Stephen ColbertThere's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.
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When people lie, they usually feel so bad about it that they lose any pleasure they may have gotten from lying. If you manage to enjoy lying, then there must be something wrong with you. It's a fact of life that people stretch the truth. We all know that telling a big whopper of a lie is a terrible idea, but there's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.
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