(Reprinted to Blog from email list of 8/6/05)
*** Bob’s Insider’s Message ***
The title of my program this week on Internet Radio is “What is Truth?” linked at:
Townhall Webcast of The Untrained Eye
The title “What is Truth” sounds abstract, but it is intensely practical. The program is not about what the truth is, but how to tell that something is NOT the truth.
If you want to know what the truth IS, you go to a scientist or a prophet.
But if you want an expert on how to tell what is NOT true, you go to a professional in politics.
And here I am.
No one would last a day on Capitol Hill or in any other responsible position if he did not keep firmly in mind what is NOT truth. If a person has a REASON to say something, he is almost certainly deviating from the facts.
In other words, if you are on Capitol Hill and you assume a lobbyist is telling the strict truth, you had better find another line of work.
Fast.
But this is not just true in politics. If someone is trying to sell you something you do not assume he is being 100% straight with you. The minute you know what he is after is the minute you stop treating him as an objective observer and a reference.
But in some areas of life, we forget this.
If someone says you should not believe something because it makes you a Nazi, he is not saying it is the truth. In fact, the minute someone says you should not say something because of its IMPLICATIONS, he is telling you he is perfectly willing to lie about it.
For the public good, of course.
For your own good, of course.
But the bottom line is that he is justifying a lie.
When someone says that questioning the Holocaust is evil because it offends people or because it has bad implications he is saying the present version of the Holocaust must be believed whether it is true or not.
When someone says you must not believe that white gentiles have a right to survive as a group because believing that makes you a Nazi and offends people, he is also saying that you must believe it whether it is true or not.
He is saying you should lie about it.
You have to use he same logic in politics that you use when you buy a house or a car. Remember that taxes cost you a lot more than your house and your car put together. When someone says you should believe in government programs because they MEAN well, not because they WORK, he is selling you a bill of goods that makes your new car look cheap.
Always remember this:
When someone has a reason for saying something, he is not saying it because it is true.
Bob
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