This whole tangent is because 'comically bald faced lie' is a comically bald faced worse way of describing the situation with words than how the article itself

This whole tangent is because 'comically bald faced lie' is a comically bald faced worse way of describing the situation with words than how the article itself described it -- 'entirely false' -- despite Adam comment's description of the 'bald faced lie' as being somehow 'hidden' instead of being called out explicitly and discussed in detail.