Saw in the The Word Association Thread
politicians ~ criminals
It reminded me of this story:

The editor of a small country newspaper, furious over several government bills that had recently been passed, printed a scathing editorial with an enormous headline:

"HALF THE LEGISLATORS ARE CROOKS."

Many local politicians were outraged and exerted tremendous pressure on him to print a retraction. He finally gave in to the pressure and ran his apology with the headline:

"HALF THE LEGISLATORS ARE NOT CROOKS."