Today’s song What is truth? by Johnny Cash is considered to be a Vietnam War protest song. Johnny wrote this song in 1970 during the war in Vietnam but does that make the song a protest song about the war? It seems today that a lot of singers say they had a Vietnam war protest song. A few years ago Mickey from Monkeys told whoever was interviewing him that The Monkeys had a Vietnam War protest song Mickey said it was Last Train To Clarksville the reporter wanted how was that song a protest song. Mickey said you know the part that says and I don’t know if I’m ever coming home well Mickey said that’s because he was headed for Vietnam. Well I’m really glad Mickey cleared that up, so the guy was taking the last train to Clarksville and then what I guess he then took the first train to Vietnam. Then there’s Glen Campbell and his big Vietnam War protest song “Galveston” In this song Glen “cleans his gun and dreams of Galveston” on a variety show he sang this song dressed in Army fatigues so I guess that settles that. But if you want to hear a real Vietnam War protest song I’ve already had one for one of my songs of the day. It’s a song few have heard it’s title is “Nineteen” scroll down and listen to it and maybe share it with Vietnam Vets you know and ask them how old were you when you went to serve in Vietnam? What is Truth asks a question that is ever bit as important today as it was in 1970.
President Jimmy Carter once said to the American people “I will never lie to you”. Just the other day President Trump said “I tell the truth, when I can”. No I’m not making this up as I go. The President of the United States said he only told the truth “when he could” What does that mean? Let’s look at one statement that he said so many times during the campaign that most Americans can recite this ” I’m having an audit and as soon the audit done, I’ll release my taxes. So is this one of those times when he can’t tell the truth? If he tells the truth “when he can” what’s keeping him from telling the truth here? Gerald Ford was the last person running for president who didn’t release his taxes, at least Ford didn’t lie about it but of coarse everyone remembers he also lost the election. And what do the Trump supporters say about his taxes? They are very clear that the truth does matter at all, that the President of the United States does not need be a man of his word. And those Trump supporters that call themselves “Christians” the Commandment that says “Thou shalt not bear false witness” means nothing just like that other Commandment “Thou shalt not commit adultery”. They have marked those out of their Bibles and they better get a new marker they
will need it if their going to follow Trump. Joseph Goebbels Hitler’s propaganda minister once said ” A lie retold once is still a lie. But a lie retold a thousand times becomes a truth. As you can see from Donald Trump quote it don’t take him but three times for a lie to become a truth. The Trump supporters will believe anything he says, well almost anything. Remember what President Trump said about the Caravan headed towards the Southern border the Trump supporters have repeated his lies millions of times on Face Book, they repeat how these are a lot of bad people rapists, murders just a bunch of really bad people. But very few if barely none at all are repeating the lie that there are people from the Middle East hiding in the caravan. Does anyone knows how those people from the Middle East arrived in Honduras did they take a very long swim? Or did they arrive in a rowboat? What I think is they had one of those transporters I saw in Star Trek and they were beamed to Honduras to join up with the caravan and then their plan was to walk over a thousand miles hiding in the caravan and then when they made it to the border they would throw rocks! Yes that’s a great plan! But it seems that the Trump supporters can’t even believe this part of the lie but that doesn’t stop them after all they stopped caring about the truth a long time ago. Do you ever wander what these Trump supporters tell their children when they ask about telling the truth? Do they tell them that the truth no longer matters that the truth is not important that the only thing that really matters is that you get your way. That’s Donald Trump’s message to their children and they will not go against anything that Donald Trump says. Even through Johnny Cash asked this question decades ago it seems a large portion of people today don’t ask don’t care What is Truth?