Sergeant Joe Friday, played by Jack Webb in the TV series “Dragnet,” was famous as a police detective who would ask for “Just the facts, ma’am.” Of course, this fictional Los Angeles copper didn’t just interview women, but the quote became symbolic of his character and the series itself.
The reason I bring this up (dating myself, the series ran from 1951 to 1959) is that truth, or “just the facts,” is something sorely missing in modern American society, from the president on down. Donald Trump, of course, exaggerates everything, and if that doesn’t work, he just fabricates something. It must work. He got elected twice, and now he’s the most powerful person on earth.
The leftistas are even worse. They not only lie, but they unleash the goons and demons of society — and even pay them — to disrupt anything Trump tries to do. Even when the leftistas are in power, they lie about everything from the climate to taxes and gender (to name just a few) to seal their grip on eternal power. They’re simply taking a page or two out of Vladimir Lenin’s playbook in everything they do.
Even commercials on TV, most of which make me throw up, feature lie after lie, and if not outright lies, they obfuscate and twist reality. I can’t recall how many products I saw demonstrated on TV that I purchased and discovered they didn’t do squat, let alone clean a toilet bowl, or whatever I purchased them for. Those pain pill ads really get my blood boiling.
Of course, the 1950s had their share of duplicity. Jim Crow was alive and well, and if you wanted to see white supremacy, oh, yeah, it was there.
But “just the facts” would solve a lot of the conflicts our ruling elites create and foster for us.
POSTSCRIPT: At the beginning of each episode, the famous opening narration — copied many times since — told viewers: “”Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.” “Dragnet” was revived several times, in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
