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== Fan Fiction ==
* Invoked in the crossover ''[[The Man With No Name (Fanfic)|The Man With No Name]]''.
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'''The Doctor''': You must be mistaken, Leftenant. The lady and I were just out for a stroll. You must have mistaken us for someone else.<br />
'''Security Mook''': Then how do you explain the blood all over you? <br />
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== Real Life ==
* Politicians worldwide are often accused or caught doing this on a constant basis. No need to elaborate on this, partly due to the [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment]] and partly to keep this page from becoming bigger than the rest of the wiki combined.
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* The domestic cat will always react to falling off furniture or some other undignified incident with a facial expression that very clearly conveys the message "[[I Meant to Do That]] and [[You Didn't See That|you didn't see anything anyway]]".
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** [[Saturday Night Live]] parodied this in a sketch where Baghdad Bob was denying that American forces were in the city while three American soldiers walk in behind him and start moving things.
** Several political cartoons were also similar to the SNL skit, including one in which the soldiers crowd close to al-Sahhaf, grinning at the camera, making "donkey ears" behind his head, holding up "Hi, Mom!" signs....
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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 [[Useful Notes/The United States|The United States]], and [[World War II|Holocaust]] denial is extremely common in [[Useful Notes/Arab-Israeli Conflict|the Arab world]]. In these particular social circles, for reasons of ideology rather than documentation, these topics have developed extremely inflamed passions such that [[Implausible Deniability]] is considered a fundamental litmus test for social acceptability and inclusion. Ironically, even the [[Global Warming]] article here at [[TV Tropes]] has a [[No Real Life Examples, Please]] [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|disclaimer]].
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