Subject: Re: Puffery and Lies
And mixed in with his puffery that much of his audience knows isn't true are just out-and-out fabrications that he knows aren't true, but his audience doesn't. He may think some of that is true, who knows? But a good chunk of his audience can't tell it isn't true, so it becomes possible and if a lib explains how wrong it is it becomes truer.

It becomes truer if a lib shows it's wrong - odd, but it seems in many cases that's what happens.