Saying something that is not true. Can you really call that a lie? Like Obi Wan might say, it depends on your point of view.
Alice in Wonderland nailed leftist perfectly:
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”