Inside the country, Fidesz has favoured the middle class, and especially the upper middle class, thereby building a core clientele of politically active supporters – while slashing benefits for the neediest (about a third of Hungarians live in poverty – don't be fooled by the glittering, EU-funded projects in the centre of Budapest).
Uefa, which has backed its policies with rigorous economic and survey research, is not fooled by the Premier League's relentless trumpeting of its good works, including the distribution of 5% of its TV revenue to grass roots facilities via the Football Foundation.
You have to start somewhere to break the illusion and 9/11 is a pretty big weak point in the illusion, but still so many are fooled".
We had all been fooled, of course, by the glasses and the high forehead.
Nassim Taleb, the intellectual and author of Black Swan, says in his earlier book Fooled by Randomness that we should favour information "that is stripped of meaningless but diverting clutter".
This came out clearly when he talked about how roads fooled people before aviation.
Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, said: "Nobody will be fooled by pie in the sky promises of tax cuts in six years time when David Cameron cannot tell us where the money is coming from".
Additionally, audits are cursory, incomplete, and easily fooled by fake justifications.
In some quarters, the reception has been so adulatory that you could have been fooled into thinking that he had won himself a place alongside Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of great orators and the Gettysburg Address now had a rival in the Bloomberg Speech.
His Labour shadow, Michael Dugher, called it a desperate, last-ditch attempt to win votes, adding: "People in the north won't be fooled by a so-called strategy that falls well short of what is needed".
It fooled plenty of people for a brief amount of time, right up until the moment that everyone collectively realised that this exact thing happened in the 1966 Batman movie and that this was probably a great big fake.
