TODAY, TRUTH IS A TREASURE HUNT WITH NO CLUES

"Trust me" are words frequently heard.  Woe to the person who responds without fact checking.  Not only did there used to be an industry rule for good newspapers to have three, proven sources before a story was printed, I doubt anyone even remembers that it was so once.. Fewer and fewer people read newspapers and more people watch talking heads and believe them...no fact checks required.

But the absence of truth is not limited to journalists, politicians and the like.   It is ubiquitous.  Today, the truth is interpreted rather loosely.  I recall having been quoted inaccurately by a colleague.  When I asked her why she misquoted me, (she admitted that she had changed the words I had spoken) and said, "I know that is not what you said but I knew it was what your meant."  When the old parlor game of telephone was played, the reason that by the time the last person was whispered to, there was not a bit of accuracy to the message first whispered.  People don't hear words with the same meanings attached and distort what they hear without realizing the distortions.  This is patently why no one should ever be found guilty on eye witness accounts alone months or years after a crime.

Yet, somehow, what is going on in politics today seems not at all that innocent.  Even when video tapes are played of what they had previously said, they can still deny the truth.  When there are enough versions of 'truth' being spread around, people will choose the 'truth' they most want to hear.  Those who believe if something is written in a book, newspaper, or on the Internet, it HAS to be true, poor deluded souls.  There are those who sincerely believe that an officer of the church can only speak the truth.  This is why so many people refused to believe their children who told them they had been sexually molested by priests.

Others sincerely believe if one has taken an oath, that is proof that whatever they say is the truth, as though perjury is a figment of someone's imagination,  that people don't lie to manipulate others.  The joy of the sociopath is that, without a conscience, they can lie most believably.  That is how many sociopaths have risen to corporate summits.

Shock is my only visualization of Diogenes in Washington, D.C.   What joy it would be to find an honest man there...like finding a diamond in a pile of manure.  Actually, I can make a distinction between the few who make statements and subsequently realize that they were not fully informed, or missed salient arguments and change their positions.  I think we can all respect those people but not those who blatantly lie and deny ever having thought differently.  While the Republicans made hay over Kerry's presumed flip-flopping.  Michael Moore could make a documentary on their lies alone.

DID CHRIS MATTHEWS REALLY APOLOGIZE TO CLINTON?

Chris Matthews went on air, reading an apology to Hillary Clinton. He reminded me of any child who has been scolded by his mother and forced to apologize. It carried that same tone of insincerity and self-justification. He spoke of, 'my heart speaks the truth' (unbiased, no doubt) 'because I love politics'. His heart may speak HIS truth but not THE truth. If he feels that was a sufficient apology to erase the vitriolic claim that Hillary became a Senator, not on her own political ability, but because people felt sorry for her because her husband 'messed around', he is mistaken. He has only managed to demean himself for having put that notion out in the first place. It is an analysis I have not heard from other entertainer/journalists.

Yet other negative nit-picking goes on. There are the blatant Hillary haters. For the persn who had to act tough, then was too tough so she showed her feelings, then we have the cries of the small men or jealous women. There are the real sick individuals who cannot think beyond the next word that comes out of their fantasy-filled minds. Is there anyone out there who can criticize Chelsea as a good parenting job done by two people working together? Apparently there are some who want to try to float stories with no evidence but believed by those who want so badly to believe the worst, even if there is no evidence for it. It makes me feel like Diogenes, He used to stroll about in full daylight with a lamp; when asked what he was doing, he would answer, "I am just looking for an honest man." You can read more on this interesting man here.

Like, Diogenes, I will continue my search though I have finally reached the conclusion I will not find him/her in the media.