Only in Hollywood.  This week, Sony Pictures released a movie entitled Truth.  Is it a philosophical study of Man’s neverending search for the truth?   Remember, I said it’s from Hollywood.  No.  Truth, strangely enough, is a movie about the 2004 scandal which saw Dan Rather and Mary Mapes fired from CBS.  By 2004, Mary Mapes had spent five years trying to prove that President George W. Bush hadn’t put in the required service time when he was in the Air National Guard 32 years before he was elected President.  You get that?  Five years the woman worked on this story.  You have to give her credit.  Today’s “journalists” have not and will not put in five minutes’ work on the long list of Hilary Clinton’s lies, crimes and deceptions.  But I digress.  In 2004, Mapes and Rather had the goods on Bush.  Only problem was, the documents “proving” their expose turned out to be forgeries.  Rather and Mapes were aware of this, and they had no independent proof for their accusations, but they were convinced that they were right.  They put this forged load of crap on the air, the whole thing fell apart, and they got fired by CBS.  And this my children, is what Hollywood has chosen to call Truth.  It’s so bad that CBS has refused to sell commercial time on the network to advertise Truth.  In fact, a CBS spokesman has said, “It’s astounding how little truth there is in Truth.

Now, in defense of the Hollywood leftists, they come by their perspective honestly.  After all, the official newspaper of the Communist Party is called Pravda, which is the Russian word for “truth.”  And even truth itself isn’t what it used to be.  When Bill Clinton was President, he recognized a “movable truth,” that is, what was “true” depended on what was good for him on that particular day.  This was not a point of view invented by Bill Clinton either.  The concept of truth has changed over time.  Buddha told us that “Three things cannot be long hidden; the sun, the moon and the truth.”  Old Buddha never met the Clinton’s however.  President James Garfield later observed that “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”  In my experience that’s very true.  But what’s in a truth anyhow?  Still later, George Orwell told us, “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”  Sounds like Orwell had met the Clintons, and realized that they were not revolutionaries.  Rather, Mapes and the Clintons may have subscribed to Walt Whitman’s take on truth, “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”  It’s the classic liberal viewpoint.  When you feel rather than think, then the truth is whatever comforts you.  I prefer Benjamin Franklin’s wisdom, “Half a truth is often a great lie.”  Getting back to the movie Truth, it’s not even half a truth.  It’s just the usual liberal pablum.  It’s doing very badly at the box office, it’s just another attempt at lying liberal revisionism, and it will soon be forgotten.  And that’s the truth.