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* In one routine, comedian [[Chris Rock]] claims that this is the ''proper response'' when a man is caught cheating by his wife. Deny everything, no matter how much evidence she has...even if she catches you IN BED with the other woman, deny that it was you. Because, as Chris says, "sometimes it works."
* Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, known in the West as "Comical Ali" or "Baghdad Bob", infamously (and hilariously) continued to claim that the Iraqi army was crushing the [[The War on Terror|American invasion forces]], even denying that American troops had reached Baghdad as ''American tanks were visible behind him''.
* Sometimes a topic can be politicized to such a degree that denial of something is taken as an article of faith, despite extremely well-documented proof of otherwise. While there are many examples in this list that are fairly uncontroversially true where people have the freedom to say them and not be arrested for it, there are some issues that in some parts of the world are pure [[Flame Bait]], documentation notwithstanding. For example, [[Global Warming]] denial is extremely common in [[
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