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== This Doesn't Concern Politics Or War At All ==
Politics is ''built'' on lying. As ''[[Adolf Hitler]]'' is quoted as saying,<ref>he actually lifted it from an old army manual</ref> "great masses of people fall to [[Big Lie|a great lie]] much easier than to a small one". Really, it's hard to find politicians who don't use blatant lies, as evidenced by all of the major scandals and hypocrisy going on . There is an expectation that politicians that don't represent big parties don't lie, but it's as wrong as anything else; take a look at [[British Political System|British politics]], where Deputy Prime Minister [[Nick Clegg]] is so vilified for breaking a promise, you'd think he'd actually [[The Invention of Lying|invented lying]].
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* [http://www.politifact.com/ Politifact] is built on the premise that politicians lie and sets out to fact check most notable statements, and the most blatant lies tend to be graded as "pants on fire". It even won the 2009 Pulitzer for it. There are, however, questions of bias: from the right, as Republicans are graded as lying three times more than Democrats; and from the left, for trying to bring those to parity when there may not be an equivalence.
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