From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Warnings... from Boys Crying Wolf
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:15:03 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: "WSFA (E-mail)" <WSFAList at WSFA.org>
Cc: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:41 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Warnings... from Boys Crying Wolf

> Keith...  Keith...  Keith...
> In a sidebar conversation, you expressed a wish for me to return to
> WSFA.  You have a peculiar way of making me feel welcome.
> I believe that your recent postings of urban legends have
> discredited Keith Lynch far more than they have discredited George Bush
or
> John Ashcroft.  If you really had doubts about the credibility of the
site
> in question before you posted it, you should not have posted it until you
> checked it out.  As it is, your after the fact reservations and
> protestations of concerns about my literary career sound like Dan Rather
> blustering when he was caught lying about George Bush's Air National
Guard
> service or _The New York Times_ pretending that their Iraqi munitions
story
> hasn't been proven false.
> Nor does repeating the same story over and over improve your case.
> I'm sure you've heard the cliche "If fifty million Frenchmen say a stupid
> thing, it's still a stupid thing."  (Voltaire, I believe.)  This is even
> truer if the fifty million Frenchmen say fifty million stupid things
fifty
> million times.
> I didn't bother to check out the site that Steve Smith posted
> recently because the last time that I checked out a political site that
> Steve posted, the site disproved Steve's contention.
> I hope that one day we can be friends and fellow Americans.

None is so blind as he who dismisses all reports he doesn't care to know
about as "urban legends."

--Ted White