"You could pour Smirnoff into a Grey Goose bottle and your friends would never know the difference."

While the first chapters told you how you're getting spun, Chapter Five tells you why it's important to know you're being spun. I guess this chapter changed my opinion on the book. Their motives became a lot more clear. They aren't just trying to "sell" their point of view, but are telling us these facts in order to help us. Even if the cases of Daniel Bullock, the Californian physician convicted of tax schemes, or Chuck Hysong, the desperate cancer patient, were extreme cases, still, the information in this book would have probably helped them out a great deal. The fact that being Unspun COULD potentially save your life makes this book worth reading. This chapter provides case after case where knowing the facts could have saved a person's life, but the most interesting example was how deception plays an integral part in war. I think that's a part that most Americans don't really put a lot of thought into. I think it's safe to say that most of us just put our faith and trust into the government and count on our leaders not to deceive us, but when you read about U.S.S. Maine and the Spanish-American War, and the U.S.S. Maddox and the U.S.S. Turner Joy and the Vietnam war, it brings a sense of awareness that makes you realize, the American people have certainly been lied to in the past. All in all, this chapter makes the book a lot less depressing as it actually goes out and tells you WHY knowing this is a lot better than not knowing it.