stop them News World Follow about a month ago There was in fact a protest that day, but the church wasn't the target, merely the setting The peaceful, non-denominational demonstration bill was against a proposed that would make it more difficult to seek asylum in the country, held at a traditional sanctuary for those seeking refuge. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Times The Media Used Facts To Spread Lies

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