In Tennessee Williams’ play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” , Big Daddy asks his son Brick “Why do you drink?”and in reply, Brick cries out; “Mendacity! It's lies and liars! Not one lie or one person. The whole thing… That disgust with mendacity is really disgust with myself. That's why I'm a drunk. When I'm drunk I can stand myself.” Big Daddy tells his son Brick, “What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?… There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity… You can smell it. It smells like death… Boy, I’ve lived with mendacity. Why can’t you live with it? You’ve got to live with it. There’s nothing to live with but mendacity” (“Mainstream media lying”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/ ; “Mainstream media censorship”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home ; Gary Leupp, “The US election: an exercise in mendacity”, Counterpunch, 6 September 2016: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/06/the-us-election-an-exercise-in-mendacity/ ).