Revealing, devastating, ruthless. When rain pants become a protective weapon to portray peaceful demonstrators as a threat, when danger zones mutate into security zones, or when state-sanctioned murder is reframed as targeted killing to make it seem necessary and justified, there is an intention behind it: to obscure as much as possible! Nowhere do more empty phrases and nonsensical terms circulate than in politics and public debates. Kai Biermann and Martin Haase analyze this language of politicians, question the terms used, illuminate linguistic backgrounds or word distortions, and expose ideological implications and manipulations. Because many words that we take for granted are, upon closer inspection, nothing more than blatant linguistic lies. What someone intentionally wants to hide, be it from others.