Lying for Victory?

Did Hillary Clinton deplane in Bosnia under live fire? Evidently not, from this video -- so why did she say she did? If she is "sleep deprived," how can she handle being commander-in-chief?

Peggy Noonan hopes Hillary's lying, because if not, perhaps Hillary can't tell the difference between truth and falsehood?

Or are the roots deeper than that? Jonah Goldberg discusses the leftist idea of "lying for justice" in some detail in his recent book, Liberal Fascism.

The left is not overly enamored with the West and our enlightenment heritage, anyway. What I see in this "misstatement" and others like it is a repudiation of the western concept of truth. The idea that truth is what you observed actually happening is very Aristotelian, with roots in the Greek philosophical revolution going back before Athens became a power. But there are non-western concepts of truth that are very different.

If you read the Gospel of John, you can see why it is not a synoptic gospel. It doesn't give a synopsis of the life of Jesus. Saint John the Evangelist is a polemicist. If you were able to confront John and ask him whether the marriage at Cana miracle ever really happened, I maintain he would grab you by the collar and shout, "What are you worried about that for? The point is the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ!"

Which is one thing when we're talking about Him. But He also warned us to beware of false prophets who would deceive the very elect (Mark 13:22). I am prepared to put my faith in God, but not in any mere mortal.

What we've been seeing all along with the Clintons is the repudiation of the western idea that Truth is what you observe and the story has to be based on that. My values create a Narrative. Truth is only there to serve that Narrative. Observations and objective standards are irrelevant. The ends justify the means.