It's not a lie that truth is relative

A columnist and longtime conservative says his latest commentary was written to warn about the consequences of a truth-free society. 

"This is something I spotted years ago when I was an editor for The Los Angeles Times," recalls Robert Knight, now a senior fellow at the American Civil Rights Union and a columnist for The Washington Times.

"It seemed that people weren't so concerned with getting at the truth," he says, "but in inventing their own truth as in the phrase, Well that may be true for you but it's not true for me, or That's your truth and I have my truth."

In the commentary, Knight sprinkled the column with examples: Hillary Clinton claiming the FBI director found no wrongdoing over her private email server; Michael Brown being described as an "unarmed teen," when he attacked a police officer; and the media failing to note that Donald Trump expressed his sympathy toward DNC speaker Khizr Khan over the loss of his son during their recent verbal fight.  

"Omitting key details is one way to like," Knight writes. He tells OneNewsNow that is dangerous. 

"This helps not only people who tear down our civilization but in the short run it helps the political because they sow confusion," he warns. "They say no one can really know what's going on and the whole time they're working to undermine the foundation of our society and replace it with something close to socialism."