Louis Roney: The truth about untruths

“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free,” Jesus said. Truth is fact, and that is what it’s all about, isn’t it? Ever since Pontius Pilot asked Jesus, “What is truth?” human beings have been asking the same question. Seeking the absolute, we most often have to settle for the relative.

“There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.” — Agnes Repplier

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth,” said Vladimir Lenin, founder of Communism. Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister to Hitler’s Nazi party, invented the term, “The Big Lie, ” which purported that a lie repeated often enough will be believed.

“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.” — Mark Twain

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” — Winston Churchill

We ask a man who may be an atheist to place his hand on the Bible to guarantee that he is telling the truth. How often is a lie sold as the truth? Know any politicians? Too bad the truth is not always as useful as a lie, is it?

“I wish I could believe you,” we think when we hear statements that contain no promise of truth. How much of human unkindness is the product of lying? How much of human crime? How much of talk leading to war?

African-American writer Mychal Massie, former chairman of The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives, whose blog is titled The Daily Rant, does not seem in any way to be enthusiastic about President Obama’s veracity. An April 19, 2011, opinion piece on WND.com titled “When Will Obama Crack In Public?” states:

“…(The Obamas) are spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations, gala balls, resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House, grand date nights, golf, basketball, more golf, exclusive resorts and still more golf…. The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it’s so offensive when we hear Obama say, in order “to restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice – but we don’t have to sacrifice the America we believe in.”

Massie continues:

“…among the kinder rebukes being directed at Obama, and with people becoming less intimidated by his willingness to use race as a bludgeon, with falling poll numbers in every meaningful category and an increasingly aggressive tea-party opposition – how much longer before he cracks completely? …Possessed by a self-perceived palatine mindset, that in his mind places him above criticism, how long before he cracks in public? Can America risk a man with a documented track record of lying and misrepresenting truth as a basic way of life, who is becoming increasingly more contumelious?”

Steve McCann wrote an April 2011 piece on AmericanThinker.com titled “The Mendacity of Barack Obama”:

“After the speech the president delivered the 13th of April (2011) regarding the federal budget, one that was chock full of lies, deceit, and crass fear-mongering, it must be said that Barack Obama is the most dishonest, deceitful, and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed. That performance was the culmination of four years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media, including some in the conservative press and political class who are loath to call Mr. Obama what he is in the bluntest of terms: a liar and a fraud…. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character flaws his entire life, aided and abetted by the sycophants around him …”

Seems we are beginning to be told the truth about Barack Obama!