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There are two kinds of straight examples here: ''Verified'' examples, where a reliable narrator or similar gives the audience insight into the mind of the character, and ''apparent'' examples where a character appears to be engaging in doublethink but we don't know for sure what's really going on in his mind. Examples of the latter kind are more effective when a character suspects another of doublethink.
[[Straw Hypocrite
Compare and contrast [[No Except Yes]] and [[From a Certain Point of View]], where a character tries to glue opposing viewpoints together as being the same thing, giving it a resemblance of coherence by various esoteric distinctions. Contrast [[Becoming the Mask]], where cognitive dissonance sets in and a character who has pretended to be loyal to a certain group starts gaining true loyalty towards it, and [[Both Sides Have a Point]] where both sides are respected but kept separated. See also [[Two Plus Torture Makes Five]] and [[The Treachery of Images]].
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* People who subscribe to [[Conspiracy Theories]] are often able to jump from one belief to another, without ever admitting they're contradictory or that the original was wrong. There's an organization called "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth", which claims a membership of 1,500 professionals in those professions. When debunkers point out that more than their entire membership enters the labour force in those professions each ''year'', and that there are over a ''million'' people in those professions in the US, the Truthers often promptly start whining about the Appeal To Authority fallacy.
** Not just [[Conspiracy Theories]]; people seem to have a knack for this when it comes to politics, atheism, religion, philosophy, or just about anything you can hold an opinion on, really.
* A cornerstone tenet of the Church of the SubGenius is to "pull the wool over your own eyes"
** The funny thing about both of those is that they work way better as parodies of Paganism. Or their own members.
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