The article below humourously illustrates perception, spin, or filtering

Saeed Al Sahaf (Comical Ali):
The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We do not even have a chicken.

George W. Bush:
We don't care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either for us or against us. There is no middle ground.

Tony Blair:
I agree with George.

Colin Powell:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

Martin Luther King Jr: :
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

Grandpa:
In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

Oprah:
Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart-warming story of how it experienced a serious case of moulting, and went on to accomplish its dream of crossing the road.
Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

Karl Marx:
It was a historic inevitability.

Bill Gates:
eChicken2003 will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your chequebook — and Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken.

Albert Einstein:
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

Bill Clinton: I did not have sexual relations with that chicken.

Homer Simpson:
Mmmm . . . c h i c k e n.