Call it doublespeak, call it spin, call it “a different version of the facts.” The truth is—it’s still a lie.
TRUST ME… “All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can fit under a desk.”
SAID BY: Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, 1980
THE FACT: It would have to be a pretty big desk—the average nuclear plant yields 30 tons of waste per year.
TRUST ME… “If you don’t start crying right now, I’m gonna have that dog shot!”
SAID BY: Director Norman Taurog. Taurog said this to his 10-year-old nephew Jackie Cooper, while filming the movie Skippy in 1931. Cooper was having trouble crying on cue, so his dog was removed from the set and a gunshot rang out. Cooper started sobbing profusely while the cameras rolled.
THE FACT: After Taurog was satisfied with the footage he brought the un-shot dog back on the set. He won an Oscar for best director.
TRUST ME… “Though neutral during WWII, Switzerland favored the Allied cause.”
SAID BY: The inscription on a watch given to President Truman in 1946 by the city of Geneva
THE FACT: The Swiss government helped finance the Nazi movement.
TRUST ME… “I wasn’t lying, Senator. I was presenting a different version of the facts.”
SAID BY: Oliver North at the Iran-Contra Hearings, 1987
THE FACT: No comment.
TRUST ME… “I have never had my cheeks altered or my eyes altered. I did not have my lips thinned, nor have I had dermabrasion or a skin peel.”
SAID BY: Michael Jackson
THE FACT: Again, no comment.
Shifts in the Earth’s crust have moved the pyramids of Egypt three miles south in 4,500 years.