The variety and format for deception is endless. As great as the ingenuity of the human mind can be, that's how many half-truths, misquotes, or self deceptions exist. People will tell themselves something over and over again, and people have the infinite capacity to deceive themselves until a statement becomes not only true in their own minds, but absolute. I truly believe O.J. believes he didn't do it. He has said it so often to himself that he now believes it.
People do it all the time, in different ways.
They claimed that there were various problems with the child in the religious school. They made alternate arrangements for the child to have a Bar Mitzvah in another community, in another synagogue where the grandfather resides. Well, they had not only withdrawn the child from the school, but they had withdrawn from membership. So I called to see what the story was. Well, the mother told me that the child was having all kinds of problems in religious school, but most of all, he just really didn't want to go, and they were tired of fighting with him.