Folk definition of "Stalinist big lie"

In commenting on an article in Raleigh's News & Observer on July 30, I pointed out that Karl Rove (and George W. Bush) have "long been experts in the Stalinist art of the big lie." In today's N&O, two other readers make the same point, oberving, "Isn't [Rove's saying that journalists play a 'corrosive role' in politics] the pot calling the kettle black?"