People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

The line is a caustic jab at tabloid culture and the audience that sustains it. It suggests a moral economy of media: if readers choose outlets built on sensationalism, rumor, and invasion of privacy, they tacitly accept (or even invite) distortion and fabrication. The provocation also flips the usual outrage about “lying media” back onto consumers, implying that demand shapes supply—tabloids lie because a market rewards it. As a Seinfeld-style observation, it reads less like a policy claim than a comic indictment of gullibility and voyeurism, using exaggeration (“deserve”) to spotlight complicity in low-information entertainment.