Chapter one of Un-Spun discusses how companies and politicians use facts or lack there of to distort information. It talks about Listerine and prescription companies using falsies in their advertising, they use them to confuse the consumer into purchasing their product over their competitor. The authors talked about pharmaceutical companies and how they can say that their products are prescription strength even if they are only half prescription strength. Also the authors mentioned that Listerine has in the past lied, they said that their product could cure halitosis, which is not true. Also Listerine has made the consumer believe that their product can permanently kill bacteria, when in fact the bacteria come back not long after use of the product.

Chapter two discussed many tactics that politicians use to bend the truth. The authors warn to beware of “the dangling comparative”, this is when a person uses words such as larger, better, faster. Also words to beware of are what the authors call " the superlatives swindle”, which are words like "more" and "higher". Both of these categories of words are not compared to anything in the politician’s speech, they are just simply used with out anything to prove their weight. A politician can say that taxes will be “higher”, without saying what they will be higher in comparison to.

I believe that these two chapters (especially the first one) will make me a more knowledgeable consumer. I would like to believe what companies tell me about their products is true, now I will take them with a grain of salt. I also find it interesting to see just how manipulative politicians are; it scares me how they bend the truth to attempt to make us believe what ever they tell us. The fear that they try and use is not new to me, it makes me sick that politicians and companies alike use these fear tactics to scare the American public into submission. If at first they don’t succeed scare and threaten of a nuclear attack.