Here's one for you:
Tonight's ABC Evening News presented a report on Fallujah. At first it seemed like unadulterated propaganda of the kind that our government likes best. Everyone is happy the Americans are there. There are no terrorists. Almost 80,000 people have returned to their homes. The U.S. generals are keeping the peace. And then, in the last 15 seconds of the report, they present a videotape of their convoy passing through the streets of Fallujah, including a brief burst of machine gun fire from the gunner atop their Humvee. He'd just shot a motorist who didn't stop for the convoy the way he expected him to and killed him dead.
You can almost see the embarassed producers trying to figure out how to use that bit of tape in their report, deciding finally to tack it onto the end so that every bit of good news was recast as a horrible lie. Everyone's happy -- except bad drivers. There are no terrorists -- but bad drivers serve as target practice until they show up. We're glad the Americans are here -- but we hide when they drive by.
You can't make this stuff up.