Rudy Guiliani is spot on! The left has rejected the existence of objective truth and universal truth for years. (Anyone interested in the philisophical aspects of this can look up the term “postmodernism”. D.A. Carson’s “Gagging of God” provides a good description of how this viewpoint has permeated academia and our culture since the early 1990’s.)
Either objective or universal truth would imply a “truth giver”; i.e., God, which post modernists reject. Postmodernism is the philisophical foundation for multiculturalism. For if there is no universal truth, then we are in no position to judge other cultures. This follows since all truth, is relative to the individual, or at most to a particular culture.
Since truth is either “your” version of truth or “my” version of truth, then positing that Mueller can decide what truth is, is totally appropriate. This is exactly what got Scooter Libby in hot water. Libby recalled an event one way and a reporter recalled it quite differently. The prosecutor contended that the reporter’s recollection constituted “truth” and trundled Libby off to jail.
In this case, you have the MSM mocking Guiliani by appealing to the Modern view of truth. The Moderns, and most of society, believes in the existence of truth as an objective reality. Most people today toggle between the two viewpoints based on the argument at hand. It’s really rich for the leftist MSM to mock Guiliani along these lines.
The reporter later recanted her story, in part because one of Mueller’s BFF’s had committed misconduct, and admitted Scooter Libby had been truthful all along. Of course, that didn’t get him back his years in prison because of a “true lie.”
The very term “Postmodernism” has always struck me as academic, Orwellian news speak. I mean what can the word actually mean?
Modernism: a practice, usage, or expression peculiar to modern times
Modern: involving recent techniques, methods, or ideas : up-to-date modern methods of communication
Post: after : subsequent : later postdate
Postmodernism: of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one postmodern times a postmodern metropolis
How in the hell can something be post modern? Perhaps after the collapse of society? The zombie apocalypse? I just don’t get it.