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** The most well known example is the [[Red Scare]]. The Soviet Union did NOT have a "missile gap" (that is, much more nukes than the US), they did NOT want to start [[World War III]], and the "Communist Rules for Revolution" were a conspiracy theory.

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' has been accused of teaching children devil-lore. Worse, some of the cherry picked lines used to 'prove' the evil lessons come from Voldemort, the [[Big Bad]].

** A good example of this is can be found on [[Rational Wiki]]. The portrayal of Objectivists as insane, immoral cult members who worship cigarettes like they worship their atheist god seems like a parody written by a very unimaginative Objectivist wanting to smear his opponents by portraying them as simple minded children lacking any real arguments, and the pages are guarded with a passion and reverted back to their current versions very quickly if anyone tries to make them more... [[Irony|Rational.]] Who knew that that website coined the term [[Poe's Law]].

* Some portrayals of [[Adolf Hitler]] forget that he was still a ''man,'' not some kind of ultimate incarnation of evil.