Watching the recent Obama/Romney debate brought to mind a YouTube video I saw of an old TV game show called “To Tell the Truth” where the emcee began by welcoming the audience “to our game of deliberate misrepresentation....”The 1957 clip I saw featured three contestants each claiming to be a letter carrier. Four panelists had the task of questioning the contestants to sift out the two imposters who were allowed to lie while the actual mail carrier was sworn to tell the truth. In the particular clip I viewed, all four panelists were hoodwinked by the two imposters and missed out on the real deal because they made assumptions and asked the wrong questions.
To Tell the Truth
By Susan Stamper Brown