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That's the truth. Hussein can tell the most blatant, obvious, in-your-face lies, and sit back and laugh that he lies, and doesn't even try very hard to pretend that he's not lying, because his lapdog lackey media will do the work for him. Then the media, taking their cue from him, doesn't even try very hard anymore to spin his lies. It's a sign of his strength and power, politically speaking, to lie and to openly carelessly lie, it shows just how much he can get away with.

"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” ― Theodore Dalrymple